Mugambe was appointed to the UN's judicial roster in May 2023, three months after police were called to her address in Oxfordshire, according to her UN profile page.

Ugandan High court Judge Lydia Mugambe has been found guilty of modern slavery by the Oxford Crown Court for illegally bringing a housemaid to the UK and refusing to pay her for her services. She is scheduled to be sentenced on May 2 and faces life imprisonment.

United Nations judge Lydia Mugambe, 49, was accused of taking "advantage of her status" over the woman in the 'most egregious way', while she studied for a PhD in law at the University of Oxford