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20 Nov 2020
Highlights of policy reforms proposed in the BBI report
The Steering Committee made Policy Reforms proposals to effectively implement the recommendations in the BBI report. The Committee was not able to develop the multiple policies, so they developed a se...
13 Nov 2020
A LOOK AT THE PROPOSED BBI LEGISLATIVE REFORMS
The Building Bridges Steering Committee made recommendations on the implementation of the Report and they drafted several amendment bills. Herein below we provide a brief summary of the laws proposed ...
30 Oct 2020
What next for the Building Bridges Initiative? The road to a referendum.
In our estimation, the soonest the BBI Bill will be back to Parliament is June 2021. With General Elections scheduled for 2022, elected leaders will already be in campaign mode and BBI is likely to be...
16 Oct 2020
A look into the Data Commissioner’s in tray
With the government having announced plans to proceed with the Huduma Number project, the Data Commissioner’s role will be to ensure that the process is in compliance with the data protection Act wh...
9 Oct 2020
Lyft nicotine pouches declared illegal in Kenya
The Pharmacy and Poisons Act (the “Poisons Act”) which provides a legal framework for the control of the profession of pharmacy and the trade in drugs and poisons lists nicotine and its salts, as ...
9 Oct 2020
Kiggundu v Diamond Trust bank (U) Limited & Another (Misc App No. 654 of 2020) [2020] UGCOMMC 32
The head of the Commercial Court Justice Henry Peter Adonyo on Wednesday, 7thOctober 2020 ruled that the credit facilities DTB-Kenya offered to Kiggundu are illegal si...
2 Oct 2020
Highlights of the Start Up Bill, 2020 in the Senate
IT WILL PROVIDE A FRAMEWORK TO ENCOURAGE GROWTH,
SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT AND NEW
ENTREPRENEURSHIP EMPLOYMENT....
11 Sep 2020
Highlights: Draft Consumer Protection Guidelines
Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has released draft consumer protection guidelines for public review and comment. The guidelines are to protect the users and consumers of communications services...
21 Aug 2020
The Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2020
Introduction With the COVID-19 pandemic here to stay, corporations are now forced to operate digitally. Early in the year the Capital Markets Authority released a note stating that publicly listed com...
14 Aug 2020
KRA Finance Act 2020 Stakeholder Awareness
The Kenya Revenue Authority held a Stakeholder Engagement on Thursday, August 13, 2020 to create awareness of the provisions of the Finance Act 2020....
14 Aug 2020
A walk through if the Income Tax (Digital Services Tax) Draft Regulations, 2020.
A digital marketplace was defined in the Finance Act of 2019 as a platform that enables the direct interaction between buyers and sellers of goods and services through electronic means. This definitio...
7 Aug 2020
Proposed Contract Law reforms
After decades of using the English law of contract, Kenya is at the verge of having its own elaborate Law of Contract Act. The existing Act is arguably the shortest Act with 4 sections. Previous attem...
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