Why it is risky for Supreme Court judges to sit in different benches Chief Justice Martha Koome recently proposed that the constitution be amended to raise the number of Supreme […]

The Bill currently before the Senate, introduced by Senator Samson Cherargei is mostly about giving the Senate more power, including at the expense of the National Assembly. Many appointments would […]

43. (1) Every person has the right— …(b) to accessible and adequate housing, and to reasonable standards of sanitation. What does the Constitution mean by this? It means a bit […]

You may have wondered about a statement in Parliament during the recent process of confirming the nomination of Douglas Kanja as the new Inspector General of Police. Apparently, he has […]

“Parliament warns ministries over half-baked bills taken to House”. That was the Star’s headline on Monday this week. And the story was that the House Business Committee had stopped processing […]

“Parliament is the country’s law-making body. If the Judiciary desires to be the lawmakers, they have the option of resigning from the judicial seats and come and run for parliamentary […]

The National Assembly’s task in considering the President’s nominees as Cabinet Secretaries has been attracting unusual attention. This is in the light, of course, of the “Gen Z” protests, and […]

In 2018, the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional section 204 of the Penal Code directing courts to sentence to death anyone convicted of murder. It said this “deprives the Court of […]