Section 2 of Advocates Act CAP 16: Interpretation

Subject to this Act, no person shall be qualified to act as an advocate unless— (a) he has been admitted as an advocate; and (b) his name is for the time being on the Roll; and (c) he has in...

Each of the following persons shall, if he holds one of the qualifications specified in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of section 13(1) at the time of his appointment to his office, be entitled in...

(1) The Attorney-General may, in his absolute discretion, admit to practise as an advocate, for the purpose of any specified suit or matter in or in regard to which the person so admitted has been...

Subject to this Act, no person shall be admitted as an advocate unless— (a) he is a citizen of Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda or Tanzania; and (b) he is duly qualified in accordance with section...

(1) A person shall be duly qualified if— (a) having passed the relevant examinations of any recognized university in Kenya he holds, or has become eligible for the conferment of, a degree in law...

The Attorney-General and the Director of Public Prosecutions may take pupils in accordance with section 13 and in this Part and in any regulations “advocate”, in the context of pupillage, includes the...

(1) Every person who is duly qualified in accordance with this Part may apply for admission as an advocate, and the application shall be made by petition in the prescribed form, verified by oath or...

The Registrar shall keep the Roll of Advocates in accordance with this Act and any directions as to its form and the information to be recorded as the Chief Justice may give, and shall allow any...

(1) The President may grant a letter of conferment to any person of irreproachable professional conduct who has rendered exemplary service to the legal and public service in Kenya conferring upon him...

(1) Upon the commencement of this Act, the Registrar shall cause to be prepared, and shall thereafter maintain, a Roll of Advocates having the rank of the Senior Counsel (hereinafter called “the Roll...

In the application of Part XI to Senior Counsel— (a) all references therein to the Disciplinary Committee shall be construed as references to a Committee of three, to be appointed in each case by...

The Attorney-General, the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Solicitor General, Senior Counsel or Queen’s Counsel according to the date of their appointment as such, the chairman and the...

The Registrar shall issue in accordance with, but subject to, this Part and any rules made under this Act certificates authorizing the advocates named therein to practise as advocates.

(1) Application for a practising certificate shall be made to the Registrar— (a) by delivering to him an application in duplicate, signed by the applicant specifying his name and place of...

(1) Every advocate to whom a practising certificate is issued under this Part shall thereupon and without payment of any further fee, subscription, election, admission or appointment, and...

(1) Every practising certificate shall bear the date of the day on which it is issued and shall have effect from the beginning of that day: Provided that a practising certificate which is issued...

(1) Subject to subsection (3) and to section 28(5), subsection (2) shall have effect where an advocate applies for a practising certificate— (a) when for twelve months or more he has ceased to hold...

(1) If in any case, not being a case to which section 25 applies, the Registrar on an application duly made to him refuses or neglects to issue a practising certificate the applicant may apply to the...

The making by the Disciplinary Committee or the Court of an order suspending an advocate from practice shall operate, and the adjudication in bankruptcy of an advocate shall operate immediately, to...

(1) Subject to this section, where a practising certificate has become suspended by an order under section 26(2) or by virtue of section 27, that suspension shall continue until the certificate...

Where an advocate’s practising certificate has become suspended— (a) by an order under section 26(2); or (b) by virtue of section 27 by reason of his adjudication in bankruptcy, the Registrar...

(1) Any list purporting to be published by authority of the Registrar and to contain the names of advocates who have obtained practising certificates for the current year before the 1st February in...

(1) Subject to section 83, no unqualified person shall act as an advocate, or as such cause any summons or other process to issue, or institute, carry on or defend any suit or other proceedings in the...

(1) Notwithstanding that an advocate has been issued with a practising certificate under this Act, he shall not engage in practice on his own behalf either full-time or part time unless he has...

(1) A person who is qualified to act as an advocate under this Act may be employed as an in-house advocate. (2) A person who is employed as an in-house advocate shall— (a) be an independent...

