Legal Alert

Crypto-currencies under the current National Payment System (Uganda) are illegal, unlawful and unacceptable as a general payment instrument.

Attention! Crypto Currency transactions by consumers or investors are not protected by government regulations or oversights. The National Payment Systems Act, 2020 which regulates payment systems in Uganda was not designed with crypto-currencies in mind. Silver Kayondo V Bank of Uganda Misc. Cause No. 109 of 2022(Civil Division): judgment delivered on 24th April 2023 by […]
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Centre for Arbitration & Dispute Resolution (CADER) is a quasi-judicial body and not a Court of Judicature.

Centre for Arbitration & Dispute Resolution & Jimmy Muyanja v Attorney General, Constitutional Petition No. 11/2019, Judgment delivered on March 2, 2023. Lead judgment by Monica K. Mugenyi, JCC Background to the case A petition was lodged by the Petitioners; challenging the failure to recognize CADER as a constitutionally established subordinate Court, the decisions of […]
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