Month: September 2016

  CAVEAT TAKE NOTICE that WE The residents of Jurisdiction claim interest in the affairs of her boundaries, without prejudice to all bonafide borrowers of each maritime she owns; and the instruments of proprietorship on all demarcated assets.   TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that Whilst her leaders drown in guilt because their belch choke yawns, her… Continue reading Caveat

Out of 100 people randomly selected on the streets of Nairobi, more than 50 hate their jobs.  This is a predicament our labour industry has failed to cure. The reasons for hating their jobs vary: terrible bosses, unfair policies at work, poor pay, terrible colleagues, among many others. Other people hate their jobs because their… Continue reading Does time to and from work constitute working time?

Mr. and Mrs. Smith will soon be no more, summer is over and winter is here. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are going to divorce after the latter filed divorced papers after two years of a Hollywood romance. Divorce is a human construct and it is to humans what winding up is to the corporate… Continue reading I Need A Break!

Mustapha Lule survived. He jumped from a tall building (whether willfully or unconsciously), fell down on the street, but did not die. No one knows why he jumped. A few stories whose reliability cannot be confirmed have reported him saying that he fell, but accidentally. That he only climbed up the building to get some… Continue reading A Death Wish

It is important to have an insight however small into how to handle any legal issue. Because of the lack of knowledge or the limitations in our quest for knowledge, we do things which if we had knowledge, we would not have done. The Good Book says that to the quest of knowledge, there is… Continue reading Why You Must Know Your Rights!

As with every action there is corresponding reaction, there is both excitement and reservation that Kenya’s Judicial Service Commission, has, from the many contenders, chosen a nominee for the office of Chief Justice that they believe will be a worthy replacement of the former, Willy Mutunga. After the stringent, but, thankfully competitive, transparent, and successful… Continue reading Finally, a Substantive Chief Justice

Growing up, I was not exposed to tobacco smoking. But I have a close friend who was. For what she remembers about her childhood, there is an image of her father smoking a cigarette. The house, she says, always had a murky aura about it. They were not well off. The father was unemployed and… Continue reading Regulation of Tobacco Products

The right to privacy is central to human dignity. One cannot talk of human dignity without talking of the right to privacy. That is why searches in criminal law must be warranted; that is why any evidence gathered on an unwarranted search is inadmissible before a competent court of law. It, – the right to… Continue reading Why you need a privacy policy

According to the BBC, this is a concise statistic about South Sudan: Country: South Sudan curved out of former Sudan. Independence Day: 9th July, 2011. Ethnicity: Over 60 ethnic groups. Religion: Predominantly traditional religions and Christianity.

Maina K. Kinyanjui and Maina Kamau Kinyanjui could be two different people! Your identity is only known to you and not by the law or the State until you have a proper form or document of identity. That is why it is important to carefully use a name, title and any alias in the right… Continue reading The law and your name