Ivan Ojakol
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Partner at Matrix Advocates. Just a lawyer doing my 10,000 hours. Limits are an Illusion. Lecturer. Bibliophile. Columnist. Trade, Tax, TMT & IP, Sports Law.
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Groundbreaking Image right Sports Law alert:
Justice Mubiru in a characteristic rich and thorough judgment subjects FUFA to slightly over UGX 500m general damages and 6% interest thereon from the time of the filing of the suit in 2011.
A thread:
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Lawyers; the previously somewhat abstract "Force Majeur " contractual clause finally comes to life!
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Zaake should be able to contest Parliament's findings against him in Court which braces us for two tech decisions from our Courts-
@IsaacSsemakadde
on jurisdiction and other evidential aspects under the Computer Misuse Act and Zaake on similar aspects following Stella Nyanzi V Ug.
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I am immensely humbled and honoured to have made the final shortlist for the Africa Legal Awards category of "Private Practice Most Promising Newcomer Award". I am forever grateful to my
@kta_law
family for the support and encouragement.
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You simply can never pretend to be apolitical or not interested in politics. The politics will come to your doorstep, affect your livelihood and determine how you earn a living. It will keep you and your clients away from your office for fear of being caught up in the politics
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Hate him or love him, this is what Sepp Blatter meant by spreading the game all over the world! It certainly tilts the balance of power on the pitch.
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Lawyers; remember this famous case in the law of contract? It arose from an influenza pandemic then. What will be the Carlill V Carbolic Smoke Ball of this COVID-19 perid?
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Yesterday, I acted as an Arbitrator in the Vis moot competition between MUK and Cavendish University on International Commercial Arbitration . The participants were exceptional and brilliant to say the least especially in a relatively nascent area in Uganda. The future is bright!
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I am happy to have contributed to the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of International Law's special newsletter on The Legal Impact of COVID-19. My article is entitled "Of COVID-19 and Employment Law in Uganda".
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Lawyers need to write more. Writing goes beyond newspaper articles. Higher-level scholarship in serious law journals is what I mean. There are practitioner-centric ones too. One of the contestants in the recent CJ race in Kenya submitted Court submissions as his publications.
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I am happy to have a discussion and/or debate with
@MosesMagogo
on the National Sports Act, also known as "The Magogo Law" awaiting presidential assent. I have many questions for him.
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Uganda is taking on Kenya in a first of its kind inter-state dispute at the East African Court of Justice. This is in regard to the petroleum-oil importation tiff that has been in the news between the two countries. I hope this is the start of more of these disputes.
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As the dust settles on my friend,
@TumukundeTT
's controversial post, to add a twist, the International Bar Association earlier this year released an interesting report on why young lawyers are leaving the professions. Worth reading and discussing.
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I am grateful for this opportunity. I will present my paper at the 4th Biennial Conference of the African International Economic Law Network in Nairobi, Kenya that will run from the 18-20 at Strathmore University.
#Blessings
#2019Strong
#MambaMentality
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In
@UgandaRugby
style, I have posted a blurry picture of my piece in order to encourage you to buy a copy tomorrow or subscribe online 😂
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Happy to my 20th straight article published today in this column,“Sports & The Law” in the Saturday Monitor over the last 20 weeks. It has become my life’s mission to push this Sports Law agenda in Uganda more aggressively. Along the way I have discovered very interesting things.
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We have a great event coming up next week, 5th December, 2022. Brace yourselves for great paper presentations on an array of topics on Tech Law from CBDC’s, Electronic Signatures, De-fi, video conferencing, tech and international trade, to digital surveillance etc.
#Unmissable
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Soon launching a Sports Law Academic forum. First Call for Papers; "Is there Sports Law in Uganda's Sports Law?"
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I am quite impressed with how Ugandan law firms have embraced or are embracing social media. Ironically, those we previously thought of as very conservative are at the helm of this revolution.
@UgandanLawyer
@ug_lawsociety
@ealawsociety
@a_m_patrick
@NamuliBlazevic
@kta_law
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I am grateful to
@Thepalmagazine
for featuring me. Please read my interview. I hope I had some wisdom to give. Enjoy.
