Godfrey Mwango is a reader in law based in Mombasa-Kenya. He specialises in comparative constitutional law (with a focus on emerging jurisdictions), horizontal human rights, and judicial review and is currently supervised by Professor PLO Lumumba. Previously, Godfrey received training under the Honourable Peter Kaluma and George Miyare (Kenya's leading constitutional litigation experts). He is skilled in constitutional litigation and judicial review and can be contacted at mwangoadvocates@outlook.com.
Mainstreaming Merits Review: Kenya’s Court of Appeal Further Clarifies the Scope of Judicial Review Law
On 10 November 2023, the Kenyan Court of Appeal delivered its judgment in Patrick Kabundu & Another v County Government of Mombasa, offering additional clarity on considerations guiding the court's merits assessment of decisions ...
(Re)Learning from the Ground-Breaking Judgement of the Supreme Court of Mauritius Decriminalising Sodomy: A Kenyan Perspective
On 4 October 2023, the Supreme Court of Mauritius delivered a ground-breaking judgment in the case of Abdool Ah Seek v State of Mauritius, which effectively ruled that a law criminalising sodomy is "unconstitutional." The Court held ...
A Harbinger of Justice or a Pandora’s Box? The Kenyan Supreme Court Broadens the Scope of Judicial Review
The Kenyan Supreme Court has issued further directions clarifying the scope of judicial review law in its decision on 16th June 2023 in Edwin Harold Dayan Dande & 3 Others v The Inspector General, National Police Service & 5 ...
Kenya’s Constitutional Court Certifies Structural Interdict as an Interlocutory Remedy
Kenya's constitutional court has demonstrated its flexibility in facilitating the progressive realisation of the constitutional aspirations through the rapidly evolving jurisprudence on Article 43 of the Constitution of Kenya 2010. As ...
Kenya Enacts Contempt of Court Act to Uphold the Right to a Fair Trial
For a long time, the law on contempt of court in Kenya was outdated and quite unsatisfactory. However, Kenya recently enacted the Contempt of Court Act, Act No 46 of 2016 (‘the Act’) to reflect and conform to Article 50 of the ...
