Daily Monitor
Saturday May 15 2021
Justice Christopher Izama Madrama. The Court of Appeal/ Constitutional Court judge, has made rulings often cited at law school. PHOTO | FILE
Summary
Justice Christopher Izama Madrama found his niche in commercial law, but having now spent three years at the Court of Appeal, which doubles as the Constitutional Court, the judge has reinvented himself as an all-rounder. He has penned lead judgements in several constitutional petitions,
Derrick Kiyonga writes.
In developed countries, intellectual property is taken so seriously that in 1999, the United States Court of Appeal, 11 circuit, ruled that the estate of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr, who was assassinated in 1968, was vested with the copyrights of his famous speech, ‘I have a dream’.
Inside fallout at Supreme Court
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Why Owiny-Dollo declined to step down in Bobi poll case
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Daily Monitor
Wednesday March 17 2021
Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo and NUP party president Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine. PHOTOS/FILE/ABUBAKER LUBOWA
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Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo will on Thursday give reasons why he declined to step aside from the hearing of the presidential election petition in which former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine was challenging President Museveni s victory through the January 14 polls.
Mr Male Mabirizi, a lawyer, had filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking Chief Justice Owiny-Dollo to withdraw from hearing the presidential election petition against Mr Museveni on account of ‘conflict of interests’.
In a ruling notice issued yesterday, the Supreme Court registrar said that Court will deliver a detailed ruling on an application for Recusal filed by Mr Male Mabirizi.