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Clerk’s Diary

Dear Diary, I am glad to be back at work. The holidays are a time for relaxation, for refreshment and for rejuvenation. But these are merely passive processes; they tend to occur naturally once the mind and body have been separated from the usual stresses to which they are invariably subjected by the routine demands […]

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Legal Alert! Conflict of Interest: What Is It and What Is Being Done About It?

Introduction In 1939, Winston Churchill, the then-First Lord of Admiralty of his Majesty’s Government, described the Soviet Union as, “A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” I believe that were he alive today, he would not object if I used the same words to describe the Kenyan understanding of conflict of interest. In

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Courtroom Traditions

It is alleged that one day, nobody knows exactly when, but probably some time in the year 2019, someone, nobody knows exactly where, but probably in some place called Wuhan, some man, nobody knows exactly who, but some man, ate a bat. Nobody knows why he ate a bat; maybe he was hungry, maybe adventurous,

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Arbitrator’s Jusrisdiction to Issues an Additional Award in Kenya

IntroductionThe new Constitution 2010 ushered with it a paradigm shift towards the concept of access to justice. Article 159 (2) (c) provides that in exercising judicial authority, the Courts and tribunals shall be guided by a set of principles, among them, promoting the use of alternative dispute resolution, including; arbitration, reconciliation, mediation and traditional dispute

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