Litigation

Our latest Newsletter is Out!

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Greetings from Katiba Institute. Welcome to our first newsletter of the year. The newsletter highlights Katiba Institute’s cases up to March 2024. They include a petition challenging the privatisation of […]
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Kenyan High Court strikes down subversion law, upholding freedom of expression

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The High Court of Kenya at Nakuru has outlawed the offence of subversion. This follows a judgment delivered on 18 March 2024 by Judge Mohochi S. M. Recalling the former […]
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Press Release: Robbery With Violence Petition

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Nairobi, Tuesday, 30 January 2024: Katiba Institute (KI) has filed a petition challenging the continued use of laws criminalising robbery with violence and attempted robbery with violence. We did so […]
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WAIKWA WANYOIKE: Strategic Litigation as a guardrail to protect and sustain Kenya’s transformative 2010 Constitution

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(11th CB Madan Memorial Lecture presented by Waikwa Wanyoike on 15 December 2023 at Strathmore Law School ) OverviewIn this paper, I try to do three things. First, I attempt […]
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Katiba Institute’s Dudley Ochiel named Jurist of the year 2023

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Dudley Ochiel, a Litigation Counsel at Katiba Institute, was on 8 December 2023 named the Jurist of the year 2023 during ICJ Kenya’s Jurist of the Year Awards held in […]
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High Court invalidates single-source contract for bulk grain handling facilities at Mombasa port.

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The case: Okoiti v Kenya Ports Authority & 5 Others (Petition E045 of [2021] & E018 of [2022] (Consolidated)) [2023] KEHC 20571 (KLR) (18 July 2023) (Judgment)  KI’s Role: KI […]
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A problematic decision: the High Court rules that it does not have jurisdiction over violations of the right of access to information. 

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The case: Okioma & 12 others v Kagwe, Cabinet Secretary for Health & 8 others (Petition 218 of 2020) [2023] KEHC 22245 (KLR) (Constitutional and Human Rights) (15 September 2023) […]
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Supreme Court affirms the rights of children in conflict with the law, reprimands media houses. 

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The case: Macharia & 6 Others v Standard Group & 4 Others, SC Pet 13 (E015 of 2022)   KI’s role: KI represented the appellants in this case, seven children […]
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