In feudal England the Crown could dismiss their servants without assigning any cause and where there were contracts of service a term was be implied that the Crown could terminate the contract at will-pleasure doctrine. This position was imported in the legal systems of some Common Law...

On the 11th day of December 1963 Kenya’s founding father Jomo Kenyatta received the articles of independence at a ceremony in Uhuru Gardens, Nairobi in front of jubilant Kenyans who numbered 200,000, the Duke of Edinburgh and Colonial Secretary Duncan Sandys. At midnight of that night, the...

Article 41 of the Constitution of Kenya guarantees every worker the right to go on strike. However, the Constitution is ambiguous as to the circumstances and requirements of the strikes. For that reason, Parliament enacted the Labour Relations Act which sought to cure the ambiguity of Article 41...

Espionage, the act of obtaining confidential or sensitive information without permission, has been part of human history for centuries. From ancient spies to modern-day intelligence agencies, espionage has been used for a variety of purposes, including national security and political gain. In...

In an increasingly unstable world, the predicament of refugees and asylum seekers largely remains a demanding global challenge. As persons flee wars, persecution, and conflict in their countries of origin, the principle of non-refoulement chips in to guarantee respect and protection of their...

The world, Kenya notwithstanding, is increasingly becoming digitized. Estimates point out that Kenya had above 17 million internet users and more than 10 million social media users as of January 2023. On top of the government’s agenda is digitization which includes establishing a digital...

Marriage is humanity’s most universal institution but largely remains least understood. This paper does not offer a new definition of marriage but adopts the meaning assigned to it by the Kenyan Marriage Act. It adopts a comparative approach in tracing the origin and evolution of the concept...