CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0. Introduction. This study is an investigation of the legal and customary impacts of divorce on women and children in Uganda. The study will explore the problems that divorcees (women) and the children of these families are faced with and interventions that have been employed to address the trauma that they are faced with. This chapter will present the background to the study, the statement of the problem, the purpose of the study, the objectives of the study, the...
ABSTRACT A digital signature provides information regarding the sender of an electronic document. It provides data integrity, thereby allowing data to remain in the same state in which it was transmitted. Here the most widely used type of cryptography is the public key, where the sender is assigned two keys, one public, and another private key. The original message is encrypted using a public key while the recipient of the message requires a private key to decrypt the message. Then the rec...
CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction Recognition of duty between spouses began a long time ago. This led to the development of fiduciary spousal duties 1 • The husband because of his management and control over the community propetty naturally occupied the position of a trustee for a wife and the family2 As such, based on the historical and traditional notions he was deemed the head of the family and tasked with the responsibility of executing important mandates on behalf of the family. Particular...
ABSTRACT The research on the role of the police is presented in the following study that was under taken to reveal the stand of the police's role in the administration of criminal justice in Uganda from the colonial time it was formed to the present. The study is divided into two (2) sections in which section one introduced us to the role played by a democratic police institution, gave us a background of the study, problem statement, objective of the study, research hypothesis, the research...
CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction This chapter presents the introduction of the study, the background of the study, the statement of the problem, the purpose of the study, research objectives, research questions, scope of the study, significance of the study, methodology and literature review and organization layout. 1.1 Background to the Study The concept of Khadi Courts is strongly believed that Assyrians and Sumerians from Iraq, where earliest civilization of the world arose found their way to...
ABSTRACT The concept of lifting the veil of incorporation has a really been misunderstood for a great period of time especially by the lay man. It has been called upon even where the necessary statutory as well as common law provision do not necessitate. Even for the legal minds the mechanism for putting this substantive law into procedure have been murky and unclear. This paper is therefore aimed at prounding simplistic elucidation on the whole concept of lifting the veil of incorporation m...
CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction Criminal law is distinctive for the uniquely serious potential consequences or sanctions for failure to abide by its rules. Every crime is composed of criminal elements, capital punishment may be imposed in some jurisdictions for the most serious crimes, and physical or corporal punishment may be. imposed such as whipping or caning, although these punishments are prohibited in Uganda. Individuals may be incarcerated in prisons or jail in a variety of conditions d...
ABSTRACT The study established the legal effectiveness of the electronic tax (e-tax) employed by the (URA) in collecting taxes. All the reforms in the Uganda's tax system were aimed at improving tax collections, administration, and above all e-tax. In a bid to improve e-tax, Uganda Revenue Authority decided to go online hence introducing the electronic tax filing system. Despite of the introduction of the Electronic tax system, Uganda Revenue Authority is facing a problem of tax payers faili...
CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.0 Introduction 2.0 The law of inheritance provides for the manner of inheriting property, the mode of distributing properties of deceased persons and how other related matters should be dealt with. If a person dies, there are various legal consequences, the most important of which will concern the status of his partner, if the deceased was married or had a civil partnership, and the distribution of any property the deceased owned. Property inherit...
CHAPTER ONE SEPARATION OF POWERS 1.1.0 General Introduction This paper intends to address the concept of separation of powers in Uganda between the three organs of government videlicet, the legislature, Executive and the judiciary1 . This paper is geared towards providing a comprehensive and a current ' critical analysis of the concept of separation of powers, its merits and demerits and the extent to which Uganda has complied with the concept. Separation of powers is often used to justify t...
TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ........................................................................................... i DECLARATION ...................................................................................................... iii APPROVAL ............................................................................................................. iv DEDICATION ............................................................................................................ v ACKN...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Declaration ................................................................................................. .ii Approval. ................................................................................................... .iii Dedication ................................................................................................ .iv Acknoledgement ........................................................................................... v Table of contents ..............
ABSTRACTS This research has been made during the time when the Judiciary has been interfered by other organs of the government. The !995 Constitution of the Republic of Uganda under Article 128 provides the issue of judicial independence and security of tenure, the latter being among the safeguards of the independence of the judiciary. This Article widely shows that the independence of the judiciary is provided for by the constitution of the Republic of Uganda and it must be observed by law b...
TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATIONS ........................................................................................................................... i APPROVAL .................................................................................................................................... ii ' ACRONYMS .................................................................................................................................. v ABSTRACT .............................................
TABLE OF CONTENTS Ill IV v vi vii 1.1 Background of the Study I 1.2 Statement of the Problem 9 1.3 Significance of the Study I 0 1.4 Objectives I 0 1.4.1 General Objectives I 0 1.4.2 Specific Objectives II 1.5 Res~arch Questions II 1.6 Scope of the Study II 1.6.1 Geographical scope II 1.6.2 Content scope I I 1.6.3 Time scope II CHAPTER TWO 2.1 Literature Review 12 2.2 Origins of the doctrine 15 2.3 The doctrine of Austria-common wealth 16 2.4 The doctrine in Australia the state 19 2.5 The law...