By Rachael Najjuma
13th July 2021
The Judiciary has reshuffled 42 judicial officers at the rank of Registrars and Magistrates especially those who were recently appointed officers on promotion, plus a few others on transfer.
While communicating the changes today, the Chief Registrar, Sarah Langa Siu, said that deployments and transfers were in the interest of improving the administration of justice in the various Courts emphasizing that some of the Divisions like Land, Commercial and Family needed boosting given the volume of work in the respective Registries.
The two newly appointed Judicial Officers John Paul Edoku Deputy Registrar and Ronald Kayizzi Chief Magistrate have been deployed to the Registry of Planning, Research and Development and Moyo Chief Magistrate Court respectively.
The changes have also seen at least 10 Judicial Officers at the Deputy Registrar and Chief Magistrate ranks transferred to different stations of which these include Deputy Registrars Mary Babirye, being moved from the Court of Appeal to the Mediation Registry, Flavia Nabakooza Land Division to Commercial Court and Mary Kaitesi Lukwago from Commercial Division to Court of Appeal.
Langa further stated that the Judicial Service Commission had extended the appointment of eight Acting Chief Magistrates who were initially appointed in January 2021 on a short-term engagement to assist with managing election petitions arising out of the January 14 national polls. These have been retained at their current stations.
All the deployments are effective immediately, whereas the transfers will be effective on August 1, 2021.
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