(1) The Chief Justice shall, on the recommendation of the Council of the Society, prescribe— (a) the standards of work that may be performed by a person employed as an in-house advocate under this...

Any unqualified person who wilfully pretends to be, or takes or uses any name, title, addition or description implying that he is, qualified or recognized by law as qualified to act as an advocate...

(1) No unqualified person shall, either directly or indirectly, take instructions or draw or prepare any document or instrument— (a) relating to the conveyancing of property; or (b) for, or in...

(1) Every person who draws or prepares, or causes to be drawn or prepared, any document or instrument referred to in section 34 (1) shall at the same time endorse or cause to be endorsed thereon his...

(1) Any advocate who holds himself out or allows himself to be held out, directly or indirectly and whether or not by name, as being prepared to do professional business at less than the remuneration...

Any advocate who agrees to share his profits in respect of any professional business, whether contentious or non-contentious, with any person not being an advocate or other duly qualified legal...

(1) Any unqualified person who, in consideration of any payment or other advantage to himself or any other person, procures or attempts to procure the employment of an advocate as such in any suit or...

Any advocate who acts as agent in any suit, or in any matter in bankruptcy, for any unqualified person, or permits his name, or that of any firm of which he is a partner, to be made use of in any such...

No costs in respect of anything done by an unqualified person in contravention of this Part shall be recoverable in any suit or matter by any person.

(1) No advocate shall, in connection with his practice as an advocate, without the written permission of the Council of the Society, which may be given for such period and subject to such conditions...

(1) Any person who, whilst he is disqualified from practising as an advocate by reason of the fact that he has been struck off the Roll, otherwise than at his own request, or is suspended from...

(1) If any act is done by a body corporate or by any director, officer or servant thereof, of such a nature or in such a manner as to be calculated to imply that the body corporate is qualified, or...

(1) The Council of the Society may make recommendation to the Chief Justice on all matters relating to the remuneration of advocates, and the Chief Justice, having considered the same, may by order,...

(1) Subject to section 46 and whether or not an order is in force under section 44, an advocate and his client may— (a) before, after or in the course of any contentious business, make an...

Nothing in this Act shall give validity to— (a) any purchase by an advocate of the interest, or any part of the interest, of his client in any suit or other contentious proceeding; or (b) any...

(1) The jurisdiction of the Court to make orders for the delivery by an advocate of a bill of costs, and for the delivery up of or otherwise in relation to, any deeds, documents or papers in his...

(1) Subject to this Act, no suit shall be brought for the recovery of any costs due to an advocate or his firm until the expiry of one month after a bill for such costs, which may be in summarized...

Where, in the absence of an agreement for remuneration made by virtue of section 45, a suit has been brought by an advocate for the recovery of any costs and a defence is filed disputing the...

(1) Where a person other than the person who is the party chargeable with a bill of costs is liable to pay the bill either to the advocate or to the party chargeable with the bill, or where a person...

(1) Every application for an order for the taxation of an advocate’s bill or for the delivery of such a bill and the delivering up of any deeds, documents and papers by an advocate shall be made in...

Any court in which an advocate has been employed to prosecute or defend any suit or matter may at any time declare the advocate entitled to a charge on the property recovered or preserved through his...

(1) There is hereby established a Complaints Commission (in this Part referred to as “the Commission”) which shall consist of such commissioner or commissioners as shall be appointed by the President...

(1) There shall be paid to the Commissioner such remuneration by way of salary, allowance, pension or gratuity as shall be determined by the President. (2) The remuneration referred to in subsection...

(1) There shall be a secretary to the Commission who shall be appointed by the Attorney-General. (2) The Attorney-General shall provide such public officers as are necessary for the proper and...

Every advocate and every person otherwise entitled to act as an advocate shall be an officer of the Court and shall be subject to the jurisdiction thereof and, subject to this Act, to the jurisdiction...