Early Years

This precedent-setting case is significant for it came about when intellectual property rights were in their infancy, locally. Such rights were generally unfathomable in the courts, especially in the context of negligble innovation in the depressed economy of the 90s. Basically, the courts did not have an understanding that intellectual property could be under propietorship. We masterfully guided the court to conceptualise our client's interests as property which could be trespassed or violated just like land. This was despite having intially been found against by the High Court. Our successful Court of Appeal trial saw the court affirm the right of an IP owner for the first time in relation to an invention where trademark is not at stake. From securing our client's rights in design of sanitary bins, we are proud to note that this was eventually picked up and enshrined in statute under the new Constitution of Kenya (2010).

Adverse possession and community land rights in the context of decolonisation.

Ensured thousands of purported squatters retained land to which they had no prior good title, at least as far as colonial land law was concerned, but which they had settled for the stipulated period. The land in question had originally been under the ownership of a colonial settler but it was actually vested local interests hiding behind the actual owner who were attempting to acquire the vast property for themselves.

The case involved an informal settlement where occupiers had no title. The government was allegedly trying to acquire the land for redevelopment and resettlement of the inhabitants, but in reality, such projects would in those days see the developed land doled out to networked individuals, effectively dispossessing those who previously had homes there. Upon our successful submissions, the court held that the inhabitants were indeed entitled to protection and the right to property in the development that was to come about.

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