Litigation

How Courts Continue to Thwart State’s Agenda to Stifle the Rights to Assemble and Demonstrate

The Confidence from the Constitution On a sunny Tuesday morning in January there was an awkward scene outside Milimani Courts. Hundreds of doctors gathered, most in their signature white coats […]
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A crucial case on freedom of association in Kenya

Freedom of association is fundamental to a healthy democracy. It enables us as social beings to form organisations with others, to express our political —and other—views, and to collaborate with […]
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Kenya School of Law will admit non-Kenyans, court rules

By Dzuya Walter For Citizen Digital High Court Judge John Mativo has quashed a decision directing Kenya School of Law not to admit non-Kenyans into the Advocates Training Programme saying […]
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The Court of Appeal Decision on Refugees Repatriation

On the 17th of February 2017, the Court of Appeal affirmed the 2014 decision of the High Court finding the directive by the Government requiring all urban refugees to report […]
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High Court Judgment on the unconstitutionality of the Cabinet

In 2015, Marilyn Kamuru, Daisy Jerop and the Centre for Rights Education and Awareness approached the High Court to challenge the constitution of the cabinet. The Petitioners argued that the […]
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Katiba Institute Participates in Challenging the Mandatory Death Penalty at the Supreme Court

  On the 13th of December 2016 the Supreme Court, now fully constituted, sat to hear an application that had been brought by two convicts previously on death row [The […]
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Appeal on the Constitutional interpretation of Health facilities

This week, Katiba Institute’s Litigation Unit will be at the Court of Appeal for an appeal, to be heard on October 13th 2016 by Judges of Appeal, Waki, Azangalala and Kiage […]
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Appeal on Plight of Refugees

This week, Katiba Institute’s Litigation Unit will be at the Court of Appeal for an appeal concerning the rights of refugees and specifically questions whether a Directive issued by the Minister […]
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