Recently, the Uganda Law Reform Commission organised a judges' meeting to discuss various proposed amendments in the current justice system aimed at removing bottlenecks in search of a speedy trial. Anthony Wesaka and Sheila Wamboga bring you the highlights of some of these laws to be amended in the Magistrates Court Act (MCA), 2007 (amended) and the Trial On Indictment Act (TIA), 2008. The MCA are the laws that govern proceedings in the magistrates court while TIA covers criminal proceedings in High Court. All these laws have been in existence for more than 50 years and need to be tailored to suit the prevailing social economic circumstances.
The government is in the process of reforming laws governing the conduct of civil and criminal matters so as to modernise the justice system and make the legal system competitive, affordable and result oriented. To achieve this, several steps have been taken. Read more
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