It is a singular pleasure for me to write this Foreword for this liber amicorum, this book of friends, in honour of Professor Yash Pal Ghai. I have known Professor Ghai for almost six decades. I joined Dar es salaam ...

The above sentiment was a defence lawyer ' s response to a press interview upon winning a sensational murder case in which a Permanent Secretary had been found brutally killed in a fire inferno. His wife was charged ...

Although the African human rights legal system boasts of many treaties,1 the most relevant in the context of sexual minority rights2 is the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Charter),3 which agreement ...

We have received the news of the re­ vival of the East African Law Journal with a lot of excitement. This is a wel­ come development in the legal and academic circles in the East African region. This journal traces ...

Performance Appraisal System (PAS) which can be defined as the process of determining and communicating to an employee how he or she is performing on the job. In Kenya, PAS within the Civil Service was introduced around ...

For quite some time, the decision of the five-judge bench/ of the Court of Appeal of Kenya sitting at Nairobi, delivered on the 10th day of December 1999 3 has been a ghost that has haunted petitioners, practitioners ...

The doctrine of natural justice is · p r esently hackneyed in the realms of administrative law and justice, arguably . the world over. The Rules of natural justice are minlmu rn standards of fair decision-making imposed ...

"War in Iraq", "War in the Gulf', "It's all Bombardment", "Civilian Death Toll in Iraq Increases ", " Baghdad F i nal l y Falls", etc , were some of the showy press headlines during the second Gulf War in 2003. Not even ...