All time sheets should be turned into either me or Mirriam by April 18th.
Mirriam will set the procedure for handing in time sheets and supporting documentation to her.
Students that are on the Streams of Justice, Joni & Friends or LDC Workshop teams have the option of sending their time sheets to me as well to make sure that I provide full and accurate feedback to Mirriam for her marking of your clinical project performance. If you want to make sure you receive my personal feedback on your timesheet you can type out the particulars and send it to me or you can have your timesheet or timesheets scanned and emailed to me at dbriandennison@gmail.com Note that you should not send proof of court attendance or supporting court attendance journals to me with your timesheets. Those materials are for Mirriam only.
I will provide some feedback on team members under my supervision regardless as to whether you send your sheet on to me. However, sending your sheets to me will help ensure that I provide Mirriam with a more informed assessment of your work on that project team.
Note that it is important to state any future service commitment you will be making for clinical projects on your time sheets. For example if you are committing to present at the LDC Workshop you should indicate that on your timesheet. The same thing goes for commitments to attend future will writing clinics, to assist UCLF with the Naguru remand home juvenile sessions under the J-Faster Programme, to present at the TBA Joni and Friends PWD in the law workshop, to participate in Land Mediation exercises, etc.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Memo Assignment
The following is a guide to your upcoming memo assignments.
Note that your memo should be from 4 to 7 pages in length. Your memo must be submitted by email to dbriandennison@gmail.com by 11:59 p.m. East Africa Time on Tuesday, 24 April, 2012. Earlier submission are appreciated as our clinical partners who provided us with these research assignments can use these memos as soon as they are ready.
Note that you cannot presume that I have received your memo via email unless I send you a confirmation email. If you do not receive a confirmation email within two days of sending you should check to see if I received the email and check the address you used for accuracy.
Your memo should be clear and informative. It should provide an accurate and current assessment of the law regarding the memo topic. It should include citations to authority. If the memo relies on a case or opinion that is not readily available on the internet you should provide a way in which this document can be provided to the clinical partner. My recommendation is that you provide Mirriam with a copy of the document.
Note that the assignments below do not apply to Joni & Friends Team Members. Those team members have already been provided with assignments.
For LDC Team Members you can write your memo on the following topic: What were the most important developments in (insert here one of the LDC topic areas other than Legal Methods) in Uganda since 1 January, 2011.
For all other students you are to write on the topic that correlates with the first letter of your African name. If you have two African names you can pick which name you would like to go with. That is a special advantage for those with two African names.
Switching Topics: Note that you also have the power to switch topics with a student if that student’s name lines up with a memo topic that you would prefer to write on. If that is the case you need to indicate at the beginning of your memo who you have switched with. The idea here is to make sure I get a good distribution of research in order to best serve the partners who provided us with these assignments.
African Names (Aa-Am):
Consider the following factual scenario -- Mother of child is mentally disabled such that the mother thinks she is a child, is unable to care for herself, and is unable to care for a child. Legal question -- How can this mother be declared mentally incompetent, and how does such a finder affect the ability of the child to be legally deemed an orphan. In other words, what is the legal process for getting a sole caregiver of a child declared to be unfit to care for the child, and what are the legal consequences on parental rights of such a declaration.
African Names (An-Az):
Write a memo clearly delineating the criminal procedural path that an adult and/or juvenile travels from the time of arrest until trial. Include in this memo all of the relevant time limitations for the various stages as prescribed by Ugandan law.
African Names (Ba-Bz):
Address the likely constitutional challenges to the component in the pending Anti-Homosexuality bill regarding the obligation to report the homosexual conduct of others.
African Names (D-J):
Draft a working guide to bail in Uganda providing a description of the procedures, limitations, and requirements for obtaining bail for both juveniles and adults.
African Names (Ka):
Draft a memo addressing the legal issues involved when one record/videotape conversations without informing one or more of the parties to the conversation? Under what circumstances is it legal? Under what circumstances is it illegal?
African Names (Kb-Kz):
Draft a memo addressing the evidentiary admissibility of undercover audio/video recordings in a criminal and civil hearing? To the extent that it is admissible what evidentiary weight is it given and are there any special procedural and evidentiary concerns that counsel should be aware of when attempting to use such evidence?
African Names (L-Mb)
Are admissions against interest made to non-police officers admissible against criminal defendants (and what evidentiary weight are they given)?
African Names: (Mc-Mz)
What case law exists filling (or failing to fill) the gap in the Succession Act left by Law Advocacy for Women in Uganda v. Attorney General, Nos 13/05, 05/06 Const. Ct. of Uganda 2007 (i.e., how are courts currently ordering Administrator's to divide intestate estates)? NOTE This is a difficult topic - If you are unable to make any progress on this topic you can state as much at the beginning of the memo and then you can address any of the other memo topics that you like. Your statement at the beginning should describe the efforts you made to research the issue.
