Former Uganda chief Judge Bart Magunda Katureebe has been appointed as a member of the international supreme court in China.
Katureebe has been appointed after 6months of retiring and now back to the judicial bench to based in China following his appointment with effect from 8th/Dec/2020-24th/Dec/2024.
Katureebe officially retired as Uganda’s Chief Justice on June 20, 2020, after clocking the mandatory age of 70 and replaced by Deputy, Justice Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny-Dollo.
“Katureebe has had a career of astonishingly wide and varied experience. He served in government’s executive arm as minister and deputy minister, holding a variety of portfolios including that of Minister of Justice. He was also an ‘ordinary’ member of parliament, and in that capacity was part of the assembly that drew up Uganda’s 1995 constitution” a report by CARMEL RICKARD, Legal Columnist. Editor in Chief of the Newsletter of the Judicial Institute for Africa at UCT.
Among the judicial innovations for which he will be remembered is his introduction of an electronic case management system and, as his last gift to the judiciary and to Uganda, the Administration of the Judiciary Act. Signed into effect by President Yoweri Museveni the day before the retirement of the Chief Justice, this law aims to strengthen judicial independence by ‘streamlining the provision and management of funds for the judiciary’. It further establishes a Judiciary Council that will advise the Chief Justice on the administration of the judiciary and justice.
Among the many international bodies with which he was associated, he was a founding member of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts.
The former Chief Justice of Uganda was appointed to that position on the 5th March 2015 and before that, he was a justice of the Supreme Court of Uganda and born from the western arm district of Rubirizi, formerly Bushenyi.
