The Kenya School of Law was established in 1963 and a total of 11 students were admitted that year. The School was operating from a 4 acre plot on Valley Road next to University of Nairobi’s Dental School. The premises were formerly a maternity wing of the Nairobi Hospital. The School was a Department of the Attorney General’s Office until July 2001, when it acquired the status of a Semi Autonomous Government Agency. As an effort to boost training activities at the School, the Government through the Ministry of Finance financed the purchase of an ultra modern training facility at Karen. The School took occupation of the new premises in January, 2005 and is doing everything possible to utilize this facility to realize its mandate.
In an effort to address some of the issues linked to education and training for a competent and professional legal profession, both the pre and post-colonial governments have undertaken various initiatives and set up commissions of inquiry to formulate appropriate policy. Some of these include the Denning Committee (1962); the Akiwumi Committee (1995) on the Status and Management of the Kenya School of Law; the Kwach Committee (1998) on the Administration of Justice. The recommendations of these committees still form the bulwark of policy on legal education and training in the Country. The recommendations of the Akiwumi Report in particular culminated in the re-establishment of the Council of Legal Education under the Council of Legal Education Act, Cap 16A of the Laws of Kenya.
Other than offering quality legal training, the school offers a spacious modern cafeteria, seminar and conference rooms, modern lecture theatre with public address system, hostel facilities with self-contained single and double rooms with flat screen television sets among others. These facilities may be hired by the general public when they are not in use by students.
Pan African University Institute for Basic Sciences, Technology and Innovation (PAUSTI)
51-200 employees
Nairobi, Kenya
The Kenya Accountants and Secretaries National Examinations Board (KASNEB)
51-200 employees
Nairobi, Kenya
