Stabit Advocates Uganda

19/05/2023

This will help to reduce the increasing abuse of children not only in darkness but also on social media

27/07/2022

17/03/2021

Judicial recuse/recusal. this is a term that has been used in the recently withdrawn presidential election petition between president yoweri kaguta tibuhaburwa museveni of nrm party and Nup's Robert kyagulanyi sentamu. Both male mabirizi and Robert kyagulanyi sentamu requested the chief justice CJ Alphonse owinyi Dollo to recuse himself from the matter on a basis of bias.

JUDICIAL RECUSAL IS A PROCESS THROUGH WHICH A JUDICIAL OFFICER EXCUSES HIMSELF OR HERSELF FROM HEARING A PARTICULAR MATTTER BECAUSE OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST OR BIAS IN RELATION TO A PARTY, ADVOCATE,WITNESS OR OTHER RELATED MATTER.

20/07/2020

Greetings to y'all, please read about our managing partner's opinion on the impact of COVID-19 on Mergers transactions.

By Seyiga Abdullswabul The “If you can’t beat me, join me” maxim seems to have been embraced by a growing number of companies in the recent past in the Ugandan economy. In a bid to beat the market and to pursue bigger market plans, companies are merging and ascending to unbeatable hybrids in U...

25/06/2019

It's a fundamental principle of ugandan law which must be strictly adhered to, "one is innocent until proven guilty"

04/12/2018

The best litigants are those that will make the witness give them answers they intend to get out of them. It is very important for all litigants to master the art of cross examination.

THERE IS ALWAYS HUMOUR & INTRIGUE IN CROSS EXAMINATION.

By Kampala Law Monthly Magazine Team.

In a suit for recovery for the price of a carpet sold a witness testified the details of the transaction as there was no written contract.
Q - But there was no written agreement for the sale of a carpet?
A - Well you don't have a written agreement when you buy a loaf of bread either, do you?
Q - But you don't cover the floor with a loaf of bread, do you?
A - Neither do you eat a carpet, do you?

Some very important rules.

Never take your eyes from that of the witness. It is a channel of communication from mind to mind the loss of which nothing can compensate.

Be not regardless of the voice of the witness. Next to the eye, this is perhaps the best interpreter of the mind.

Be mild to the mild - shrewd with crafty - confiding with the honest - merciful to the young, frail or the fearful - rough to the ruffian and thunder-bolt to the liar.

Like a skilful chess player, in every move, fix your mind upon the combination and relations of the game - Partial and temporary success may otherwise end in total and remediless defeat.

In a cross examination, every question that does not advance your cause, injures it.

IN a case a Police officer testified that a boy accused of a minor offence was in his opinion, insane.
Q - You mean he is non -compose mentis?
A by policeman - I don't think I understand.
Q - What you don't know the meaning of non-compose mentis? How many years have you been in service.
A - 25 years.
Q - A policeman for 25 years and you don't know what non-compose mentis is?
A - If I knew that kind of language I wouldn't be a policeman.

Source –
Read Lord Brampton, ‘What are some of the best Cross – examination ever conducted in the world.
(1) Paul Brown's Principles about Cross Examination.
(2) Sarkar on Evidence.
(3) Cross Examination - Orient Law House.
(4) The Art of Cross Examination - P. Ramnath Aiyyar.