James Nangwala

{{short description|Ugandan lawyer and academic}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = James Nangwala

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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1964}}

| birth_place = Uganda

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| alma_mater = Makerere University
{{small|(Bachelor of Laws)}}
Law Development Centre
{{small|(Diploma in Legal Practice)}}

| occupation = Lawyer

| years_active = 1988 - present

| nationality = Ugandan

| citizenship = Uganda

| known_for = Legal Skills

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| title = Partner
Nagwala, Rezida & Company Advocates

| spouse ={{small|Mrs. Nagwala}}

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James Nangwala is a Ugandan lawyer notable for his defence of The Monitor (Uganda) Newspaper editors Charles Onyango-Obbo and Andrew Mwenda.{{cite web

|title=History made

|work=The Independent

|date=8 September 2010

|url=http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/cover-story/cover-story/82-cover-story/3419-history-made

|accessdate=24 December 2010

|url-status=dead

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101226212053/http://independent.co.ug/index.php/cover-story/cover-story/82-cover-story/3419-history-made

|archivedate=26 December 2010

}}{{cite web

|title=Case Against Daily Monitor Editors Kicks Off

|work=African Center for Media Excellence

|date=11 November 2010

|url=http://www.acme-ug.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=113:case-against-daily-monitor-editors-kicks-off&catid=7:news&Itemid=44

|accessdate=24 December 2010}}{{cite news

|last=Hansrod

|first=Zeenat

|title=Uganda scraps sedition laws - good news for journalists?

|work=RFI

|date=4 September 2010

|url=http://www.english.rfi.fr/africa/20100904-insight-into-ugandas-scrapping-sedition-laws

|accessdate=24 December 2010}} He was formerly the head of the Bar Course at the Law Development Centre, the Statutory Body charged with the sole responsibility of training lawyers in Uganda.{{cite web

|title=Postgraduate & Legal Studies

|work=Law development Centre

|url=http://www.ldc.ac.ug/homepage/index.php/departments.html

|accessdate=24 December 2010

|url-status=dead

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120165413/http://www.ldc.ac.ug/homepage/index.php/departments.html

|archivedate=20 November 2010

}}{{cite news|last=Vaughan|first=Jenny|title=Is it Time to Get Rid of 1.5 at Makerere?|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200908030189.html|accessdate=29 December 2010|newspaper=The Monitor|date=1 August 2009}} He is currently a senior lecturer at Makerere University.{{cite web|last=Berns|first=BT|title=The Uganda Land Issue|url=http://www.seekcharlie.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/uganda-land-issue.pdf|accessdate=29 December 2010|location=Kampala, Uganda|pages=68|date=October 2009}}

During November 2009, after the first day of his defense of the Monitor editors in court, Nangwala was shot in the shoulder while outside of his home.{{cite book|last=Patterson|first=Phillip|title=Media Ethics: Issues and Cases|year=2007|publisher=McGraw-Hill Higher Education|isbn=978-0-07-351189-4|pages=50|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JzscAQAAIAAJ&q=James+Nangwala|author2=Lee Wilkins|accessdate=28 December 2010|quote=After his first day in the courtroom, the defense lawyer for The Monitor editors, James Nangwala, was shot by unidentified gunmen in front of his home. He was hit in the shoulder, and Mafabi adjourned the trial until January 2000.}} He was seriously wounded and subsequently had to be operated on.{{cite news|title=Monitor's lawyer in Intensive Care Unit.|url=http://business.highbeam.com/3548/article-1G1-57530263/monitor-lawyer-intensive-care-unit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010205112/http://business.highbeam.com/3548/article-1G1-57530263/monitor-lawyer-intensive-care-unit|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 October 2012|accessdate=28 December 2010|newspaper=Africa News Service|date=12 November 1999}} The shooting caused the trial to be adjourned until January 2000. Three men were tried for the shooting during June 2010 and were charged with conspiracy to murder and attempted murder. One of the men was a police officer.{{cite news|title=Nangwala shooting was plotted in bar.|url=http://business.highbeam.com/3548/article-1G1-62798352/nangwala-shooting-plotted-bar|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011005451/http://business.highbeam.com/3548/article-1G1-62798352/nangwala-shooting-plotted-bar|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 October 2012|accessdate=28 December 2010|newspaper=Africa News Service|date=19 June 2000}}