ABSTRACT Petroleum extraction is a lucrative source of tax revenue for many governments endowed with the oil resource. However, the design, development and implementation of legal and Fiscal regimes will determine whether a government maximises revenue from the oil resource and yet at the same time remain attractive to private investment This thesis has reviewed the laws and fiscal regime governing the upstream oil sector in Uganda with specific emphasis on taxation and revenue sharing. Follo...
ABSTRACT The study focused an examThation of the concept ofpresident/al immunity under international law. Presidents who commits grave crñnes are chargeable under International Law with all the evil and horrors they have committed Although the ICC analyzed this i~sue of h~nmunity and concluded that the presidents do not possess personal immunity before the ICC for their acts, customary international law recognL~es certain ~degrees of immunity from criminal prosecution for heads of state and ...
ABSTRACT Multinational Oil Corporations (MOCs) are oil prospecting and mining industries with different subsidiaries in joint venture agreement with State owned Oil Companies in different regions of the world. In Nigeria, the activities of these MOCs are most prominent in oil producing communities in the Niger Delta Region. The MOCs operating in Nigeria have impaired the environment of the host communities through negative oil exploration activities resulting in oil pollution that led to incr...
ABSTRACT War is gradually taking the front burner in international politics. In some case peaceful resolution of a crisis is possible and fully exploited to achieve peace and order in a state. However, where such attempt to resolve crisis fails, skirmishes and clashes may snowball into war. The impact of war on human population has invariably been sanguinary, devastating and catastrophic. Sometimes, the population of a nation is completely extirpated through bloody massacre geared towards the...
ABSTRACT The debate about whether economic and social rights can be or should be adjudicated and enforced by courts or other bodies in Nigeria has been on-going since the 1960s when the rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) were divided into two separate covenants. One contained economic, social and cultural rights; while civil and political rights were set out in the other. In the light of this, can it cogently be argued that the International Covenant on Economic, Socia...
ABSTRACT Uganda announced the discovery ofcommercially viable amounts ofoil deposits in 2006. This was followed by much jubilation as oil is expected to uplift Uganda’s economy from fangs of poverty and transform her economic development. Howeveri the discovery ofoil has occurred within the Albertine Rjft region, which is one ofthe richest biodiversity hotspots. Unfortunately, at the time the oil exploration starte4 Uganda did not have the requisite law and Personnel with requisite technica...
ABSTRACT The major purpose of the study was examining risk management in the Oil and gas companies facing a myriad of risks in today's global marketplace especially in Uganda using Tullow oil as a case. The risks range from volatile commodity price~ which are less linked to basic supply and demand but more to global socio-economic factors, to increased health, safety and environmental pressures. These are just few examples of the serious risks and threats that can impact oil and gas companies...
ABSTRACT This research work examined the enforceability of human rights norms in environmental protection. And critically reviews the functionality of human rights law in environmental protection and how it can be made to drive enforceability in order to reduce the impact of environmental stressors. The work treats the legal literature and theory of Environmental law and Human rights –and factors of enforcement of human rights law in Nigeria .It establishes that several theories have emerge...
ABSTRACT The evolution of the concept of corporate criminal liability of corporations is characterized by relentless struggles of the judiciary to overcome the problem of assigning criminal blame to fictional entities. Initially, a corporation was considered to be an entity devoid of a person in the strict sense; therefore, criminal guilt was considered to be quite difficult to establish in cases of aberrations of criminal nature by it. The principle of vicarious liability instead of criminal...
ABSTRACT This study explored an overview of the legal regime for oil revenue in Uganda which intended to help the people of Uganda and government to üriplement their expectations from oil. This requires putting in place new legislations for oil and gas administration and management of petroleum revenues. This research provides details on how the anticj~ated revenues shall be managed and integrated into the existing government systems with a view of miti~qating the overall impact of these rev...
ABSTRACT In Uganda, land use continues to change over time. Land use and forestry governance have continued to influence each other. There is increasing xiv public attention and debate about land tenure and forest degradation, privatization, and encroachment on land, and forest governance in Uganda. Poor governance is one of the main reasons for the decline of forest resources. This thesis is from a study that looked at land use and forestry governance in parts of central Uganda. The research...
This article simply examines the Pensions Reform Act 2014 and applicability to individuals and organization in Nigeria. It goes further to discuss the guidelines and procedure to register under a micro pension plan provided for under the Act. It concludes by emphasizing that smaller organizations can participate under the via a micro pension plan.
Abstract Bank fraud, defalcation and forgeries have unprecedented prepositions and dimensions in the banking industry. Fraud in Ugandan is epidemic and has its root firmly entrenched in the social setting1 . A report of the Uganda Bankers Association indicates that albeit the good performance of the financial system in supporting the economy through intermediation and operation of the payment system, the financial sector faces the problem of bank fraud which unfortunately is on the increase. ...
ABSTRACT This study examined aspects of sexual violence in the North and South Kivu provinces of DRC during armed conflict. Literature was reviewed based on the various sub themes; in all its aspects it alluded to sexual violence as a practice that emanates from unequal power relations and discrimination between men and women in all spheres of life. The study employed a descriptive study design with a triangulation of qualitative methods of data collection and analysis. The qualitative method...
ABSTRACT In Burundi, corporate governance is a new concept in the legal perspective; we find a poor legal system and reluctance to enforce the laws. The end result is that we find many companies in a bad position and in their downfall, they also involve banks that give them debts which they are unable to repay. The main objective of this study is to analyze whether the laws governing bank financing can, in one way or another, influence the way corporate governance is done in companies. What...