Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum

Jul 13, 2015

PERENNIAL LACK OF QUORUM MEANS CONSTITUTIONAL COURT FAILS IN ITS OBLIGATION TO HEAR CASES IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST EXPEDITIOUSLY

Seven years after filing a Constitutional Court petition challenging a provision of the Equal Opportunities Commission Act, 2007, the Constitutional Court has once again failed to raise the necessary quorum to hear the case of Jjuuko Adrian v. Attorney General, (Constitutional Petition No. 1 of 2009) that was first filed on 5th January 2009. The case challenges the constitutionality of Section 15(6)(d) of the Equal Opportunities Commission Act (EOCA) as the Section has the effect of stopping the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) from investigating matters of discrimination against marginalised groups on the basis that their behaviours are immoral or socially unacceptable to the majority of cultural groupings in Uganda.

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