Rights Action Advocates Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Rights Action Advocates firm was launched in April 1992 at Darussalam, Tanzania. Mrs. Magdalena K. Rwebangira has promoted the firm who has been practicing law since 1978. Rights Action Advocates started with only two staff an advocate and a Secretary. Currently, the firm is staffed with three practicing advocates of the High Court of Tanzania.

Rights Action Advocates focuses on corporate, institutional formation and development, commercial law, family, reproductive health, property and human rights law including legal aid and constitutionalism. The core areas of experience include formation of companies, due diligences in establishment of business, negotiating joint ventures including financing, guarantees and implementation conveyance instruments and processing transactions; attending negotiations, arbitration, implementation and evaluation meetings on behalf of clients. Others activities in the law firm include preparation and review of contracts, preparing and processing conveyance transactions, providing counsel and legal opinion, due diligence in financing agreements, joint ventures, liquidation/ insolvency, receivership, mortgages and other securities registration, company secretaries and litigation.

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Clients

The Clients of Rights Action Advocates include individuals, private companies, manufactures, broadcasters, institutions of higher learning, hospitals and traders and banks. Embassies, development partners, international organizations, microfinance institutions, public institutions, the Government of Tanzania, civil society organizations, UN agencies and the World Bank are also in the list of clients of the firm.

Staff

Rights Action Advocates is a firm of experienced, authorized practitioners with expertise in Family Law, Corporate Law, Gender and Human Rights. These services are carried out by a team of committed lawyers under management of its founder Magdalena K. Rwebangira, advocate of the High Court of Tanzania and Managing Partner. Rose ShubiMutakyawa, advocate of the High Court of Tanzania, Petronella George Njiamoja as Legal Officer, AlistidesMuganyiziKatundu as Chambers Clerk, Mustafa Abbas Hassan as Driver and Sara Benjamin Chuma as Secretary.

Practice Areas

1. Corporate and Commercial Law Services

Corporate and Commercial Law services include formation of companies, Trusts, Associations, Joint Ventures, Financing Agreements, General and specialized contracts and Memorandums of Understanding, Drawing of Legal Instruments, Transfer of Shares, Winding up etc.

2. Family Law Service

Family Law services include advice and litigation on: adoption, judicial separation, divorce, division of matrimonial assets, custody of children and action against abusive spouses.

3. Probate and Administration Services

Probate and Administration services include advice and litigation in applications for letters of administration, filing caveats to object to applications for letters of administration by undeserving administrators nominated by other family members but whom other members may have reason to mistrust, will writing; entitlements of beneficences under different systems of law applicable to the deceased.

4. Conveyancing Services

Conveyancing services include transfer of landed property, leases, mortgages etc.

5. Gender and Human Rights Law Services

Gender and Human Rights Law services include research, workshop facilitation, consultancy, application of human rights based approach to programming, constitutional law etc.

6. Others

Other areas serviced by the firm are: Commercial, Workers' Compensation, Human Rights, etc.