Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development has issued a directive outlining new requirements for land transactions involving executors and administrators of estates.
Court of Appeal holds that it is illegal for an employer to terminate an employment contract under the guise of redundancy if the conditions for the termination—as set out in the employer’s human resource manual—are not followed.
On 30th July 2014, the Appellant’s contract with his Employer was terminated and in April 2015, he lodged a complaint with the labour officer citing unfair termination under Section 69 of the Employment Act 2006 and in that same complaint requested that the matter be referred to the Industrial Court since it raised a substantial question of law and the same was referred to the said Court.
Industrial Court finds informal discussions about an employee’s performance not to amount to a disciplinary hearing and called for minimum standards of natural justice in disciplinary procedure. The Court held a termination based on such discussions to amount to unlawful dismissal and awarded Shillings One Billion in damages.
A public interest organisation has sued government challenging the legality of Rural Electrification fund established by the Minister of Energy and Mineral development.
Concerned political and religious leaders from Acholi sub region have run to court challenging the presidential directive to lease out Aswa Ranch to private entities and persons as free public land.
Following the promulgation of Article 237 of the 1995 Constitution of Uganda, there is no public land in Uganda except the land held by Government and local government in public interest following conditions governing such acquisition, and land held in trust for the people for the common good of all citizens.
Uganda’s labour disputes law was amended in 2020 and came into force on July 23, 2021. The amendments strengthen the Industrial Court with more judges (and panels) and the powers, tenure, and conditions of service of the court’s judges (and registrars) have been made similar to that of judicial officers in the High Court.
The UK has promised to pass legislation that will protect and promote trade with developing countries. To do this however, the legislation has to be similar to the EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences. Yet you only need to watch the highly partisan Brexit debates in the House of Commons to realize that such legislation will probably never see the light of day.
Uganda’s journey towards the enactment of a Competition Law has been one marred by laxity and a reactionary attitude. Although the country is a member to regional blocs that do provide for such trade legal regimes, that is, Comesa and EAC, there exists no national competition legal regime.
Lands ministry requires identification of parties in land transactions—as vendor and purchaser are to appear before the Registrar in respect of land transfers, and likewise a caveator or mortgagor in respect of releases of any kind.
The Succession (Amendment) Bill, 2021 seeks to accord equal rights between men and women under the succession law in terms of domicile, property, residential holdings, maintenance, guardianship, etc. and address the lacuna in the law in the aftermath of the 2007 decision in Law Advocacy for Women in Uganda v. Attorney General
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