PROFILE OF THE AUTHOR
( Document No.12, November 2000)

Florence N. DOLLO is a holder of a LLB (Honours) Degree from Makerere University, Kampala-Uganda obtained in 1990. She obtained a Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre in 1991. She also has a Masters of Law (LLM, Legislative Drafting) with a distinction in Legislative Drafting and Research obtained at the University of the West Indies, Barbados in 1998.

She has been practising law in Uganda since 1992. She is also a Lecturer at Law Development Centre teaching Legislative Drafting, Family Law, Criminology, Penology and Criminal Law. She has written a number of papers on the above subjects and is a consultant on Legislative Drafting. As a consultant she has trained clerks and Research Assistants for the Parliament of Uganda, members of the Tax Appeals Tribunal and Land Tribunals, State Prosecutors and also trained lawyers at the International Law Institute, Kampala-Uganda. She has also drafted laws like the National Forestry Authority Bill, 2000.

She is also a law practitioner and partner in a firm of advocates. She is a member and vice chair person of the National Organisation for Civic Education and Election Monitoring, member of FIDA womens law association counselling clients, rural legal education and human rights, and a member of the Uganda Law Society of which she is a legal practitioner. She has also been faculty at the International Law Institute and also at Police Training School in Kampala. Ms Dollo has written several publications and papers on various law topics.

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