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...
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...
Introduction Billy Collins, an American Poet once said that: “The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you’re simply using a pen to record what you have...
As with all other areas of law, intellectual property rights came along so as to protect an individual’s intangible creation and innovation of the mind. Nick Harckaway, author of the Blind Giant, expressed his idea of intellectual property in the following words:...
Van Vechten Veeder, a United States Judge stated: “one’s good name is as truly the product of one’s efforts as any physical possession; indeed, it alone gives to material possessions their value.” It therefore follows that a person’s name or reputation...
The former Chief Justice, Dr. Willy Mutunga firmly stated in the year 2012, that colonial mindsets have persisted, in the executive, the legislature and, unfortunately, even in the judiciary, even after independence. In a bid to promote progressive jurisprudence in...
