Uganda: Lawyers Join Judges' Strike

Kampala — LAWYERS announced yesterday that they would go on a three-day strike the very minute the judges, who are on a week long strike, decide to re-open the courts.

At a meeting called to discuss the breakdown of the rule of law in Uganda, lawyers under their umbrella organisation, the Uganda Law Society, unanimously resolved to lay down their tools.

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