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John Manzi, a former student of Naalya SSS, is starting his law course at Makerere University with a dramatic legal victory over Makerere University.

On Thursday, the High Court in Kampala declared that the Public Universities Joint Admissions Board (PUJAB) is an illegal entity.

The court ordered Makerere University to admit Manzi for a bachelor’s degree in law on government scholarship. Court also ordered Makerere to pay him the cost of the legal suit.

Manzi passed A’ level with 19 points and also passed the law school’s pre-entry examination with 63%.

However, he was not admitted for the programme on grounds that he had not applied for it through the PUJAB. Instead, he was admitted for business administration on government sponsorship.

Manzi challenged this decision a month ago. Justice Yasin Nyanzi ruled that PUJAB was an illegal set-up since there was no statutory instrument or Act of Parliament that put it in place.

The judge, therefore, ruled that the university acted illegally by using PUJAB as a basis for denying Manzi a vacancy.

Justice Nyanzi noted that since Makerere could not show how PUJAB was created to handle admission of students to public universities and what legal instrument created it, it is, therefore, an illegal body for the purpose of admission.

Makerere Univesrsity had argued that Manzi faulted on the process of admission by not applying for Bachelors of Law through PUJAB, which is a requirement for all those seeking government sponsorship.

Makerere University lawyer Pope Ahimbisibwe had also argued that Manzi should have sued the Attorney General.

He said Makerere only admits students selected by the education ministry through PUJAB.

Implications

The Solicitor General, Francis Atoke, said his office will study the ruling before advising the education ministry.

“I cannot comment on this matter because I have not read the ruling,” Atoke noted.

However, Manzi’s lawyer, Oscar Kihika, said the ruling implies that PUJAB has been stripped of the powers to admit students for government sponsorship.

He argued that unless the legal status of PUJAB is rectified, A’ level candidates will in future have to apply to the different universities independently.

“This is a groundbreaking ruling because it has outlawed PUJAB and other students can as well come out to sue the university for damages,” he stated.

Makerere University Vice-Chancellor Prof. John Ddumba-Ssentamu yesterday said he would discuss with the university’s legal team on the prospects of lodging an appeal.

He insisted that Manzi did not apply for the Bachelor of Laws degree on government sponsorship.

“We are instructing our lawyers to appeal. The most important thing is that the student did not apply for the law course,” Ssentamu said.

Education expert Fagil Mandy said; “I cannot comment on that because I do not know the status of that body (PUJAB).”

NEW YORK, Aug 2: Microsoft on Friday (August 1) sued Samsung in US federal court, claiming the South Korean giant had breached a contract over licensing of technology used in the fiercely competitive smartphone market.

“After becoming the leading player in the worldwide smartphone market, Samsung decided late last year to stop complying with its agreement with Microsoft,” the US technology firm’s deputy counsel said in an online post.

The complaint filed in federal court in New York alleges Samsung is failing to make payments for patented Microsoft technology used in smartphones and tablets. Samsung did not immediately respond to an AFP request for comment.

Microsoft contends the South Korean consumer electronics colossus is not adhering to a contract from 2011, and said it filed the court action after months of “painstaking negotiation.” The legal pact involved Samsung paying to use Microsoft intellectual property, according to the post by deputy counsel David Howard.

Samsung’s smartphone sales have quadrupled since the contract was signed as the company grew from shipping 82 million Android-powered handsets in 2011 to shipping 314 million three years later, Microsoft maintained.

SAMSUNG A SMARTPHONE STAR

Samsung has become a smartphone goliath, and the biggest maker of handsets powered by Google’s free Android software. “Samsung predicted it would be successful, but no one imagined their Android smartphone sales would increase this much,” Howard said.

After Microsoft made a deal last year to buy Nokia’s smartphone business, Samsung stopped abiding by the cross-licensing contract, the US company says. Microsoft said in the filing that Samsung used the Nokia business acquisition as grounds to step away from the licensing deal.

Microsoft closed the deal for Nokia’s smartphone business in April with some adjustments from the announced price of US$7.52 billion (5.44 billion euros). Nokia was the world leader in mobile phones before the introduction of Apple’s iPhone in 2007 and the onslaught of Android phones, mainly from Samsung.

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