Africa/Uganda

The Miranda Alliance has announced that it has joined the Global Legal Blockchain Consortium (GLBC) as its first African organization. | 5yrs

The ICC International Court of Arbitration (ICC) is to launch an Africa Commission to co-ordinate its growth and activity in Africa. | 5yrs

Corporate governance improvements are linked to value creation in Africa, according to 2018 Africa Sustainability Study. | 5yrs

Andersen Global has announced plans to launch a presence in Uganda signalling its fourth location in Africa - one day after revealing it was opening an office in Venice-Mestre and expanding its office space in Milan. | 5yrs

Eight new partners have been admitted at Kampala Associated Advocates (KAA) in efforts to to inject 'renewed energy' into the 17-year-old company and make it the number one legal firm in the East Africa region. | 6yrs

The demand for legal services in the areas of corporate and commercial law in Uganda is growing, according to David Mpanga, managing partner of Kampala-based law firm AF Mpanga. | 7yrs

ABMAK Associates, a mining specialist firm which was created out of a merger last year, expects the need for more sophisticated legal advice to increase as the country's oil and gas resources are more thoroughly exploited. | 8yrs

Ugandan lawyer Gerald Abila has set up an organisation called Barefoot Law to inform the majority of the population, some 36m people, who live outside the capital of Kampala, about their rights and obligations. | 9yrs

Students who have failed their exams are practising as qualified lawyers, according to judges. | 9yrs

Having suspended the Attorney General, Peter Nyombi, for two years on the grounds of incompetence, the Uganda Law Society (ULS) has now agreed to start talks aimed at a reconciliation. | 9yrs

ENSafrica is on the expansion trail as it seeks coverage across the continent. | 9yrs

The Ugandan government is being urged by the Muslim Centre for Justice and Law (MCJL) to regulate Sharia law courts. | 9yrs

A row has broken out over the re-appointment of a judge to the Uganda Supreme Court. | 10yrs

The death of retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria Kayode Eso has led to an outpouring of tributes in the country, with many describing his impact on the Nigerian legal system as immeasurable. | 10yrs

University law courses in Uganda are creating 'half-baked' lawyers unfit for practice, a senior specialist academic in the country claims. | 11yrs