Winning an election petition (or successfully defending against one) doesn’t mean the winning side gets to recover whatever it spent on lawyers without limit. Kenyan…

If you’re planning to challenge an election result in Kenya, there’s a strict financial requirement that has to be met almost immediately after filing, and…

Public institutions with a broad statutory mandate (electoral bodies, regulators, revenue authorities) face a particular kind of litigation risk: the same legal question, dressed up…

Every election cycle, some aspiring candidates lose their chance to run, not on the campaign trail, but months earlier, by getting the timing of a…

Among the doctrines that keep a legal system functional, few do as much quiet work as res judicata: the principle that once a matter has…

One of the most common (and most paralysing) misconceptions among employers is that terminating an employee for misconduct requires the kind of airtight, beyond-reasonable-doubt proof…