This may become an occasional series about the Constitution and public money. Like people, the state collects money, keeps money (hopefully safely) and uses (spends) money ¾ having, one hopes, decided sensibly […]

The Royal Prerogative’ still exists to some limited extent in the United Kingdom. It refers to the powers of the monarch (now exercised on the ‘advice’ of the government) simply […]

Under evidence law certain evidence may not be used in court – though this should be restricted to necessary situations, and the main focus be on whether the evidence is […]

In the 1963 Constitution, the Senate was “intended as a political safeguard for majimbo” (Ghai and McAuslan, Public Law and Political Change). But majimbo lasted just a year. In 1967 an […]

International IDEA, based in Sweden, produces an annual report on the state of democracy worldwide. Each year this includes a special topic—which this year is “democracy on the move”. The […]

There is great disappointment with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, which is central to our criminal justice system. The constitution has important provisions on the subject, but […]

We have just marked—indeed, celebrated—the promulgation of the constitution on August 27, 2010. However, it seems that some things about the constitution are not well understood. I am not here […]

This is prompted by a report of an interview with the Speaker of the National Assembly, Moses Wetang’ula, in Monday’s (August 25) Daily Nation.   It was very interesting on the […]