Eldad Mwangusya is a Ugandan judge who has served as a Justice of the
Supreme Court of Uganda
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, since 2015.
Career
Justice Mwangusya started his legal career in 1976, as a state attorney at the
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. He rose through the ranks to become principal state attorney. For a period of one year, from 1997 until 1998, he practiced as a private lawyer.
He started as resident judge of the Fort Portal and Masaka judicial circuits. He was then promoted to the High Court, rising to deputy head of the International Crimes Division of the High Court. Later he became the head of the Civil Division of the High Court.
In 2013, he was appointed to the Court of Appeal (which also serves as the Constitutional Court). At the Constitutional Court, Mwangusya wrote the court's Majority judgment "that struck down the Anti-homosexuality Act on grounds that it was passed by parliament without quorum".
In 2014, Justice Mwangusya was among the seven justices that ruled that it was unconstitutional to reappoint former Chief Justice
Benjamin Odoki
Benjamin Josses Odoki (born 23 March 1943) was the tenth Chief Justice of Uganda from 2001 to 2013.
Background and education
He was born in ''Dhaka Village'', Busia District, in the Eastern Region, Uganda, Eastern Region of Uganda, on 23 March ...
upon retirement at age 70.
Other considerations
Justice Mwangusya served as legal counsel to the "Commission of Inquiry into the Escape of Prisoners from Murchison Bay Prison" and the "Commission of Inquiry into Uganda Posts and Telecommunications". He also served as a member of the "Non-Government Organisations Board", a government agency that regulates
Non Government Organisations in Uganda.
See also
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Judiciary of Uganda
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References
External links
Court orders fresh review of Karuma dam project tender
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Ugandan lawyers
21st-century Ugandan judges
Makerere University alumni
Law Development Centre alumni
People from Eastern Region, Uganda
Justices of the Supreme Court of Uganda