"When asked if she had ever agreed with others to "intimidate [the woman] to stop her giving evidence" during the trial, she replied: "No, I would never do that.""

"Throughout her career, Justice Mugenyi has been able to demonstrate leadership skills; She has a strong results-oriented work ethos; exemplary integrity professionalism and accountability; An excellent communicator with interpersonal skills, and a formidable team player."

"Justice Mugenyi urges women leaders to show up, be present, and be visible."

"Her advice to women in legal leadership is to develop a healthy work ethic and to create a positive personal brand— you must be known for having integrity and producing results."

"Lydia Mugambe used her position to exploit a vulnerable young woman, controlling her freedom and making her work without payment."

"This is what happens exactly when they come, they get excited about the pound and then they want to work much more than the terms they came on, so that's what she wants."

"She doesn't want to go, who wants to go back to Africa when she can work?"

"For me, I'm a judge, I'm OK but if you didn't have much to do... she would want to stay."

"Mugenyi has never tried to depict her experience as a young female judge as easy."

"Mugenyi’s story is a story of perseverance and determination to get the job done. While she has had to face opposition from men and women who did not see her as deserving of her promotions, she has gone out of her way to support and uplift current and future female leaders through her presence at numerous conferences and webinars on women leaders in law."

"We had not responded to them since our judgement but the same is in black and white and as judges, I think we did our job"

"We have received a lot of community backlash for the annulment of the anti-gay law."

"The judgement is in black and white and those who are aggrieved with it should appeal before the Supreme Court."

"I believe freedom of expression is a human right just like other rights and I think every judicial officer at every level needs training in human rights, and most certainly on freedom of expression, because it is critical to interpret law within a human rights perspective. We must also remember that freedom of expression is important for democracy, good governance and the rule of law and that these three are really the bedrock of development."

"It only covers sexual assaults of women and does not recognise men as possible victims. It is concerned with the absence of consent either because force was used or because the consent was a result of fraud and falsehood. Prosecutors must also deal with the issue of the state of mind of the accused. If there is no mental fault, it is not regarded as rape. Honest belief in consent is enough to free the accused from criminal liability even if that belief might seem unreasonable."

"Reducing crime must be preceded by interrogating society’s views on the crime in question. Knowing what society considers acceptable behaviour may explain the prevalence of an offence."

"There is a need to change the social not just the legal understandings of rape in Uganda. Like with any other social phenomena, crime can only be understood by interrogating the broad social context within which it occurs. To understand issues of sexuality and sexual encounters between men and women, it is crucial that the discussion is placed within the discourse of gender in Uganda’s patriarchal society."

"We must be where decisions are made. Of course we know that the legal profession is wide. And a young generation should be aware that there is a possibility that what they are engaged in today, may not be what they will be engaged in decades ahead."

"We must position women. The feminization of the legal profession will have meaning only if women are positioned in high levels of this practice. Because this is where decisions are made."

"One of the things I realised is that academic work, scholarly work or legal scholarship, is actually an advantage to a person because we are talking about discussing principles of law, especially when you are serving in the highest court, the court which has the last say in dispute resolution."

"I know that these inequalities are reproduced in the family, the community and they are also reproduced in the workplace where we find ourselves as lawyers. Women lawyers can bring about substantive changes not only in the practice of the law, but in the law itself"

"I think the African human rights regime has taken up this issue, which is illustrated in the way the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights has expounded on the right to access to information as a tool for socio-economic development. This will have a trickle-down effect as we are dealing with the issues at the regional level. However, it is also important to deal with these issues at the national level through institutions that we all ascribe to, such as the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights and the African Court on Human and People’s Rights, because that jurisprudence cannot be questioned by Member States. I also think that, the fact that social media today has thrived, really helps spreading the information on violations out there."

"When we talk about the need to protect journalists, both men and women must be protected. But there is no doubt that women journalists are more vulnerable to certain kinds of violations of rights which perhaps men are not as vulnerable to. It is important to recognize that, when discussing the protection of rights, the groups we talk about are not homogenous. This is the reason why we must talk about violence against women specifically when discussing violence against journalists. In other words actors interested in protecting the human rights of journalists must put on a gender lense and mainstream gender into their work."