African Names: (Na-Nh)
What case law exists imposing penalties (or failing to impose penalties) on Administrators/Executors who fail to fulfill their statutory duties within the requisite one year of administration/execution?
African Names (Ni-R)
Have any suits been successfully lodged against the Administrator General's office for failure to fulfill statutory duties of an administrator (i.e., for obtaining permission to administrate, and then refusing to do so)?
African Names: (S-Z)
What legal remedies are available under Ugandan law to force the Administrator General to take action. What are the procedures and requirements involved in procuring such remedies.
Note that your memo should be from 4 to 7 pages in length. Your memo must be submitted by email to dbriandennison@gmail.com by 11:59 p.m. East Africa Time on Tuesday, 24 April, 2012. Earlier submission are appreciated as our clinical partners who provided us with these research assignments can use these memos as soon as they are ready.
Note that you cannot presume that I have received your memo via email unless I send you a confirmation email. If you do not receive a confirmation email within two days of sending you should check to see if I received the email and check the address you used for accuracy.
Your memo should be clear and informative. It should provide an accurate and current assessment of the law regarding the memo topic. It should include citations to authority. If the memo relies on a case or opinion that is not readily available on the internet you should provide a way in which this document can be provided to the clinical partner. My recommendation is that you provide Mirriam with a copy of the document.
Note that the assignments below do not apply to Joni & Friends Team Members. Those team members have already been provided with assignments.
For LDC Team Members you can write your memo on the following topic: What were the most important developments in (insert here one of the LDC topic areas other than Legal Methods) in Uganda since 1 January, 2011.
For all other students you are to write on the topic that correlates with the first letter of your African name. If you have two African names you can pick which name you would like to go with. That is a special advantage for those with two African names.
Switching Topics: Note that you also have the power to switch topics with a student if that student’s name lines up with a memo topic that you would prefer to write on. If that is the case you need to indicate at the beginning of your memo who you have switched with. The idea here is to make sure I get a good distribution of research in order to best serve the partners who provided us with these assignments.
African Names (Aa-Am):
Consider the following factual scenario -- Mother of child is mentally disabled such that the mother thinks she is a child, is unable to care for herself, and is unable to care for a child. Legal question -- How can this mother be declared mentally incompetent, and how does such a finder affect the ability of the child to be legally deemed an orphan. In other words, what is the legal process for getting a sole caregiver of a child declared to be unfit to care for the child, and what are the legal consequences on parental rights of such a declaration.
African Names (An-Az):
Write a memo clearly delineating the criminal procedural path that an adult and/or juvenile travels from the time of arrest until trial. Include in this memo all of the relevant time limitations for the various stages as prescribed by Ugandan law.
African Names (Ba-Bz):
Address the likely constitutional challenges to the component in the pending Anti-Homosexuality bill regarding the obligation to report the homosexual conduct of others.
African Names (D-J):
Draft a working guide to bail in Uganda providing a description of the procedures, limitations, and requirements for obtaining bail for both juveniles and adults.
African Names (Ka):
Draft a memo addressing the legal issues involved when one record/videotape conversations without informing one or more of the parties to the conversation? Under what circumstances is it legal? Under what circumstances is it illegal?
African Names (Kb-Kz):
Draft a memo addressing the evidentiary admissibility of undercover audio/video recordings in a criminal and civil hearing? To the extent that it is admissible what evidentiary weight is it given and are there any special procedural and evidentiary concerns that counsel should be aware of when attempting to use such evidence?
African Names (L-Mb)
Are admissions against interest made to non-police officers admissible against criminal defendants (and what evidentiary weight are they given)?
African Names: (Mc-Mz)
What case law exists filling (or failing to fill) the gap in the Succession Act left by Law Advocacy for Women in Uganda v. Attorney General, Nos 13/05, 05/06 Const. Ct. of Uganda 2007 (i.e., how are courts currently ordering Administrator's to divide intestate estates)? NOTE This is a difficult topic - If you are unable to make any progress on this topic you can state as much at the beginning of the memo and then you can address any of the other memo topics that you like. Your statement at the beginning should describe the efforts you made to research the issue.
African Names: (Na-Nh)
What case law exists imposing penalties (or failing to impose penalties) on Administrators/Executors who fail to fulfill their statutory duties within the requisite one year of administration/execution?
African Names (Ni-R)
Have any suits been successfully lodged against the Administrator General's office for failure to fulfill statutory duties of an administrator (i.e., for obtaining permission to administrate, and then refusing to do so)?
African Names: (S-Z)
What legal remedies are available under Ugandan law to force the Administrator General to take action. What are the procedures and requirements involved in procuring such remedies.
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