Kenya: Litigation, Mediation & Arbitration

A Kenyan High Court ruling has determined that unlicensed lenders cannot enforce loan agreements, raising fundamental questions about the enforceability of private credit arrangements and the scope of regulatory licensing requirements. With the Central Bank of Kenya yet to finalize its licensing framework, lenders face mounting uncertainty over their legal standing in recovery proceedings.

East Africa's infrastructure and development sectors face a critical capital shortage that foreign lenders could address—but only if the legal framework supports cross-border lending. Recent court decisions in Kenya and Uganda have grappled with a fundamental question: can local borrowers defeat foreign lenders' claims by pointing to registration failures? This analysis examines how both jurisdictions navigated this issue, the contrasting speeds of their legal corrections, and what these developments

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The Court of Appeal in Civil Appeal No. E160 OF 2025 ("Court"), delivered judgment in a significant appeal concerning the governance of urban planning and high-rise development approvals...

In a recent judgment, the Supreme Court of Kenya affirmed that children born out of wedlock are entitled to inherit from their deceased Muslim father's intestate estate.

In a statement representing Kenyan artists at the African Union (AU) headquarters in Addis Ababa, Kenyan musician and actress Nikita Kering called on the AU to address the issue of unfair pay...