An analysis of the law on professional negligence in the legal profession:
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2014-05
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Kampala International University, School of Law
Abstract
The study analyzed the Law on professional negligence in the legal profession in
Uganda and the challenges such laws face in the attempt to protect the public who are
the potential clients for Legal Practitioners from injury arising from professionally
negligence.
The research establishes the relationship between Legal professionals and their clients
pointing out that a Legal professional may be held liable for a tort of negligence if
he/she fails to exercise that due care skill and diligence expected from him/her in the
discharge of his/her duty to the client.
The study has also investigated how Government policies sought to enable the clients
of legal practitioners to obtain appropriate and optimum benefits from their resources
and how they seek to achieve the goals of satisfactory production and performance
standards, adequate performance methods, informative approaches and the effective
protection against the malpractices and actions which could adversely affect the
interests of clients in the delivery of professional of services.
The study also investigated the safety of the general public against professional
negligence and how the government has encouraged the adoption of appropriate
measures including the systems, regulations, national or international standards,
voluntary standards and the mantainance to ensure that the services provided to the
general public is appropriate and safe for the intended or the foreseeable use.
The research approaches selected were used aiming at producing a comprehensive and
detailed description of the area under investigation.
The clients have for long suffered at the hands of the professionals with little available
adequate remedies and the protection of the Law and many have ended up losing their
lives, incurring exorbitant costs, as a result of the professional negligence. Hence the
need for this study is to find out how far the law has gone to give redress to these
problems and the challenges thereof faced by the provisions of the laws on the
protection which could call for reform in the in the legal profession.
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A dissertation submitted to the school of law in partial fulfillment to the requirements for the award of the Bachelors Degree of laws of Kampala International University
Keywords
Criminal Law, Professional negligence, Legal profession, Uganda