Ezekiel Muhanguzi is a
Ugandan lawyer and judge, on the
Court of Appeal of Uganda
The Court of Appeal of Uganda (also constituted as the Constitutional Court of Uganda) is the second-highest judicial organ in Uganda. It derives its powers from Article 134 of the 1995 Constitution. It is an appellate court when hearing cases ...
, which doubles as the country's
Constitutional Court. He was appointed to that position by president
Yoweri Museveni on 8 February 2018.
Prior to his elevation to the Court of Appeal/Constitutional Court, Justice Muhanguzi served on the High Court of Uganda, retiring from there in February 2017, after attaining the mandatory retirement age (for the High Court of Uganda) of 65 years.
Background and education
He was born in circa February 1952.
He is a native of Nyabushozi County, in present-day
Kiruhura District, in the
Western Region of Uganda.
Ezekiel Muhanguzi studied law at
Makerere University, Uganda's largest and oldest public university, graduating with a
Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree in 1976.
Later, he received a
Diploma in Legal Practice
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, from the
Law Development Centre, in Kampala, the national capital. He was then admitted to the Uganda Bar.
Work experience
His last assignment at the High Court was in the ''International Crimes Division'' of the court. He served as a member of a three-judge tribunal that tried 14 men who were accused of carrying out the murders of Muslim clerics in Uganda, between 2014 and 2015. Justices
Percy Tuhaise and
Jane Kiggundu
Jane Kiggundu, is a Ugandan lawyer and judge on the High Court of Uganda. She was appointed to that court by president Yoweri Museveni, in May 2008.
Background and education
She graduated from the Faculty of Law of Makerere University, Uganda' ...
were the other two judges on that tribunal.
He was selected to be the lead judge on that three-judge panel.
He left that tribunal before that case was concluded, due to his reaching the age of retirement. He was replaced on the tribunal by Justice Wilson Kwesiga.
He previously served as the resident High Court judge in the
Mbale court circuit.
See also
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Supreme Court of Uganda
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Constitutional Court of Uganda
The Court of Appeal of Uganda (also constituted as the Constitutional Court of Uganda) is the second-highest judicial organ in Uganda. It derives its powers from Article 134 of the 1995 Constitution. It is an appellate court when hearing cases ...
References
External links
Judge asks media not to take pictures during Muslim clerics' murder trial
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20th-century Ugandan lawyers
21st-century Ugandan judges
1952 births
Living people
Makerere University alumni
Law Development Centre alumni
People from Kiruhura District
People from Western Region, Uganda
Justices of the High Court of Uganda
Justices of the Court of Appeal of Uganda
Justices of the Supreme Court of Uganda