{"id":13868,"date":"2025-02-20T17:16:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=13868"},"modified":"2025-02-20T17:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:39:12","slug":"electricity-disputes-tribunal-promotes-alternative-disputes-resolution-to-settle-electricity-conflicts-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/electricity-disputes-tribunal-promotes-alternative-disputes-resolution-to-settle-electricity-conflicts-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity Disputes Tribunal Promotes Alternative Disputes Resolution To Settle Electricity Conflicts In Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Zulfah Namatovu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Entebbe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development has constituted the Electricity Disputes Tribunal and encouraged Ugandans  to embrace the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) strategy to settle electricity conflicts in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ministry\u2019s Permanent Secretary, Eng. Pauline Irene Bateebe in her speech read for her by Dennis Kaggwa ,while at the Electricity Disputes Tribunal workshop in Kampala said that as Uganda\u2019s electricity generation capacity grows, more power transmission and distribution networks will be required and the construction of the networks will bring more disputes such as breach of contracts, licensing, environmental among others .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She said there is therefore need for Ugandans to find  amicable ways to resolve electricity related disputes and or conflicts in the country .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Batebe  applauded the Electricity Disputes Tribunal (EDT) for engaging the stakeholders including  lawyers as the energy sector is experiencing significant growth and transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u201cAs the ministry of energy strives to meet the increasing demand for energy there is need to ensure an effective method to resolve disputes\u201d Batebe emphasized .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silvia Cheptoris ,the registrar at the Electricity Disputes Tribunal, said that ADR is being promoted because it is not only faster in resolving disputes but less costly. She explained that ADR handles specifically mediation or arbitration depending on which alternative is applicable on a specific case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201cUsing the ADR method, the ministry of energy has concluded 12 big cases in January and the cases resolved by the electricity Disputes Tribunal could affect the litigants if they were to wait longer or follow the formal hearing of these cases hence need to bring on lawyers and other stakeholders to be trained in ADR\u201d Cheptoris said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christine Birabwa Nsubuga from the Practice Conflict Center noted that Alternative Dispute Resolution has been practiced in Uganda even before the coming of the colonialists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe future is ADR, where Uganda came from was ADR now what is being done is to restate ADR in Uganda so that we don\u2019t spend a lot of time in court and also reduce the case backlog\u201d,she stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor: msserwanga@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Zulfah Namatovu In Entebbe The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development has constituted the Electricity Disputes Tribunal and encouraged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/uet.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7301,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/new-members-of-the-electricity-disputes-tribunal-inducted\/","url_meta":{"origin":13868,"position":0},"title":"New Members of the Electricity Disputes Tribunal Inducted","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"November 16, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"By Gloria Kembabazi The new members of Uganda\u2019s Electricity Disputes Tribunal (EDT) have been officially inducted at an event presided over\u00a0 by the judge of the High Court of Uganda His Lordship Justice Musa Ssekaana. 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