Browsing by Author "Nayiga, Sauda"

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A comparative analysis of the rights of a child under the Nigerian and Ugandan laws
(2008-01) Ijaiya, Bashir. Leke; Nayiga, Sauda; Mbajja, Rukia
A comparative analysis of the rights of a child under the Nigerian and ugandan laws
(journal of comparative law, 2008-01) Ijaiya, Bashir Leke; Nayiga, Sauda; Mbajja, Rukia
The joy of every parent is to bear and have children; this is because this life will appear to be worthless if a man born of a woman could not in turn reproduce and procreate to have his own children too. it is a blessing from God which every parent always prays for. be that as it may, the right of a child begins from when it is yet unborn to the age of adulthood. in fact a child deserves rights from both the parents and the society. no wonder the rights of a child have been the concern of the governments at both the national and the international levels
The role of public opinion in court decisions on the legality of the death penalty
(Islamic University in Uganda, 2017) Tumwine, W; Nayiga, Sauda
There are various schools of thought on the role of public opinion in court decisions especially on the death penalty. A person’s view of the role of public opinion will be profoundly affected by whether the public he or she is thinking of is the totality of the electorate, those paying attention to the issue or some other group. Some categorically disapprove of any effective role of public opinion. While some argue that it should play a role in court decisions on the death penalty, others say that there is a role, but not a determinative one reasoning that judicial ethics and rules do not allow consulting the masses, but courts do not decide the law in the vacuum and so society influences are inevitable. Other schools of thought suggest that there is a role, but are not sure what it is and the rest think that public opinion should have no role at all in court decisions on the legality of the death penalty. The rest offer a critique without choosing sides. This enhances the debate and it can be discerned from the above views that determining the role of public opinion in court decisions is no easy task. It is even harder when dealing with death penalty cases because they affect the right to life. What emerges as the strongest school of thought is that public opinion has no effective role to play in court decisions as it takes into consideration the reality of public opinion while at the same time promoting judicial ethics.
Surgical separation of thoraopagus twins
(Islamic University in Uganda, 2017) Walusimbi, Abdul Hafiz; Nayiga, Sauda
Eng and Chang bunker were the first pair of conjoined twins recorded in medical annals of gynaecology and obstetrics. Born in Siam, Thailand today, on May 10, 1811, attached by a five- inch connecting ligament near their breastbones, Eng. and Chang grew and lived a fairly private life and involved in successful business in North Carolina. They later married sisters, Sallie and Adelaide Yates respectively, produced 21 children between them and lived until they passed away in 1874 at the age of 63 years. It was after their death that medical doctors established that surgical separation could have been possible. Recent statistics put the rate of conjoined twins at a range of 1 in 50000 to 1 in 200000 births. Though conjoined twins have been the subject of scientific exhibits and medical study for quite a long time, it became a subject of courtroom battle in 2000, when the surgical separation of conjoined twins, Jodie and Mary, the children of Michael Angelo and Rina Attard of the Maltese Island of Gozo surfaced and sought judicial intervention. The case illustrated the difficulty of applying legal principles to unprecedented life-and-death decisions involving proposed medical interventions for children- particularly when parents and physicians disagree about what should be done. Despite the proliferation of sophisticated surgery techniques, the risk of surgical separation still stands high; in case of survival of both of them, anaesthesia, surgical complications, and other effects usually follow the successful separation process. But despite all these effects, medical doctors are convinced that the present quality of life is so worthless that the risky dangerous surgery is justified and should be performed. This research presents the Islamic law (Shar'iah) perspective towards the surgical separation of Thoraopagus conjoined twins whose separation involves certain death of a weaker twin to save the stronger one as presented in the cases of twins Jane and Louisa and Mary and Jodie that will be reviewed in this paper.