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The Small Claims Court in Kenya

 Introduction The Small Claims Court (the Court) was established by the Small Claims Act 2016, which was assented to on 1st April 2016 and amended by the Small Claims Court (Amendment) Act, 2020, assented to on 30th April 2020, (the Act). The Court was gazetted vide Gazette Notice No.  3791 ….Read more

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Importance of Probation in Employment

Importance of Probation in Employment Employment contracts are governed by the Employment Act, 2007 (the Act). The Act provides an option for employers to place their new employees on probation before the confirmation of employment to ascertain their suitability and capability for the assigned role or position. As a ….Read more

Risks in Lending Transactions during COVID-19 period

Risks in Lending Transactions during COVID-19 period COVID-19 has affected the way we do businesses. We have prepared the following risk matrix highlighting some of the issues that we think are likely to recur in the lending space during and immediately after this COVID-19 period. This is not a ….Read more

Review of the Energy Act, 2019

Review of the Energy Act, 2019 The Energy Act, 2019 (the Act) came into effect on 28th March 2019 this year, repealing the Energy Act, 2006 (the Repealed Act), the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Board Order No. 131 of 2012 and the Geothermal Resources Act, 1982. The Energy Act has ….Read more

Significance of the proposed Law of Contract (Amendment) Bill, 2019

Introduction The House Business Committee of the Kenya National Assembly is set to consider the contents of the Law of Contract (Amendment) Bill, 2019 (the Bill) which is scheduled to come up for the second reading in the National Assembly. The Bill proposes to amend section 3 of the ….Read more

Employment Act (Amendment) Bill, 2019

Parliament, the Kenya Law Reform Commission and the State Department for Labour are in the process of reviewing the provisions of the Employment Act, 2007 (the Act). The proposed amendments to the Act will constitute some of the most significant change to the employment law landscape in Kenya. The ….Read more

New Property Registration Process

Introduction Recently, the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning (the Ministry) has issued a public notice to the public stating that it has re-engineered and simplified the land registration process from a nine (9) steps process to a three (3) steps process. The aim of the new process is ….Read more

High Court Decision relating to the Interest Rate Capping

Introduction On 7th March 2019, a three (3) Judge Bench of the High Court sitting in Nairobi declared the interest capping provision unconstitutional on the basis that it is vague, ambiguous, imprecise and indefinite. The constitutional petition filed by Boniface Oduor in the case of Boniface Oduor v Attorney ….Read more

Insider Trading in Kenya

The Capital Markets Authority (the CMA) is the regulatory body mandated to supervise, license and monitor the activities of market intermediaries, including the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) and the Central Depository and Settlement System and all the other persons licensed under the Capital Markets Act, Chapter 485A of the ….Read more

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