Norah Owaraga

Clarion call to female feminist lawyers in Uganda

Dear learned female advocates, feminists, Your Uganda Law Society President Senior Counsel Isaac Ssemakadde has invited me to amplify his call, as was shared on X by Dr. Stella Nyanzi: “Ugandan feminist lawyers are invited to liberate Ugandan feminism from oppressive power – democratize, decolonize, demilitarize and digitalize feminism! Don’t obstruct the (Radical New Bar)…

Documenting my journey from victim to victor

“Just keep your evidence safely,” Advocate Paul Mukiibi advised. By the way, he is the Head of Department of Law Reporting, Research and Law Reform of the Law Development Center. As a member of the Uganda Law Society (ULS), he is among those who are vying to be elected by his fellow learned friends to…

Miscellaneous Cause 18 of 2024 at Family Division of the High Court in Kampala

The matter in which I challenge, in Court, the purported will of my late father; which I believe forged, is still ongoing. My payer is a declaration of Court that the purported will of my late father “is invalid on account of it being procured by fraud, and in the alternative but without prejudice to…

Succession Act legally protects residence of orphans in the home of deceased parent

“To his credit, Daddy allocated each of his three marital homes to the respective wife and children living there. Polygamous men should be wealthy enough to bequeth each wife an independent home. I was prepared to fight to the death if any outsider had been given my mother’s residential home. Phew!!” Dr. Stella Nyanzi, 2014,…