Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny-Dollo is a

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n lawyer and judge. He has been the Chief Justice of Uganda since 20 August 2020. He served as the Acting

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from 22 June 2020 and was a deputy Chief Justice from 30 September 2017. He had been appointed to that position in August 2017, replacing

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, who attained the mandatory retirement age of 70 years on 29 September 2017.

Background and education

He was born on 18 January 1956 in present-day

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. He attended King’s College Budo and

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for his O’Level and A’Level education respectively. He holds a

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from

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and a

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, from the

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, Uganda's largest city and

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. His

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in conflict resolution, was obtained from the

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in the United Kingdom. He also has a certificate in advanced conflict mediation skills, obtained from the Center for Conflict Resolution in

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, South Africa.

Career

In 1988, Owiny-Dollo served as legal counsel in the peace talks between the then rebel outfit, Uganda People's Democratic Movement (UPDM), and the

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. In that capacity, he wrote the peace agreement executed between the government and UPDM, on 3 June 1988, at Pece Stadium, in

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. From 1994 until 1996, he was a member of the Constituent Assembly that drafted the 1995 Uganda Constitution. He also served as a member of parliament, representing Agago County in the 6th Parliament (1996–2001). During the talks between the

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and the

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government of Uganda, from 2006 until 2008, Owiny-Dollo served as legal counsel to Reik Machar, the Vice President of

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, who mediated the talks. In 2008, he was appointed to the High Court of Uganda, serving in that capacity until 2015. In 2015, Owiny-Dollo, was promoted to the Court of Appeal of Uganda. However, he couldn't immediately take up his appointment because he was hearing a terrorism case in the High Court, in which 13 men were accused of killing 76 people in twin bombings in Kampala in 2010. He disposed of that case in May 2016. In August 2017, the president of Uganda, appointed Owiny-Dollo, as the Deputy Chief Justice and under Ugandan law, the head of Uganda's Court of Appeal and Uganda's Constitutional Court. On 20 August 2020, the president of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni appointed him as the 13th

, replacing

Bart Magunda Katureebe Bart Magunda Katureebe is a Ugandan judge and the former Chief Justice of Uganda. He was appointed to that position on 5 March 2015. Before that, he was a justice of the Supreme Court of Uganda. Background and education He was born on 20 June 19 ...

, who clocked the mandatory retirement age of 70, on 19 June 2020.

Family

Justice Owiny-Dollo is married to three wives with children and one of the wives is Florence Nakachwa Dollo-Owiny the Deputy Director of

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Career

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