President Uhuru Kenyatta was called to duty on Thursday 27th March to deliver the State of the Nation address in a special joint session of Parliament where, he is required by Article 132 of the Constitution to update the country, once a year, the progress made in realisation of national values and principles of governance, the country’s international obligations and national security.

It is difficult to remember a time when the delivery of services by a Government department did not dominate the headlines, but the case of Ministry of Lands and the National Land Commission (NLC) is in a league of its own.

A group of parliamentarians have made several threats to the Judiciary, ranging from fresh vetting of judicial officers to reducing its financial allocation.

A constitutional confrontation is looming between the Senate and the Embu County Assembly on the one hand and the High Court on the other.

The Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) is the regulatory authority for the communications sector in Kenya. Established in 1999 by the Kenya Communications Act (KCA) No. 2 of 1998, CCK’s initial mandate was regulation of the telecommunications and postal/courier sub-sectors, and the management of Kenya’s radiofrequency spectrum.

In democracies, courts have a crucial role to play in exercising checks and balances on the other branches of government. At times, this brings them very close to the political game itself, of power structures and competition for hegemony.

Since Kenya’s Independence in 1963, the evolution of the legal profession has been fueled by the significant reforms.

Delegated legislation (also referred to as secondary legislation or subordinate legislation or subsidiary legislation) is law made by an executive authority under powers given to them by primary legislation in order to implement and administer the requirements of that primary legislation.

The Kenya Government ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child in the years 1990 and 2000 respectively.

Journalists in practice hold themselves out as promoting public interest by reliably and accurately informing citizens about the most crucial issues that directly affect their lives.

The 2010 Constitution marked a milestone for advancing the right to health as part of the Bill of Rights. Article 43(1) of the Constitution guarantees every individual the highest attainable standard of health which is also recognised in regional and international human rights instruments such as in Article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights and Article 16 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights.

On 8th December 2013, the National Assembly passed The National Social Security Fund Bill, 2013 (Bill). The Bill which was published on the 16th of August 2013, through Kenya Gazette Supplement No. 120 is intended to repeal and replace the National Social Security Fund(NSSF) Act, Cap 258 of the Laws of Kenya (Act).

In Criminal Appeal Numbers 370 and 372 of 2010, the Court of Appeal ordered the re-hearing of two appeals by Ferdinand Indangasi Musee and Aggrey Rasto Wandei at the Mombasa High Court.

Extradition laws should be aligned to the Constitution of Kenya. I am not surprised that the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) has taken exceptions to the proposals in the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendment) Bill 2013 which he considers as intended to deprive his Office of the legal authority to handle extradition proceedings.

Classic democratic theory identifies ‘three branches of government’: the executive, the legislative and the judiciary, each of which has its specific role.

All over the world free reporting is under threat – and not just from heavy-handed governments or criminal violence.

In a ruling delivered on May 2, 2013 in the Criminal Case No 86/2011, Lady Justice Roselyne Lagat-Korir set free an accused person charged with murder after payment of camels and goats to the family of the victim.

The swearing of an oath before divine symbols reaches back at least to the Sumerian civilisation (4th–3rd millennia BC) of the ancient Middle East and to ancient Egypt, where one often swore by his life, or ankh (“oath”), which literally means “an utterance of life.”

Last week the Judges and Magistrates Vetting Board released its interim report for the period September 2011 to February 2013.

Bail or bond has its roots in the legal system of Anglo-Saxon times necessitated by medieval sheriffs’ desire to avoid costly and troublesome burden of personal responsibility for those in their charge.

Kenyans are sufficiently familiar with the terms corruption and terrorism, so I do not need to spend time defining them.

Recent events offer us an opportunity to debate attitudes and approaches to the question of gender violence.

The insurance industry through their umbrella body, Association of Kenya Insurers (AKI) have been clamouring for the amendment of the Insurance (Motor Vehicle Third Party Risks), Act Cap 405 since the year 2008.

Following the promulgation of the Constitution 2010, Office of Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) was officially delinked from the State Law Office in July 2011.

Everyone proclaimed that with the Constitution of Kenya 2010, the epoch of good governance had landed in Kenya. It was therefore expected that the management of public affairs would be done through rational institutional arrangements.