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Introduction   Kenya has long been a significant exporter of labour. Its workers are employed across the Gulf countries. The conditions under which that migration has historically occurred have been a source of persistent and well documented concern.   Domestic workers and lower-skilled labourers in particular have been exposed to a range of abuses in destination countries such as passport confiscation by employers, […]

We are of the school of thought that this Bill is less about rights and more about power. This is informed by Jean Jacques Rousseau’s influential treatise – the Social Contract.  The social contract is the foundational yet quiet agreement that holds a country together. Citizens surrender certain freedoms, pay taxes, obey laws, and accept state authority in exchange

By lexlink / April 24, 2026 What Exactly is AI?  When most people hear ‘Artificial Intelligence’ they think of Chat GPT, Google, Gemini or Claude, tools that generate text, images and ideas on demand. But AI is a much broader category than generative tools. Under this Bill, AI encompasses any machine-based system that uses data, algorithms or machine learning to make predictions, recommendations or decisions,

Law of Contract (Amendments) Bill, 2025 The Law of Contract (Amendment) Bill, 2025, proposes to place significant limits on how parties can use contracts to walk away from responsibility. It seeks to enforce that the freedom of contract does not mean freedom to be unfair.   Kenya’s Law of Contract Act is famously sparse. It has for decades

Kenya’s creative economy has never been more alive. From its thriving music scene, its increasingly influential film industry to software developers building the next generation of tech startups. Kenyan creators are producing original work at an unprecedented scale. And yet the law governing these works has not kept pace. The Copyright Act of 2001 was drafted for a different