@kta_law
@a_m_patrick
@alexeliud
LAUNCH OF THE JULY 2019 EDITION AND WEBSITE
The PALM brings to you its Tech July Edition.
In this edition we featured
@TheOjakol
the Ugandan Iconoclast.
#uganda
#Nigeria
#Kenya
#blockchain
#fintech
#black
#africa
#ivanojakol
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I have spent the better part of my morning reading some western media articles about the sporting spectacle last night. To say that those guys write beautifully is an understatement!
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Interesting debate in Parliament today over the Sports Bill; Government through the Minister of Sports tries to block Magogo’s Private Member’s Bill, but the Speaker insists that it must be laid before Parliament. Government says that the Bill was harmonized. 1/2
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This week. The Physical Activity and Sports Bill, Uganda’s so-called “sports law” clandestinely resurfaced a couple of weeks ago and according to my hunch will soon become law. My two cents on the law. I have a lot more to say, perhaps in a sequel.
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Tomorrow morning. Be there or be square as we discuss Uganda’s new Sports legal regime just awaiting assent by the President.
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Below is a list of writing opportunities or calls for papers for lawyers and law students. Potential-life changing opportunities. It is a thread.
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Officially ready for the AFCFTA, under which Africa will start trading on the 1st of January, 2020. You can call me "AFCFTA Expert".
@talkmorechidede
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I pay tribute to Hesgoal today. Sports because it’s societal role, a public good that must be enjoyed by all creates an interesting dilemma for the strict application of Intellectual Property Rights. We need a balancing act. Forgive a small typo somewhere.
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Ugandans, I don't know if we have quite realized or recognized yet the greatness we have on our hands in Joshua Cheptegei! This guy is onto something, he keeps on scaling the heights, achieving one feat after another!!!
@DhakabaKigongo
@tragicanon
@onlyzeno
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In my column in today's Saturday Monitor, I discuss the COMESA Competition Commission's seminal decision CAF's media rights agreement with Largarde Sports. There are important takeaways for the sports industry.
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Controversial opinion at this time of the night; sports in Uganda can run without sports federations. Goodnight!
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We might have a record number of Constitutional petitions filed against that Computer Misuse (Amendement) Act.
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The Enabu’s after excelling on the basketball court on land have now taken their excellence to the air!
Ya....Evelyn Enabu of
@UgandaAirlines
flew us from Entebbe to Nairobi today morning 5:50am!
On landing, I went to the cockpit to say thank u for a smooth flight to both pilots!
Was surprised they knew me! And were excited too!
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Speaking about Namboole next to a soldier will be quite some task😂. Tomorrow!
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First piece in the World Cup series that will run up to the end of the World Cup. My column of course will focus on the legal aspects around the World Cup. Buy your Saturday Monitor and enjoy.
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It is a massive honour!
Know your ALC Speakers.
#ALC
Adv. Claire A Rukundo
Adv. Silver Kayondo
Adv. Nicholas Nsava Mbabazi
Adv. Ivan Ojakol
Adv. Arthur Ayorekire
Adv. Itogo Amy Amina
@UgLadyLawyer
@SilverKayondo
@IvanOjakol
@itogot
@PheonaWall
@MoJCA_UG
@UgandanLawyer
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The National Payments Act, 2020 is now law and is supposed to regulate the Fintech industry. Is Fintech only about "Payments"? What about insurtech, What about credit-tech? What about invest-tech? Etc. First problem with that law.
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Today was a good day for the legal academic space in Uganda and Africa.
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We need that Supreme Court Presidential Petition. We must never stop believing in our institutions despite the politics. Let history be the Judge. From a lawyer's view, I look forward to some great litigation skills on display and lessons.
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Sports governance in Uganda will only be sorted out through good, proper and strategic litigation, not conferences, trainings etc!
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Legal Alert; The High Court of Uganda recently held that an award as a result of expert adjudication is not a final award capable of execution. Good jurisprudence for arbitration in Uganda.
