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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>President Museveni has applauded the African chief justices on their bid to revert to resolving disputes the African way.<\/b><\/p>\n

The President reasoned that the African way of resolving conflicts such as mediation and reconciliation led to truth-telling unlike the current formal justice system that covers the truth upon hiring a lawyer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am happy that our judiciaries [African judiciaries] are realigning themselves with their African roots. The pre-colonial methods of handling disputes must be studied and they have some positive elements in them that the present legal system must emulate. One of the core principles of African jurisprudence was truth finding, this differs from the current legal system, which we inherited from the British,\u201d Mr Museveni said in his remarks read out by Vice President Jessica Alupo on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Adding: \u201cIn the current system, one hires an advocate to cover his or her mistakes in a courtroom. The lawyer\u2019s job is to minimise his client\u2019s mistakes and maximise his innocence. He is paid to obscure the truth after all attempts to arrive at the truth…\u201d<\/p>\n

The President\u2019s call was made during the opening of the Africa Chief Justices Summit on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in Kampala, which drew more than 15 chief justices from all over Africa.<\/p>\n

To drive his point home, Mr Museveni gave an example of how the Banyankole harmoniously handled marital disputes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this Banyankole system, even your side would turn against you, upon discovering that you are a wrongdoer. For instance, if the woman was in the wrong, her own family would turn against her and order her to apologise to her husband. That was one of our principles. It was based on truth, rather than just legal battles. We did not cover up the truth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He promised to support Uganda\u2019s Judiciary to embrace ADR.<\/p>\n

\u201cGovernment will support the Judiciary to expand the use of alternative dispute resolution. This will help to rejuvenate the traditional systems of dispute resolution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Appeal<\/b><\/p>\n

Speaking at the same summit, Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo rallied his colleagues in attendance to encourage their courts to adopt the concept of settling disputes the African way, which, he said, is quick and cheap.<\/p>\n

Justice Dollo said studies by Ernest Uwazie established that many African citizens have lost faith in the ability of their nations\u2019 courts to provide timely or just closure to their grievances.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe primary object of the ADR movement is avoidance of vexation, expense, and delay and promotion of the ideal of \u2018access to justice\u2019 for all. The ADR system seeks to provide cheap, simple, quick, and accessible justice….. So, precisely saying, ADR aims at providing justice that not only resolves disputes but also harmonises the relationships of the parties,\u201d Justice Dollo said.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cYou will agree with me that native customs provided very satisfactory dispute resolution approaches that were people-centred and that left the community members largely satisfied. This is what we missed when we popularised the formal Court adjudication system at the expense of our African dispute settlement approaches.\u201d<\/p>\n

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