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Daily Monitor Thursday February 11 2021 Summary The Hansard shows that when Article 104 was amended in December 2017 to increase the number of days from 10 to 15, the issue of whether weekends and public holidays are counted for the purpose of filing a petition did not come up.  Advertisement Article 104 of the 1995 Constitution provides that a presidential petition ‘shall be lodged in the Supreme Court registry within 15 days after the declaration of the election results.’  Article 104(2) uses the word ‘shall’, which means that the petition must be lodged within 15 days. The questi...

This has been revealed by the chief justice Alfonse Owiny Dollo who is leading a panel of eight other justices after today’s pre-hearing session where the two parties, petitioner and respondents were supposed to agree on the triable issues was adjourned to February 24 The adjournment followed revelation by the petitioner’s lawyer Medard Lubega Ssegona that they were not ready to proceed as they had a batch of more affidavits to file with 50 expected to be filed today and another 50 by Monday, February 15

Daily Monitor Wednesday February 10 2021 A photomontage of Mr Robert Kyagulanyi (right) and his lawyers led by Busiro County East MP Medard Sseggona (seated, left) consulting during the hearing of an application by the former presidential candidate seeking to amend an earlier poll petition at the Supreme Court in Kampala yesterday. PHOTO/ABUBAKER LUBOWA Summary Dismissed: Supreme Court judges say National Unity Platform leader Robert Kyagulanyi’s application to amend the poll petition and include new grounds did not have new information. Court ruled that the issues Mr Kyagulanyi’s team i...

Judges said they could not allow Wine’s new ground in the intended amended petition.

By Veronica Kayaga President Museveni, the Electoral Commission and the Attorney General who are respondents in a case in which