Search engines like Google have made it incredibly easy to access vast amounts of information with little effort. Many lawyers now prefer to go online for their legal research. Lawyers are citing online sources to establish legal and factual positions in their submission briefs to court and, in turn, judges are citing them in their opinions. Judges are also conducting online research to better understand the complexities of disputes before them. This paper examines the challenges arising from the citation of online sources in judicial opinions in Uganda. It argues that while there are significant benefits to relying on Internet sources, there are also challenges like inaccuracy of online information, excessive reliance on non-legal sources and inaccessibility of some online sources. It concludes with recommendations for best practices that can be adopted by the Ugandan courts in dealing with these limitations when citing online authorities.

像Google这样的搜索引擎使轻松地访问大量信息变得异常容易。现在，许多律师更喜欢上网进行法律研究。律师引用在线资源在其向法院提交的摘要中确立法律和事实立场，而法官又引用他们的意见。法官们还在进行在线研究，以更好地理解摆在他们面前的纠纷的复杂性。本文探讨了乌干达司法意见中引用在线资源引起的挑战。它认为，尽管依靠互联网资源有很多好处，但同时也面临着诸如在线信息不准确，过度依赖非合法来源以及某些在线资源无法访问等挑战。