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28 May 2021
State of the GDPR at 3 and its global effect
As of Tuesday 25 May, it was 5 years of General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). 3 years since its enforcement and its impact on the world can be felt. The Regulations have elevated the awareness o...
21 May 2021
Regulatory Impact Assessment on the Data Protection Regulations
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) vide a Gazette Notice No. 4697 informed the public that a Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) on the proposed Data Protection (Registration of Data...
14 May 2021
Finance Bill, 2021
TAX AMENDMENTS HIGHLIGHTS Introduction: The Finance Bill, 2021 was published on 05th May 2021. The reason for publishing the Bill early, as was the case in 2020, was to comply with the ruling by Justi...
23 Apr 2021
A ruling against Minimum taxes
Earlier this week, the High Court of Kenya vide a ruling in the Constitutional Petition No. E005 of 2021, a case of Stanley Waweru & 3 others (the Petitioners) V National Assembly, the Commissione...
23 Apr 2021
New era – New taxes
The online mode of doing business has brought with it taxation challenges. Kenya along with the rest of the world is moving away from the traditional brick and mortar concept of doing business. Digita...
16 Apr 2021
New rules for Data Protection
The Officer of the Data Protection Commissioner released Draft Data Protection Regulations earlier this week for public participation. The Regulations comprises: The Data Protection (Compliance and En...
16 Apr 2021
Increasing ease of doing business in Kenya
The Business Laws (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 2021 (“New Act”) was signed into law on 30th March 2021, thereby coming into effect straightaway. The new Act amends various laws and is part of th...
16 Apr 2021
A win for children and families in Kenya
The Employment (Amendment) Bill, 2019 was signed into law on 30th March 2021. The new Act – Employment (Amendment) Act, 2021 came into force on 15th April 2021. The Act goes a long way in supporting...
18 Dec 2020
Business Laws(Amendment) (No. 2), Bill, 2020
The Business Laws (Amendment) Bill (No.2), 2020 seeks to make various amendments to various statutes highlighted as follows: Clause 2 of the Bill seeks to amend the Law of Contract Act, Cap 23 t...
4 Dec 2020
What is in the latest BBI Bill?
On the 25th of November, 2020, a newer version of the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2020 was published by the Government Printers. The object of this Bill according to its promoters, i...
4 Dec 2020
ICT Practitioner’s Bill: The “Birth of a Profession?”
Hon. Godfrey Otsotsi is back with the Information Communication Technology Practitioners Bill 2020 which has triggered murmurs across Kenya’s technology community. The bill seeks to establish a lega...
24 Nov 2020
BBI at a glance: Uniting Kenya through legal and policy reforms
The Steering Committee on the implementation of the Building Bridges Initiative made recommendations on the implementation of the Report, which are structured in the following thematic areas: Constitu...
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