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Young lawyers, the hours you spend now learning the hard way are a gift to your sixty-year-old self. Don't trade them for speed.
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Your law degree gets you into the profession. Your competence, discipline, reputation and ability to build relationships determine how far you go.
Never stop learning, improving and investing in yourself.
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Don't be afraid to ask questions, especially when you're learning. No lawyer knows everything.
It is better to seek clarification than to pretend you understand and make an avoidable professional mistake.
Humility and willingness to learn will take you further.
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Being a good lawyer is not enough. You must also learn how to attract clients, build relationships, manage your practice and earn people's trust.
Legal competence brings value, but business development keeps your practice growing.
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🚨 High Court declines ABC Bank's bid to stop a criminal investigation into a KSh 200 million loan.
This is a ruling of the High Court declining ABC Bank's bid to stop a criminal investigation touching on a Sh200 million loan. Here is what it means.
The background reaches back to 2012, when the bank advanced a loan of about KSh 200 million, secured on property. Years later, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations opened a probe, prompted by an allegation that the borrower and his spouse never actually signed the loan documents, and by questions over the bank's later sale of two of the properties held as security. The bank went to the High Court to have that investigation stopped.
The court said no, and the reason is the heart of the matter. A court will not switch off a criminal investigation simply because the person under scrutiny would prefer it did not happen. The bar is deliberately high. The applicant must show that something is genuinely wrong with the investigation itself, bad faith, an abuse of power, or the breach of an existing court order. ABC Bank, the court found, had shown none of these. With no such proof, the investigation was entitled to run its course.
It is worth being precise about what this ruling is and is not. It is not a finding that the bank did anything wrong. An investigation is a process of inquiry, not a verdict, and no one has been charged. What the court decided is narrower: that there was no lawful basis to stop the inquiry before it had even reached a conclusion.
The legal dispute worth noting. On one side, a long-running commercial dispute should not be turned into a criminal weapon. A disgruntled party can dress a contractual quarrel up as a crime to pressure the other side, and the damage of being investigated, to reputation and peace of mind, lands long before any court rules. Businesses are right to fear probes used as leverage, and the courts must be able to halt one that is truly malicious. On the other, a civil loan does not place anything inside it beyond the reach of the criminal law. If a signature on documents securing KSh 200 million was indeed forged, that is a crime, and the existence of a commercial relationship cannot immunise it. Were courts to stop investigations on demand, an injunction would become a licence. Protection from abuse pulls one way, the duty to let genuine inquiry proceed the other.
Key takeaway: the courts will rarely step in to stop a criminal investigation, and only on clear proof of bad faith, abuse of power, or breach of a court order. Preferring not to be investigated, or insisting the matter is really a civil dispute, is not enough. A commercial contract and a criminal inquiry can run side by side, and the place to answer an investigation is within it, not by trying to shut it down.
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He is lying. These are not the facts of this case. I handled it on behalf of the Victims family.
It is not a criteria when it comes to commissions.
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Some lawyers have family members who can introduce them to clients, help them establish chambers, or connect them to influential people.
Others are the first lawyers in their families and have to figure out everything from scratch.
We don't all start from the same place. Let's stop pretending we do.
Guy holding the tail. Brave. Must be a Masai. Those ones comfortably remind lions who is the true warrior.
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Mental Health Researcher, @bako_patricia says her research on mental health among Ugandan lawyers revealed attitudes that make it difficult for lawyers to seek help.
“Lawyers who can’t cope with pressure should leave the profession” a participant said.
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Why is @URAuganda auditing you yet “churches” are tax exempt?
These are not stunts. And this post proves a serious point.
We went to Karamoja to feed people and save lives, while the audited places you talk about did nothing. We have put people through school, taken children off the streets, and helped raise many who are now doctors, lawyers, and teachers.
I understand the need to defend your dad. But regarding what you just mentioned, we already do those things. Ask any member of our church. When we bought tractors for Karamoja, we brought them publicly for everyone to see so that we could be held accountable.
Other churches, which, sorry to say, your dad defended, have raised money for church buildings that no one has built and for which no one can see any progress.
We feed new converts at our church. We feed thousands who attend meetings. We feed people, send food to those who have nothing, and even give to those who already have something.
Your dad never mentioned any of what you are now bringing up. He never talked about transparency, audits, or accountability. He simply attacked miracles with a clear lack of foundation.
My point still stands: no one here calls out Islam for its many dangerous issues. In September 2023, ADF and Al-Shabaab delivered a bomb to our church. No one called it out. No one said a word.
Pastors don’t perform miracles. My dad has made that clear at every crusade: “ROBERT KAYANJA DOESN’T HEAL. ONLY JESUS HEALS.”
It was the following day that your dad expanded the scope of his statement after receiving backlash, and rightfully so.
The Church and born-again Christians in Uganda are a net positive and a massive help to society.
During COVID, frankly speaking, people had no money for anything. People were struggling to eat and couldn’t move around. We went above and beyond by sending food out to those in need. We did the same in South Sudan and Kenya.
Again, we are accountable because when we say we will do something, we do it.
However, if you’re talking about raising money for a building and never building it, that’s not us!
By the way, we are audited by the URA. We have to give an account and keep our books in order.
We have a Bible college where we train and teach pastors and ministers. We hold youth conferences where we feed everyone for free. You can literally show up, eat, and leave, because our giving isn’t tied to whether you sit in church or not.
Again, I understand defending your dad, but this attack was wrong.
And watch this: backlash can be hard, but no one would make these kinds of statements about any other faith or religion
This one will be on the ballot in 2027. In some way, he is already setting the ground.
Maurice Ogetta: I don't think I have forgiven Makau Mutua for exposing our communication channels during protests.
He was in Raila Odinga's car, recording Live the happenings, the coordination we were doing, exposing us.
#UnmaskingRailasShadow @NginaKirori