Over the past few years, the world has witnessed increased use of artificial intelligence (AI) in almost every sphere of life. Some of the AI solutions such as ChatGPT by OpenAI have drawn immense public attention and are said to be “revolutionary”. Governments and businesses world-wide are exploring ways of integrating AI into the economy and businesses
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If you are employed on a fixed-term contract, prepare to go home on the expiry date unless your employer advises you otherwise. Indeed, the preparation should start from the day you sign the contract. That is the latest, crisp albeit stone-cold advisement from the Court of Appeal.
For generations, the dream of property ownership in Kenya has been haunted by a persistent nightmare: fraudulent title deeds, double allocations, missing files, endless paperwork, and a web of costly intermediaries. This uncertainty has negatively impacted and deterred property investment. Now, a groundbreaking technology best known for powering cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin may hold the key to building a more transparent, efficient, and secure real estate market: blockchain.
The growing reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) in legal work is increasingly dividing opinion between skeptics and believers. Skeptics warn of inaccuracy, ethical compromise and declining service quality. Believers, on the other hand, maintain that AI is not only inevitable but indispensable to modern legal practice. The truth, however, lies somewhere in between. AI is neither a panacea nor a threat to be resisted. It presents a shift in how legal services are being delivered to businesses.
Despite its certainty like childbirth, retirement appears to always arrive too early, hitting most employees unawares like the arrival of a pre-term baby. Retirement parties often sound and feel like commiseration sessions for the retiree who supposedly needs reassurance that despite the clock having ticked 60, they are still useful and can ‘retyre’ and do other amazing things for the remainder of their lives. The prospect of retirement has been known to cause serious mental health issues to some employees upon receipt of the dreaded letter from the employer bearing the unwelcome tidings.
With well over 6 years into the operation of the Data Protection Act, 2019, and with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) steadily asserting its enforcement mandate through a growing body of determinations, one message is becoming clear; organisations handling personal data must do more than adopt policies and issue assurances of compliance. They must demonstrate that their systems work in practice and that compliance is real, accessible, and effective from the perspective of the individual.
The discourse around Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) compliance has in recent years moved beyond the confines of corporate boardrooms and sustainability reporting. Increasingly, ESG requirements have reached sectors traditionally governed by regulatory and professional standards. One of these sectors is healthcare. ESG compliance is emerging as a critical framework in navigating complex medical negligence claims, particularly where issues of institutional accountability, patient rights, and governance structures intersect.

