ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND THE LEGAL CHALLENGES OF URBAN PLANNING. AN ANALYSIS OF COMPLIANCE WITH NEMA IN MBALE CITY.
The study delved into establishing how Mbale city has protected the environment thereby complying with the mandate given to NEMA in the wake of urban planning .This paper thus principally focused on how the environment especially in relation to protection of water catchment areas, waste management, pollution, forestry has been protected in Mbale city in the wake of urban planning and development. The study was driven by three objectives the first examining the legal and regulatory framewor...
Analysis of the Efficacy of the Application of Summary Procedure Against the Ugandan Government
The study will map out the aspect of summary procedure against the Ugandan government. Trial as a rule must precede judgment but under summary procedure there is a judgment and never a trial. For long the government and scheduled corporations were protected from summary procedure until judicial activism opened the flood gates permitting summary suits to be brought against the scheduled corporations. This study will trace the growth and development of the use of summary procedure in the expedi...
Land Evictions and the Quest for Land Justice in Uganda
Land in Uganda is the most important natural resource. Had the British not colonized Uganda may be the Ugandan land administration policy would be different and issues of land evictions would not have been an issue. The 1900 Buganda Agreement had far future resounding impacts that continue to be felt till now. Land evictions being one of those. The agreement disposed the lay people off their land who became squatters in their own land. The land Act of 1998 as amended whereas it introduced the...