At the conclusion of this year’s annual judges’ conference, the judges jointly resolved not to entertain any form of cyber bullying by errant lawyers and court users as they go about adjudicating.
Daily Monitor
Monday April 05 2021
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A human rights watchdog company has petitioned the Supreme Court challenging staying the implementation of the late lawyer Bob Kasango’s Constitutional Court orders.
Key to orders was that judges should first resign their judicial assignments before taking up the Executive/ constitutional postings.
Legal Brains Trust Ltd in its application filed before the Supreme Court last Thursday said the same court mechanically passed the ruling to stay the implementation in Kasango judgment.
The company wants the same ruling set aside, among other requests.
“The ruling contravened known principals upon which applications for interim orders are granted in constitutional matters. When I saw the coram on the cause-list, I realised that the 2015 constitutional amendment, which requires seven justices of the Supreme Court to be empaneled in appeals from the Constitutional Court, had not been complied with,” Ms Isabella Nakiyonga, one of t