by Caxstone Kigata | Sep 21, 2020 | Legal update
Enforcement of foreign judgments in Kenya is the subject of The Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act (Cap 43 of the Laws of Kenya). The objective of the Act is to make provision for enforcement of judgments given in countries outside Kenya which accord... 
by Caxstone Kigata and Maurine Sumba | Sep 15, 2020 | Legal update
Introduction Employees are contractually obliged to perform their assigned tasks to satisfactory levels. Though the Employment Act may be scanty as regards what constitute a poor performance, the key consideration would be that the employee should have failed to meet... 
by Caxstone Kigata and Joseph Muhuni | Sep 9, 2020 | Legal update
Justice should not only be done but seen to be done. Whenever parties appear before a judge, they expect them to be fair and serve justice to them. However, the law is not blind to the possibility of bias and therefore provides for the mechanism through which... 
by Faith Mwaka and Joseph Muhuni | Jul 22, 2020 | Legal update
The Data Protection Act (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) came into force in Kenya on the 25th November 2019 to inter alia regulate the processing of personal data and to provide a legal and institutional mechanism to protect personal data. Since its enactment,... 
by Faith Mwaka and Shalma Maina | Jun 29, 2020 | Legal update
The Business Laws (Amendment) Act came into force on 18th March 2020. The law has amended various statutes in order to facilitate the ease of doing business in Kenya. This article seeks to analyze the practicality of the amendments and how they are likely to impact... 
by Allen Gichuhi, Charles Wamae, Melanie Munyori and Ambrose Waigwa | Jun 10, 2020 | Legal update
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the government adopted a severe lockdown policy, including suspending all public gatherings and stopping movement of persons across certain counties, in order to curb or otherwise contain the spread of the virus. In particular,...