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I dare say the early 2010’s Ugandan basketball rivalry between Power-Warriors easily attracted between 5000-8000 fans especially in the finals.
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A constant feature in Kenyan litigation especially during these Presidential election petitions is the fact that some of their top legal academics seem to also be serious litigators. Something rare in Uganda.
@Jonekyoma
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After a lot of thought and 10+ years of watching local rugby, flirting with my Entebbe team, Mongers and every once in a while, KOBS; I would to officially announce that I am now a
@piratesrugbyUG
fan.
@ivan_magomu
where can I get a jersey and we get it rolling?
#SeaRobber
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The erudite Judge discouraged the practice of generally lumping up image rights with other employment and labour rights and obligations in an employment contract. Court was emphatic in stating that the image rights of players are personal!
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Crouch, Bind, Set! I am happy to join the trail-blazing rugby podcast
@fatcatspod
tonight as we discuss sports law trends from a rugby perspective.
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We must credit the Nam Blazers for one thing, they brought back basketball fans and won over more!
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This case is a positive development and good for Sports law jurisprudence especially after the last Image rights case was so near yet so far, Onang & Others V Roofings.
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In today's Saturday Monitor, I opine. Grab your copy and enjoy.
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The average age of the lawyers on either side in the Kenyan Presidential petition stands out. In Uganda, I could be wrong, many 60 yr old lawyers have since more or less moved on from active legal practice. An 80+ Nowrojee, Muite, almost 80 year old Orengo et al are still at it.
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The IBA recently released a report indicating that over half of young lawyers will quit the profession in the next 5 years for various reasons: Poor remuneration, Mental health, Toxic work culture and technology. An important read.
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In as much as I appreciate that the AFCFTA is a long-term project with least developed countries like Uganda given up to 10 years to liberalize upto 90% of their tariff lines, we must still ask "Is Uganda ready?"
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Those controversial clauses; 49 and 50 of the Magogo Sports Bill raise the age-old debate which I have explored in my column quite a bit; who owns sports? what amounts to being a sports stakeholder? How far should commercial interests in sports, a public good go? 1/2
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Check out my latest article: The New UCC Licensing regime leaves a lot to be desired via
@LinkedIn
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Looking forward to speaking yet again at this
@hipipo
event next week on the topic “Enabling Regulation for Digital Financial Services”.
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I encourage lawyers out there especially the ones that fit the title "Young Lawyer" to follow Frank Ramos, Managing Partner at a Miami law firm called Clarke Silvergate on LinkedIn. He churns out invaluable nuggets of wisdom on a daily.
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The many so-called "tech law experts" of our times keep on bungling and confusing "Data Protection" and "Data Privacy" and by extension "Data Security".
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I am happy to be hosted by the inimitable
@Cucubrian
on Uganda's leading basketball podcast. We shall discuss all things basketball legal and matters incidental to. Make it a date!
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There was a great Sports show back in the day on Vision Voice featuring Joseph Opio (now works with Trevor Noah), Joseph Kanaaba, Charles Mutebi, Paul Mbuga (now so absorbed in lawyering), and Robert Madoi. Even
@DhakabaKigongo
will agree with me that those guys were fantastic.
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Justice Mubiru settled the debate by stating that because Image rights are derived from the Constitution under the right to privacy as opposed to Copyright which has its own statute, Image rights prevail over Copyright.
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Kenya's Sports Act is a strong one but even it has perhaps failed to rein in Nicholas Mwendwa. Sports duo governance mechanisms as public and private will forever clash. This is a fight that I have previously written about
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The high-quality journalism at the Daily Monitor shaped many of my early years as a teenager and way into my 20s. I literally read every piece carried in the paper 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Happy 30th birthday to the Daily Monitor and may truth continue being told everyday!
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The Uganda Law Society
@ug_lawsociety
out did itself with the 5th Annual Law Conference that happened on the 25th-26th of August. I was honoured to have appeared as a moderator and panelists on topics on the AfCFTA on both days.What a splendid event. Congratulations to the ULS!
