Judiciary revives Law Report
Feb 27, 2005
The Judiciary has revived the publication of Uganda Law Reports after 32 years in limbo.
By Anne Mugisa
The Judiciary has revived the publication of Uganda Law Reports after 32 years in limbo.
The commercial court reports will be published first, Chief Justice Benjamin Odoki said.
Odoki last week signed the Uganda Commercial Courts Law report Practice Direction No. 1 of 2005, authorising the preparation and publication of the Uganda Commercial law reports. The Uganda Law Reports were last published in 1973.
odoki was opening the newly-acquired legal resource centre for the Uganda Law Society at the Uganda Law Society (ULS) secretariat on Acacia Avenue in Kampala on Friday.
The centre is a multi-purpose complex where advocates will research and access the most authoritative legal cases and data, the ULS president, Moses Adriko, said.
He said the centre was installing computers and Internet so that paid up lawyers could access the data from their chambers.
Adriko also said the centre would monitor the work of advocates operating in Uganda. He said ULS intends to start distance learning at the centre in order to save the huge sums of money used by advocates on further studies abroad.
Odoki advised that the ULS uses the centre to improve services by reaching out to the community through provision of legal aid, advice and public legal education as a means of promoting social responsibility.
He said lawyers could access the commercial law reports which, he said, would contain significant decisions of a commercial nature delivered by the Commercial Court, the appellate Court of Appeal and the Supreme Courts.
Odoki said the Judiciary would also set up a council for law reporting, responsible for preparing and publishing law reports from the Courts of Judicature.
He said the judiciary was committed and would do everything in its power to safeguard its independence necessary for maintenance of the rule of law.
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The Judiciary has revived the publication of Uganda Law Reports after 32 years in limbo.
The commercial court reports will be published first, Chief Justice Benjamin Odoki said.
Odoki last week signed the Uganda Commercial Courts Law report Practice Direction No. 1 of 2005, authorising the preparation and publication of the Uganda Commercial law reports. The Uganda Law Reports were last published in 1973.
odoki was opening the newly-acquired legal resource centre for the Uganda Law Society at the Uganda Law Society (ULS) secretariat on Acacia Avenue in Kampala on Friday.
The centre is a multi-purpose complex where advocates will research and access the most authoritative legal cases and data, the ULS president, Moses Adriko, said.
He said the centre was installing computers and Internet so that paid up lawyers could access the data from their chambers.
Adriko also said the centre would monitor the work of advocates operating in Uganda. He said ULS intends to start distance learning at the centre in order to save the huge sums of money used by advocates on further studies abroad.
Odoki advised that the ULS uses the centre to improve services by reaching out to the community through provision of legal aid, advice and public legal education as a means of promoting social responsibility.
He said lawyers could access the commercial law reports which, he said, would contain significant decisions of a commercial nature delivered by the Commercial Court, the appellate Court of Appeal and the Supreme Courts.
Odoki said the Judiciary would also set up a council for law reporting, responsible for preparing and publishing law reports from the Courts of Judicature.
He said the judiciary was committed and would do everything in its power to safeguard its independence necessary for maintenance of the rule of law.
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