Uganda: Anti-Corruption Court Opens After Seven Months

31 December 2013

The Constitutional court ruled on December 20 that the Anti-Corruption was legally constituted. Set up in 2009 by the then Chief Justice Benjamin Odoki, the court had been stopped in June, following a legal challenge by lawyer Davis Wesley Tusingwire, who argued that magistrates were serving in the court illegally.

However, the Constitutional court ruled by four to one, that magistrates were legally placed in the High court by Justice Odoki. Ruling for the majority, Justices Remmy Kasule, Geoffrey Kiryabwire, Lillian Tibatemwa and Solomy Balungi Bossa, agreed with the defence, that Odoki had the right to place magistrates in the High court.

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