The Quest for Domestic Relations Law in Uganda: A case study as to Whether It’s An accessity or Wastage of time and resources.
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2013-11
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Kampala International University, School of law.
Abstract
The research entitled the quest for domestic relations bill was aimed at the following
objectives to establish and investigate inadequacies in the methodologies employed in the
initial processes of the domestic relation laws reforms, to assess the shortfalls within the
advocacy strategy employed from the time the domestic study report was made public in
1998 until the current period,to investigate and establish the possible extraneous factors
responsible for the delay of the passing of the DRB such as political, cultural, customary,
social - economic factors and religion among others, to suggest possible alternative
strategies to achieve the passing of the Domestic Relations Bill. This dissertation
examines in detail the so far ill-fated journey of Uganda's ambitious Domestic Relations
Bill ("DRB"). Generally, the Bill seeks to improve and harmonise, to some extent,
domestic relations between men and women under various marriage and 'quasi-marriage'
regimes which subsist in civil, customary and Islamic law. Using several interwoven
methodologies, especially the Women's Law, Grounded Theory and Human Rights
Approaches, the writer gathers (using a variety of methods) and analyses a vast anay of
relevant data from the many parties involved in the birth (in 1994) and progress (or,
rather, lack of progress) of the Bill until its lapse before Parliament in 2005. The writer
suggests resuscitating and promoting its proposed reforms in diverse ways in the hope
that they may eventually become law.
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A research report submitted to the Faculty of Law in Partial
Fulfillment for the Requirements of the Award of a
Bachelors Degree in Laws of Kampala
International University.
Keywords
Domestic Relations, Law, Uganda