Lawyers to elect new president

Apr 24, 2015

Hours to election of the Uganda Law Society (ULS) president, legal brains are making final lobby. Lawyers convene tomorrow (Saturday) in Entebbe to elect new office bearers after a two-year tenure led by Ruth Sebatindira. She was elected in April 2013.


By Edward Anyoli

Hours to election of the Uganda Law Society (ULS) president, legal brains are making final lobby.


Lawyers convene tomorrow (Saturday) in Entebbe to elect new office bearers after a two-year tenure led by Ruth Sebatindira. She was elected in April 2013.

The ULS regulations require that the Annual General Meeting should be presided over by the society’s president or his vice before an election is conducted.

According to one of the members, unlike previous elections, Saturday’s elections are supposed to be conducted through a secret ballot.

The outgoing president Sebatindira’s election was characterised by a controversy.A City a lawyer Simon Tendo  had  challenged the exercise.

Kabenge shortly after Sebatindira’s election petitioned the High Court on grounds that her election as ULS president had been flawed.Kabenge had claimed that there was a breached of the statutory provision of the law governing the elections.

Some of the past presidents of the Uganda Law Society are: Moses Adriko, James Mukasa Sebugenyi and Bruce Kyerere.

 

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