by Charles Wamae, Damaris Muia and Ivy Mburu | Nov 10, 2021 | Legal update
ISSUES FOR DETERMINATION (a) Whether an Advocate qualified under section 9 of the Advocates Act and practicing in his own name is required to register under the Registration of Business Names Act, Cap 499; 1. Pursuant to the Amendment to section 32 of the Advocates...
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...
by Charles Wamae, Virginiah Nduta, Janeirene Maina, Shalma Maina and Lynda Kemunto | Aug 9, 2021 | Legal alerts
The Cabinet Secretary for Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning, pursuant to regulation 4 (4) of the Land Registration (Registration Units) Order, 2017, Published a Conversion and Migration List vide Gazette Notice No.7146 (Click here). The Cabinet Secretary is...
by Charles Wamae | May 18, 2021 | Legal update
A. Introduction A Share can be defined as a single unit of ownership in a Company. It is transferred from one person to another through a share transfer document duly executed by or on behalf of both the transferor and the transferee. Section 497 of the Companies Act...
by Charles Wamae, Virginiah Nduta, Janeirene Maina, Shalma Maina and Lynda Kemunto | May 13, 2021 | Legal alerts
INTRODUCTION On 11th December 2020, President Uhuru Kenyatta signed the Sectional Properties Act, 2020 into law repealing the Sectional Properties Act, 1987. The Sectional Properties Act, 2020 mainly simplifies the process of registering sectional properties in...