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I am delighted, honoured, humbled and grateful to have been chosen among the inaugural mentees of the Young ITA (Institute of Transnational Arbitration) Mentorship Program. I am going to be mentored by some of the very best in the world of International Arbitration.
#NextLevel
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It was a pleasure to have been a panelist at the recently concluded HiPipo
#40days40fintechs
event where I appeared on a panel discussing Uganda's national payment systems legal regime especially as it relates to Uganda's marginalized groups
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It is easy to take for granted what
@LoukmanAli
has achieved with
#girlintheyellowjumper
. I was involved in a couple of pitches in 2020 with
@LoukmanAli
's colleague, Andrew Ahuura where the same project was pitched to a couple of Venture Capitalists. 1/2
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I am happy to be hosted tomorrow morning on NTV’s “Morning
@NTV
” to discuss matters sports and Uganda’s budget.
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In my first article in my column in the Saturday Monitor, "Sports and the Law" in the Saturday of May 28th, 2022, I warned that "Sentamu could have inadvertently through his defiance performed as a revolutionary act that could spark the Image rights revolution in Ugandan sport"
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I am honoured to participate as a panelist at the 1st East African Conference on the "Legal Implications of the East African Integration". A brilliant panel that will be moderated by Francis
@FGimara
SC and also comprise eminent legal minds like Mr. Paul Mwaka.
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Of these so-called "Documentaries" and the Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2019, Laws of Uganda.
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Uganda's small legal services market is getting interesting. It is a different era. Therefore law firms that do not appeal to the millennial will become irrelevant soon. Adapt or perish!
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We have a Competition Law now (it is a bit meek in my view, nonetheless we shall work with it). There a lot been a lot of anti-competitive practices in the sports sector. We have guidance from elsewhere.
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The UCU Canons have given us a Game 7.
That win means so much to the Ugandan basketball faithful for its symbolism.
The law of averages dictates that the Canons will eventually become Champions this year.
If not for anything, the Canons will atleast win it for Albert Ahabwe!
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I recently met the great Prof. Melaku Desta of UNECA/ Africa Trade Policy Centre. Prof. is a mentor of mine, top International Trade/ IEL lawyer and academic and certainly one of Africa’s best legal minds. Major takeaway from our conversation; “Invest in the longterm”.
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One of the most tired discussions on Ugandan TV is from Ugandan musicians "There is no law on Copyright", "The Copyright Law is not strong enough". This is even after all these initiatives from URSB, UPRS, Salim Saleh etc to create awareness. You have to make the law work.
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Thank you for hosting me.
There is so much power vested in the
@NCSUganda1
that when you talk about their discrepancies as a sports federation, you may end up not getting funds. That also needs to be limited. -
@IvanOjakol
#NBSportThisMorning
|
#NBSportUpdates
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The case also pronounces itself on a couple of other things but among the sub-plots was the Court's pronouncement on the tension between Copyright and Image rights when it comes to these Image rights cases.
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@DhakabaKigongo
's explanation puts things into perspective. We should cut the NCS some slack sometimes, they are not perfect but they operate in an interesting country under interesting circumstances.
#NTVPressbox
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Justice Sekaana is the real deal! As candid as it gets in the profession as far as young lawyers are concerned.
#YLMS4
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The column is back; Competition law might just help us sort out sports governance issues in this country.
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I might not miss an Allan Okello game at Lugogo going forward!
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@RocketHealthUG
has revolutionized telemedicine in Uganda in "Silicon Valles-que" mould of "Move fast and break things". I think we have a potential unicorn on our hands here.
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Just read about Morocco’s “Mohammed VI’s Academy”. These things are not accidental!
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Academics deserve their dues. Academic scholarship is quite some task especially if you are writing for publication in a respected peer-reviewed academic journal. The rejections are in and of themselves enough to swear one off academic writing.
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I am happy to co- moderate this event with my colleague,
@MunaabiP
.
Our speakers like
@drukare
, Moses Mwase,
@JohnOhaga
, Odonga Otto, among others will present on some of great topics and some the latest trends in Sports Law. Even that Image rights case will be discussed.
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Looking forward to speaking on this wonderful panel tomorrow.
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