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When the Constitution Loses Its Teeth: A Lament After Faruku
Imagine your son leaves home to go to the farm. He never returns. Days become weeks. Weeks become months. You move from police station to police station looking for him. Nobody tells you where he is. Nobody tells you what he has done. Nobody tells you when he will come home. Then one morning, somebody…
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THE DIGITAL JUSTICE CROSSROADS: REFLECTIONS FROM THE ECCMIS SYMPOSIUM
Dear Colleagues, A court file can disappear. A server can crash. A network cable can be cut. Yet justice must still move. That, in many ways, was the question hanging over the inaugural ECCMIS Symposium that I recently attended as a member of the Judiciary Affairs Committee of the Uganda Law Society, a technology enthusiast,…
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Chronicles of His Worship Mulyanyama — Episode 4
When the Accused Becomes an Ornament A procedure that turns courts into shrines of injustice, where freedom is a fairy tale and land is lost Author’s Note: The Chronicles of His Worship Mulyanyama is a serialized literary commentary designed to constructively critique the institutional and structural implications of the Magistrates Courts (Amendment) Act, No. 6…
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Chronicles of His Worship Mulyanyama — Episode 3
When “Just Cause” Entered the Registry Author’s Note: The Chronicles of His Worship Mulyanyama is a serialized literary commentary designed to constructively critique the institutional and structural implications of the Magistrates Courts (Amendment) Act, No. 6 of 2026. This work is a creative exploration of the human infrastructure behind public service and is not intended…
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Chronicles of His Worship Mulyanyama — Episode II
The Mobile Court That Ate the Diary Author’s Note: The Chronicles of His Worship Mulyanyama is a serialized literary commentary designed to constructively critique the institutional and structural implications of the Magistrates Courts (Amendment) Act, No. 6 of 2026. This work is a creative exploration of the human infrastructure behind public service and is not…
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Chronicles of His Worship Mulyanyama — Episode I
The Magistrate Who Never Carried Lunch Author’s Note: The Chronicles of His Worship Mulyanyama is a serialized literary commentary designed to constructively critique the institutional and structural implications of the Magistrates Courts (Amendment) Act, No. 6 of 2026. This work is a creative exploration of the human infrastructure behind public service and is not intended…
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THE QUIET VIOLENCE OF PROCEDURE III: When the System Sleeps, Justice Goes to Luzira. Reflections on ECCMIS, Offline Caching, and the Agony of an Unprepared Court
I. Gethsemane, 33 AD There is a moment in the Gospel of Mark that haunts every leader, every judge, every system builder. Jesus goes to the Garden of Gethsemane to pray. He takes Peter, James, and John. He is sorrowful, troubled, facing the cross. He asks them to stay awake, to watch with him. Then…
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Of Gold, Dairy, and Slow Poison: Elison Karuhanga and the Perils of Development Without Accountability
There is a seductive danger in confusing development with institutional health. Yes, Uganda has grown sectors.Yes, milk production rose.Yes, roads were built.Yes, factories emerged. Let us even grant these achievements at their most generous interpretation, though many of the surrounding statistics and political narratives remain fiercely contested. The deeper question lies elsewhere. Ancient empires also…
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THE QUIET VIOLENCE OF PROCEDURE II: When Courts Resist Communication in the Age of E-Justice, A Reflection on Bakampa Brian Baryaguma v Bbaaka Property Consultants (U) Ltd
There is another kind of quiet violence in procedure. Not when the law assumes communication where none exists.But when communication eventually occurs, and the law still struggles to recognise its procedural legitimacy because it arrived through unfamiliar technological form. Days ago, in my earlier critique, The Quiet Violence of Procedure: When Digital Service Serves No…