If courts listen to noises outside a case, taxpayers won’t be punished
Whatever law reform programmes we have had, none has addressed the rule of sub judice to which has the effect of excluding contribution of people who have not been called as witnesses yet may have useful information that could save legal justice from becoming a farce. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGA
Uganda’s Chief Justice Bart Katureebe must be a sad man. Katureebe is a good man in a not-so-good system. He’s retiring with an impeccable service record, having made considerable contribution to the country’s Judiciary. Among his tangible contributions in his half a decade at the helm of the Judiciary, he has spearheaded digitising the case management process to speed up justice delivery. For even us laymen know that justice delayed is justice denied.
Sadly, Katureebe leaves when the perception that legal justice in Uganda is for the rich and the mighty still reigns high.
