In a scathing 44-page Judgment, the Commercial Division of the High Court has adjudged and punished deceased law doyen Prof. George Wilson Kanyeihamba, also a former Justice of the Supreme Court, for stealing and profiting from a researcher's manuscript.
Commercial Court Judge, Justice Stephen Mubiru, found that the prolific writer on constitutional law and political history whose books are recommended reading in law schools and for legal practitioners, held a “massive imbalance” in terms of professional stature relative to the researcher and had leveraged this position as the original author of the 1975 law book and attempted to “completely exploit…
