{"id":5754,"date":"2022-05-26T12:41:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T12:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=5754"},"modified":"2022-05-26T12:41:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T12:41:39","slug":"president-museveni-appoints-16-acting-high-court-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/president-museveni-appoints-16-acting-high-court-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESIDENT MUSEVENI APPOINTS 16 ACTING HIGH COURT JUDGES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

President Yoweri Museveni has appointed 16 High Court Judges in acting capacity for at least two years . This is the highest number of High Court judges appointed by the President to deal with the increasing number of cases and backlog in the judiciary . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among those appointed are private legal practitioners , magistrates and legal officers in the government Ministries , Departments and Agencies (MDAs). Among the appointees is Mr. George Okello- a Commissioner at the Uganda Revenue Authority who was in charge of litigation .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list also has some of the youngest appointees -in their early 40s meaning they will serve on the bench for a longtime to come .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The appointments are as follows;
APPOINTMENTS BY H.E. THE PRESIDENT AS ACTING JUDGES
OF THE HIGH COURT FOR 2 (TWO) YEARS
NO. NAME CATEGORY GENDER<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. HW. IKIT MARY JUDICIARY F<\/li>
  2. HW. SINGIZA KAREKONA
    DOUGLAS
    JUDICIARY M<\/li>
  3. HW. MATOVU NASSUNA
    FLAVIA-
    JUDICIARY F<\/li>
  4. HW. SAMUEL EMOKOR- JUDICIARY M<\/li>
  5. HW. SUSAN KANYANGE- JUDICIARY F<\/li>
  6. NAMANYA BERNARD -PRIVATE PRACTICE M<\/li>
  7. PATRICIA KAHINGI- PRIVATE PRACTICE F<\/li>
  8. OCAYA THOMAS OJELERUBANGA- PRIVATE PRACTICE M<\/li>
  9. CHRISTINE KAAHWA- MDA F<\/li>
  10. PATRICIA MUTESI -MDA F<\/li>
  11. OKELLO GEORGE- MDA M<\/li>
  12. BUKIRWA FARIDAH SHAMILAH -MDA F<\/li>
  13. MAGALA HARRIET GRACE -PRIVATE PRACTICE F<\/li>
  14. ACELLAM COLLINS -PRIVATE PRACTICE M<\/li>
  15. NAGAWA CELIA -MDA F<\/li>
  16. NSHIMYE ALLAN PAULMBABAZI -PRIVATE PRACTICE M<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    President Yoweri Museveni has appointed 16 High Court Judges in acting capacity for at least two years . This is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5755,"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":[192,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/m7.webp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9493,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/president-museveni-has-appointed-11high-court-judges-and-six-registrars\/","url_meta":{"origin":5754,"position":0},"title":"President Museveni Has Appointed 11High Court Judges And Six Registrars","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"July 19, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"As the good relationship between the Executive and the Judicial arms of government continue to blossom President Museveni\u00a0has yet again \u00a0appointed another 11 new acting Justices of the High Court of Uganda that will bring the total number of serving judges to 81. 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