Edmond Babalanda

ASSOCIATE, DISPUTE RESOLUTION DEPARTMENT, ALP UGANDA

Practice Areas

Short Biography

Edmond Babalanda is an emerging ligation lawyer whose practice covers civil litigation, corporate & commercial transactions, debt recovery, real estate, and Public Interest litigation as well as legal advisory and prosecution of fraud and financial crimes, human rights enforcements, administrative law, employment disputes, immigration & relocation, and alternative dispute resolution (ADR).

Top Matters

  • Part of a team partnering with an International Organization to provide legal advisory and legal representation to Refugees and asylum seekers across the country.
  • Offered legal assistance and legal representation to clients in labour disputes and workers’ compensation matters before labour officers and courts.
  • Participating in ongoing constitutional petitions challenging various provisions of the law which are inconsistent with the Uganda constitution.
  • Part of the team handling a Human rights enforcement matter challenging the mandatory requirement of national IDs as a precondition condition to access social welfare services.
  • Part of the team providing legal support in prosecuting financial crimes and fraud in companies.

Professional Qualifications and Memberships

    • Bachelor of Laws (LLB) (Hons), Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU)
    • Diploma in Legal practice (Dip LP), Law Development Centre*
    • Member, Uganda Law Society
    • Member, East Africa Law Society.

    *Distinction (First Class)

Mediation Services

The ALP Conflict Resolution Hub Mediation Service provides the most advanced global rules intended to assist parties and mediators to take maximum advantage of the flexible procedures available in mediation for the resolution of disputes quickly and economically.
The Mediation Service guides parties that opt for Dispute Management Clauses in their project contracts wherein the parties to the contract can jointly appoint a mediator to work together, in a more collaborative and mutually beneficial environment and oversee that their contracts proceed smoothly.

Arbitration Services

The ALP Conflict Resolution Hub Arbitration Service is based on the most efficient Arbitration Rules which help the parties and arbitrator to use the best available global practice for the resolution of domestic and international disputes quickly and economically by way of administered arbitration on global standards.
Additionally, the Arbitration Service provides for the appointment of emergency arbitrators, which allows the parties in need of emergency interim reliefs to make such applications even before the constitution of the regular arbitral tribunal.

Conciliation Services

The ALP Conflict Resolution Hub Conciliation Service provides an impartial, fast and effective conciliation operating to a uniformly high standard in both the public and private sector.
Participation in the Conciliation Service processes is voluntary, and so are the outcomes.Solutions are reached only by consensus whether by negotiation and agreements facilitated between the parties themselves or by the parties agreeing to settlement terms proposed by the Hub Conciliation Officer who treats as confidential all information received during the course of conciliation and the service is informal and non-legalistic in practice.

Ombudsman Services

The ALP Conflict Resolution Hub Ombudsman Service is a confidential, impartial and informal service that facilitates the resolution of disputes. A Hub Ombudsman helps parties analyze problems and assists in identifying options and can, only if requested, become involved in trying to resolve issues.
What’s more, the Hub Ombudsman Service alert managements to systemic trends and issues and makes recommendations for necessary changes in their fields.