GVA LEGAL PODCAST

Join Jean Kambuni and our guests, Susan Wekesa and Brillian Njoki as we educate ourselves on the plight of blind and partially sighted people in Kenya.

 Join Jean Kambuni as we recap snippets of our five favorite episodes of Season 2 of the GVA Legal Podcast.

Join Jean Kambuni and our guest, Robin Busolo as we discuss child online protection, the law related to online child protection and the strategies parents and teachers can use to protect the privacy of children online.

Join Jean Kambuni and our guests as they discuss the hotel rating system in Kenya, the process of hotel classification and the benefits of hotel standardization and classification schemes.

Join Jean Kambuni and our guests as they discuss the obligations of businesses within the hospitality industry, the various licenses and permits needed to run a business, and the process of applying for a license from the Tourism Regulatory Authority.

Join Jean Kambuni and our guest, Phillip Kagucia, as we discuss the work of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission and its use of asset recovery as a tool against corruption.

Join Jean Kambuni and our guest, Boniface Kamiti, as we discuss consumer protection in Kenya, the rights of consumers and the remedies available when a product or service does not meet acceptable standards.

Join Jean Kambuni and our guest, Abigail Bundi, to understand how e-commerce works in the Kenyan context and the opportunities for business and employment in this space.

Join Jean Kambuni and our guest, Dr. Thiankolu to find out what surrogacy is, if it is legal in Kenya and the most important clauses in a surrogacy agreement.

Join Jean Kambuni and our guest, Dr. Omar to find out what the Government of Kenya is doing to address the mental health crisis in Kenya.

Join Jean Kambuni and our guest, Ibrahim Alubala as we answer commonly asked questions related to parental responsibility, child custody and co-parenting.

We celebrated the International Day for Universal Access to Information on September 28th 2022. Join Jean Kambuni and our guest, Viola Ochola as we discuss the right to information and the legal framework on information access in Kenya.

Join Jean Kambuni, Winnie Aluoch and our guest, Okada Buluma as we discuss Foster Care Placement in the Kenyan context as regulated by the Children’s Act 2022.

Join Jean Kambuni and our guest, Dr. Conrad Bosire, as we discuss the basics of Presidential Election Petitions. We will look at the rules for Presidential election petitions, the standard of proof for a nullification or validation of the presidential election and discuss whether IEBC must agree on the tallying process for Presidential election votes before the Chairperson can declare the results...

In this episode, we delve into all matters of elections as we discuss the upcoming Kenyan general elections. Our Guest is Isaack Okero Otieno. Isaack is the Kenya Country Director for the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES).

On episode 31 of the GVA Legal Podcast, we discuss all things Intellectual Property. Louisa Matu-Mureithi and Felix Mungara explain IP, registration, rights, and commercialization. The benefits of registering your IP and monetizing your IP.

Join Louisa Matu-Mureithi and our guest, Mugambi Laibuta, Advocate of the High Court, trained Mediator, Legislative Counsel, Policy Analyst and Privacy and Data Protection Specialist, as we discuss Data Protection and Privacy. 

Join Louisa Matu-Mureithi, Annette Akama and our guest Nellie Wainaina, Senior Legal Officer at Octagon Pension Services Limited as we discuss Retirement Planning.

Join Louisa Matu-Mureithi, Emmanuel Otieno Ouma and Arnold Karanja, as we discuss the interplay between Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act (POCAMLA) and Data Protection & Privacy.  

Have you ever wanted to change your name? Listen in and find out the legal process of changing your name in Kenya. 

On this episode, we invited Dr. Bright Gameli Mawudor, Head, Managed Cyber Security Services at Dimension Data East Africa, Founder of the Cyber Security collective, Africahackon and a renounced Cybersecurity expert.   Bright discusses the regulatory framework, data breach notifications and incident response mechanisms, the interplay between cybersecurity and data privacy and how cybersecurit...

The practice of law has adapted to our “new” normal through the use of technology. On this episode, we invited Eric Theuri, the Chairperson of the Law Society of Kenya – Nairobi Branch to give more insight into how these changes and developments in technology have impacted the legal practice in Kenya. We discuss emerging areas of practice, and the training legal professionals should undertake to r...

Over the last decade, conversations around mental health have been extensively developed and contextualised with a bid to analyse its effects on economic productivity and national growth. For this episode, we invited Aldo Oluoch-Olunya, a Counselling Psychologist to give us insights on how best to develop tools to cope with the extra-ordinary pressures of our work and social lives. Aldo discusses...

In this episode we host Alaka Lugonzo, an extractives strategist working with Oxfam in Kenya. Alaka discusses the legal, social and economic intersections of oil and gas exploration in Kenya and specific pertinent issues such as the legal gaps in the existing regulatory framework that need to be addressed. We also discuss the role of gender and community involvement in oil and gas extraction and t...

In this episode, we discuss the rights to health and bodily autonomy of Intersex persons. We are honored to host Senior Counsel, John Chigiti to shed light on the challenges faced by Intersex persons and possible ways to address these challenges.