Dignity of women under the constitution is compromised if bride price refunded, declares Ugandan Supreme Court

<div><p>The Supreme Court has ruled that the refund of bride price by the woman’s parents or relatives upon a failed marriage is unconstitutional. </p></div><div><p>But the same court declined to declare that practice of demanding for payment of bride-price as a precondition for customary marriage as unconstitutional. This means that paying of bride price by the boy’s side to the parents of the girl is to continue. </p></div><div><p>In a majority judgment of 6:1, Justice Jotham Tumwesigye who wrote the lead judgment observed that it’s unfair to demand a refund of bride price from the woman’s parents after years of marriage. </p></div><div><p>The judge added that it’s not likely that the parents of the woman would be keeping the property ready to refund. </p>
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