One of Uganda’s most recent and biggest public interest cases that have rocked our cover pages has been a Constitutional Court petition by development activist, Morrison Rwakakamba through his Agency for Transformation, seeking for declarations that certain sections of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) Act are unconstitutional as they violate workers’ rights and interests in their savings held with the Fund. In the petition, Rwakakamba challenges some sections in the NSSF Act Cap 222 that he says do not make a provision for members’ perpetual and non-extinguishable interest in the Fund. He says under current law, members’ accounts are…
Big or small law firm? When it’s the size of the fight in the law firm and not its size that matters most To be small and big at the same time, sounds rather exaggerated but yes, that is what most analysts say is going to be a majority of service firms, including law firms of the future. Right-sized but not small, not top heavy but rather with the right skillset mix and not expensive but rather right-priced. One law firm, daring to play in that space is Cymbell Advocates, a brainchild of four lawyer friends- all of them with big dreams- dreams to create what in their words is Uganda’s most outstanding law firm that represents clients locally and globally in today’s global village. Meet the four learned friends, the co-founding partners of Cymbell.

Some of Cymbell’s founding team members, left-right: Arinda Herbert Kainlawren, Senior Associate; Brenda Karuhanga, Due Diligence and Research Associate; Henry Owen, Associate; Alebar Kanyonza, Administrative Assistant/ Accountant and Ronald Samuel Wanda, Associate.




