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Elizabeth Kabanda

Ugandan lawyer and judge

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ51558144 ↗
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Elizbeth Kibula Kabanda is a Ugandan lawyer and judge, who serves as a Justice of the High Court of Uganda, since 2013. Prior to that, she served as the Deputy Registrar in-charge of the Criminal Division of High Court.

Background and education

She was admitted to Makerere University, Uganda's oldest and largest public university, to study law, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws degree. She also has a Diploma in Legal Practice, obtained from the Law Development Centre, in Kampala. She is a registered legal practitioner in Uganda and a member of the Uganda Bar.

Career

When she was first appointed to the High Court, she was assigned to the Land Division. In 2015, she was transferred from the Land Division to the Criminal Division.

In 2016, Justice Kabanda was assigned to the newly-created Mpigi Circuit, on a caretaker basis. She also served temporarily in the Mubende Circuit in 2016 and early 2017.

One of the cases she has presided over, include the case of State vs Stella Nyanzi, where the government accuses Stella Nyanzi, of two counts of Cyber Harassment and Offensive Communication contrary to the Computer Misuse Act of 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Elizabeth Kabanda” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.