Author: NLM Correspondent

Essentially, automation and artificial intelligence have the ability to serve as lawyer equalizers. Today, and certainly in the future, the study posited, attorneys will be able to run fast and win By Jenn Betts A study was recently published on what makes a great lawyer in the age of artificial intelligence. The study suggested that a great lawyer, historically, was someone who had a strong memory, vast experience in a field and a sterling education. The distance runner rather than the sprinter. With the advent of artificial intelligence and digital solutions, the study’s thesis was that attorneys will be able…

By Mike O’Sullivan In May 2016, at a summit on anti-corruption the then British Prime Minister David Cameron said in hushed tones to Queen Elizabeth, “We’ve got leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming to Britain… Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world”. A month later he lost the Brexit referendum and the UK has been in a state of chaos ever since. Nigeria most likely had little hand in Brexit, but the complacency of Cameron did. So too, according to a Commons Intelligence and Security Committee’s report into Russian influence in British politics, did…

Phoebe Kwamboka Matoya vs. Simba & Simba Advocates [2019] eKLR By Shadrack Muyesu Facts The Claimant was employed by the Respondent as a secretary starting September 3, 2001. On 10 September 2014, the Respondent’s Managing Partner wrote to the Claimant to inform her of the termination of her employment. The Respondent indicated in the letter that it was terminating the contract of employment in the exercise of its option under Clause Six of the contract and that the Claimant would be paid one month salary in lieu of notice. No other reason was given. Issues In Court, the Claimant testified…

By Noble Banadda A number of technological advances have revolutionised human reproduction in the past few decades. One example is in vitro fertilisation (IVF), the process of fertilising a woman’s eggs with a man’s sperm in the laboratory. This can be a solution when men and women have problems conceiving. It also allows infertile couples to use donor sperm or eggs. Other examples include embryo transfer and pre-implantation genetic testing. The first means embryos created outside the body can be frozen, stored and later transferred into a womb. The second allows prospective parents who have or carry genetic diseases to…

By Gilbert Muyumbu The establishment of the modern state in Kenya on June 1, 1886 was not a process that followed any universally accepted rule of law. It was a foreign imposition on the African populations which then lived in a space that would later be referred to as Kenya. As a foreign imposition, it lacked legitimacy and acceptance among a majority of Africans and thus faced stiff resistance from many of them. In order to overcome the resistance, function as a state and extract cooperation from Africans, it engaged in uncountable excesses and human rights violations. Postcolonial theorist Achille…

To counter a n ever-growing threat to food security, the Kenyan government has identified fish farming as a workable solution. By Antony Mutunga The threat of desert locusts and the COVID-19 pandemic have seen food insecurity grow as crops are destroyed and those dependent on them for a living are forced to hike prices in order to survive. In fact, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), over 25 million people are expected to face food shortages in East Africa in the coming months as a result. To counter this growing threat to food security, the Kenyan government has…

Africa is a global hot spot for the origination of online fraud; its digital economies are also advancing. Kenya leads the African continent in the use of digital credit – but as growing numbers of consumers and businesses transact online during the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for business and consumer protection against increasing fraud levels has become critical. Billy Owino, CEO of TransUnion Kenya, says financial institutions and businesses must deploy robust identity verification and fraud detection tools that do not hinder the customer experience to manage their risks and avoid losses at a time when demand for credit is…

BY DR WILLY MUTUNGA A Metaphor During a discussion with a Governor friend on the progress and retrogression of the implementation of the 2010 Constitution, he used the following metaphor: The Constitution gave birth to a beautiful child destined to grow and transform our Kenyan society in all its ideological, social, economic, cultural, spiritual and political aspects. The ultimate goal for this transformation would be to mitigate a neocolonial status quo, into a free, just, equitable and egalitarian, peaceful, prosperous, ecologically safe and democratic society. Such a society would lay a firm basis for a national discussion of its weaknesses…

By Kibe Mungai …President Kibaki signed into law a constitution that relegates detention without trial and political exile to the dustbin of our ignominious history under presidential authoritarian rule. The President will no longer be that feared monster whose edicts Kenyans loathed to listen to at one o’clock sacking people left right and centre and promoting incompetent cronies to the citadels of state power. There is no doubt that the checks and balances that we always wanted in government are enshrined in this constitution ushering in the Second Republic. Kenya is now home to a fundamental law of the land…

By Jacinta Maweu Kenya has witnessed post-election violence to varying degrees since the return of multiparty politics in 1992. The worst was in 2008. Since then the country has had two contested and deeply divisive elections (in 2013 and 2017). In the 2007/2008 post election violence, journalists and the media were partly blamed for dividing the country along ethnic lines. The mainstream media, in particular, were accused of biased reporting and for framing issues with implicit or explicit ethnic overtones. Some vernacular radio stations were also accused of fanning the violence by airing hate speech. But there’s been little focus…