Percy Night Tuhaise, is a Ugandan
lawyer
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and
judge
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who, on 8 February 2018, was appointed by president
Yoweri Museveni
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa (born 15 September 1944) is a Ugandan politician and Officer (armed forces), military officer who is the ninth and current president of Uganda since 1986. As of 2025, he is the third-List of current state lead ...
, to the
Uganda Court of Appeal which also doubles as the country's
Constitutional Court
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. Prior to her current position she served on the
High Court of Uganda.
Background and education
She graduated from the Faculty of Law of
Makerere University
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, Uganda's largest and oldest public university, with a
Bachelor of Laws
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, circa 1983. The following year, she was awarded a
Diploma in Legal Practice
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by the
Law Development Centre
The Law Development Centre (LDC) is an educational institution in Uganda for higher learning that offers various legal courses ranging from one month to one year.
Overview
The LDC is the only institution in Uganda that offers the Bar Course lead ...
, in Kampala, Uganda's capital city. She also holds a
Master of Laws
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In many jurisdi ...
from
Makerere University
Makerere University (; Mak) is Uganda's largest and oldest institution of higher learning, first established as a technical school in 1922, and the oldest currently active university in East Africa. It became an independent national university in ...
.
Career
After her admission to the Uganda Bar, she served in various roles in and outside public service. She was a member of the Uganda Law Reform Commission. At the time of her appointment to the Uganda High Court, she was the deputy director of the Law Development Centre, in Kampala, and concurrently served as the vice-chairperson of the electricity disputes tribunal.
At the High Court, Justice Tuhaise has served in the Family Division and in the International Crimes Division.
Tuhaise participated in translating of the 1995 Constitution into
Runyoro
Nyoro or Runyoro (, ) is a Bantu language spoken by the Nyoro people of Uganda. It has two dialects: ''Runyoro'' proper and ''Rutagwenda''. A standardized orthography was established in 1947. It's most closely related to Rutooro.
Samples
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Rutooro under supervision of the Law Development Centre. She was one of the trial judges in the "Muslim Clerics’ Murder Trial", between 2016 and 2017. She is the author of several publications, in peer-reviewed fora.
Other consideration
On 7 February 2018, president
Yoweri Museveni
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa (born 15 September 1944) is a Ugandan politician and Officer (armed forces), military officer who is the ninth and current president of Uganda since 1986. As of 2025, he is the third-List of current state lead ...
appointed Percy Tuhaise to the ''Uganda Court of Appeal/Uganda Constitutional Court'', pending
parliamentary
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approval.
See also
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Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs (Uganda)
The Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs is a cabinet-level government ministry of Uganda. It is responsible for the provision of "legal advice and legal services to government, its allied institutions and to the general public and to ...
References
External links
Court: Bukenya has case to answer in wife grabbing case
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20th-century Ugandan lawyers
21st-century Ugandan judges
1960 births
Living people
Makerere University alumni
Law Development Centre alumni
Academic staff of the Law Development Centre
People from Western Region, Uganda
Justices of the High Court of Uganda
Justices of the Court of Appeal of Uganda
21st-century Ugandan women judges
Justices of the Supreme Court of Uganda