Lights out: mapping 18 months of Uganda's power cuts
Where the shutdowns fall, why they happen, what rain has to do with it, and what planners and builders can do about it.
Gava Charles, 10 minute readRead the analysisLegal Updates & Analysis
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New governance rules for payment licensees take effect on 1 July 2027
Bank of Uganda's Corporate Governance Guidelines reach every non-bank payment service provider, payment system operator and issuer of payment instruments, and most of them will need a different board before the date.
Paul Mutamba. 13 minute read.
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Same rain, different verdict
Why "it rained a lot" is one of the most argued sentences on Ugandan construction projects, and what the data say about it.
Gava Charles, 11 minute readRead the analysisKampala is not drowning in rain. It is drowning in its drains.
The storms have not got heavier in 45 years. The channels have been built over, blocked and squeezed, and the data shows where the next floods are coming.
Gava Charles, 5 minute readRead the analysisThe Registrar of Companies restrains a lapsed board in Batangaya v Igara Growers
Acting for the applicant shareholders of a 7,000-member tea company, the firm secured a ruling dismissing the company's objections, restraining those purporting to act as directors from lodging further filings with the companies registry, and referring the mandate question to the High Court.
Hove & Quill, 3 minute readRead the rulingRegistering a data controller with the Personal Data Protection Office
What the Office asks a controller or processor to file, the policies it expects to see behind the registration, and how a group operating in several African markets keeps one framework that satisfies each regulator.
Hove & Quill, 3 minute readRead moreWhat changes when a group parent leaves Europe
The approvals, the shareholder steps and the licences that travel, or do not, when a group migrates its parent from one jurisdiction to another, drawn from a migration the firm completed from France to the United Kingdom.
Hove & Quill, 3 minute readRead morePayment service licences under the National Payment Systems Act
The difference between a payment service provider and a payment system operator, the governance Bank of Uganda expects, and the conditions that follow a licence into its first year.
Hove & Quill, 4 minute readRead moreEnforcing a consent judgment inherited from previous counsel
What the execution file needs to contain, the applications that revive a stalled decree, and the points at which the court will ask why nothing was done sooner.
Hove & Quill, 4 minute readRead moreContractors the Uganda Revenue Authority will not accept as contractors
How an engagement model that looks like consultancy is reclassified as employment, what the exposure is on PAYE and social security, and how to regularise it without losing the people.
Hove & Quill, 4 minute readRead moreWhen a former insider trades under your name
Passing off, the Registrar's powers and the letters that work: recovering a company's name and licence from someone who used to be inside it.
Hove & Quill, 3 minute readRead moreThe notice that was never given under Sub-Clause 20.2
Why a claim under the 2017 Red Book can be lost in its first 28 days, what a compliant notice says, and how a dated chronology keeps the deadline on a live project.
Hove & Quill Construction Practice, 3 minute readRead the paper