UCLF Board and management paid a courtesy visit to the Principal Judge of Uganda, Hon. Justice Flavian Zeija. Key issues on access to Justice, legal aid and addressing corruption in the Justice Law and Order sector were discussed. UCLF pledges to support the Judiciary in dispensing justice to Ugandans at all levels and commits to
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We managed to settle an issue with the Rural Electrification Agency and the people of Kamwenge district who had not been compensated by the said Agency. Our client Mr. Tumukunde Deo approached our office on behalf of his elderly parents seeking compensation from the Rural electrification Agency which had constructed two electricity lines and a
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There was a land wrangle that had bitterly divided two brothers Ocira Alex and Moro John for over 4 years. The two could not share anything in common, neither could they talk to each other. The land in question is 118 acres. Ocira Alex wanted to use it alone to the exclusion of his brother
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Sophia’s late husband had left behind a will having distributed different pieces of land to his children and wife. Her share had been sold fraudulently by her son, KIKUNDI JUMA to ASABA Joseph who even after refunding his money ignored picking his money. Sophia for 4 years had moved to different offices, individuals, right from
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Bulitomwe Nelson and Kalhungula Wilson were residents of Bwera sub-county (Nyakabale village and Muhindi villages respectively). After completing a course in wild life conservation, Nelson got support from friends from Canada to empower the wild life affected villages in the community against poaching by giving them some small income generating projects. They later started constructing
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Bahighene Betty aged 38 years a resident of Kinyabwamba village, Kistwamba sub county was charged with an offence of Aggravated Defilement of the one Muhindo Roney aged 2 and a half years. Something she claimed did not do. She stated thus, ‘‘I went to rent a house in Kanyatsi and found a lady (Kabatooro) with
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On the 28th March 2017 a UCLF Paralegal Helen Candiru attached to Wandegeya police station while attending a suspect’s parade, found one female suspect by names Twikiriza Judith being charged with offence of Infanticide contrary to the Penal Code Act, Laws of Uganda. She told the paralegal her story that followed it up with the
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Ugandan schoolboy Tumusiime Henry was 15 when he was accused of murder the first time. While he waited almost two years for the trial to begin he was accused of a second murder. But then he met an American lawyer who slowly realised it was up to him to come to the rescue of an
read moreJessica Nasiwa reported to UCLF that her mother who at the time of her death had been in an Islamic marriage with another man. That man had bought a plot of land for her and her children and they had lived on it together for 20 years. Towards the time of her death, her husband
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