by Caxstone Kigata and Frankline Otieno | May 9, 2022 | Legal update
“Kenya’s history of electoral processes since the multiparty era have depicted highly contested, ‘do or die’ processes. While coming at the tail end of the electoral management process, dispute resolution plays a critical part in ensuring free and fair elections.”...
by Caxstone Kigata, Kennedy Kithinji and Damaris Muia | Nov 25, 2021 | Legal update
A. Introduction “When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.” By Ralph Waldo Emerson Succession or inheritance is defined in the Black’s Law Dictionary 5th Edition as “the devolution of title to property under the law of descent and distribution. The...
by Allen Waiyaki Gichuhi C.Arb SC and Caxstone Kigata | Nov 16, 2021 | Legal update
“The kind of fasting I want is this: Remove the chains of oppression and the yoke of injustice, and let the oppressed go free” so says Isaiah 58:6. A Garnishee is defined as a party who is in possession of money or property of a debtor and has been notified by...
by Allen Waiyaki Gichuhi C.Arb SC, Caxstone Kigata and Prestone Wawire | Sep 21, 2021 | Legal alerts
The Chief Justice and President of the Republic of Kenya, published a new Court Fees Assessment Schedule vide Gazette Notice No. 6830 (link). The notice indicates that the said schedule is to apply to the lodging or filing of respective documents in the relevant...
by Charles Wamae and Caxstone Kigata | Aug 18, 2021 | Legal alerts
INTRODUCTION History repeats itself and the 1905 precedent set by the United States Supreme Court in Jacobson v Massachusetts on compulsory immunizations seeks to repeat itself. In a snapshot during the small pox pandemic, the US Supreme Court legitimized the...
