Longtime Global Military Justice Reform contributor Major (R) Navdeep Singh and the Editor have written Ugandan Supreme Court’s Courageous Ruling on Military Justice--its relevance to Indian Subcontinental Law for Bar & Bench. We conclude:
The decision of the Supreme Court of Uganda is testament to the complementary roles of national and international actors in advancing human rights. It comes at a time when the Rule of Law is threatened in a host of countries, and also a time when national judiciaries have been called upon to make the right to a fair trial before an independent and impartial court a reality. Sometimes, as in Uganda, or last year’s O’Brien decision by the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the court itself may be an engine of reform.
At other times, as in last year’s Edwards case in the Supreme Court of Canada, the court may see its role as more limited and view Parliament as the proper venue for reform. Either way, though progress can be and is being made, one can only admire the contribution of the Ugandan Supreme Court to the cause of justice and more particularly to military justice reform.
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