Regardless of frontiers" interrogating the legitimacy of defamation laws in Uganda today

Abstract

This dissertation is aimed at interrogating the legitimacy of defamation laws in Uganda, particularly within the context of the right to freedom of expression. The paper critically examines the law, policy, and practice on defamation with a view to establishing the extent to which defamation law disproportionately inhibits the enjoyment of the right to freedom of expression. In other words, the study seeks to primarily affirm that defamation law poses an atrocious frontier to the full enjoyment of the right to freedom of expression and makes the case that defamation law in its current state has no place in post-independent and contemporary Uganda. This, therefore, justifies an urgent need for liberalization of the law on defamation to harmonize them with prevailing international human rights standard