On matters of grave concern to the country — in diverse fields such as taxation, law enforcement, corporate criminality and crime detection and many others — there is a distinct Kenyan trait of forgetfulness and total disregard by the citizenry and the law enforcement agencies to bring to closure issues which come into the public domain from time to time.

A news item tucked in the inside pages of our local dailies in mid-December announced that three international banks – JP Morgan, Barclays Capital and Standard Bank – would guide Kenya in the process of borrowing Sh173 billion for the purposes of infrastructural development.

I am writing this column on Sunday, the 15th of December, 2013, a day I, with millions others, will remember and cherish for the rest of our lives. The images both in life and death of the greatest lawyer the world has ever seen — Nelson Rohihlalha Mandela — will be engraved in the annals of history forever.

I am writing this column on Sunday, the 15th of December, 2013, a day I, with millions others, will remember and cherish for the rest of our lives

The path of the tribunal set up last Friday to investigate the conduct of six members of the Judicial Service Commission is going to be a thorny one.

The new Matrimonial Property Bill is destined to become law soon when the President assents to it.

In over 110 years of Kenya’s history based on common law — through the colonial period to the post-Independence era — there is no record of even a single instance where miscarriage of justice has been acknowledged by the legal system.

Laws on investigations of deaths, other than by natural causes, are set to change with the National Coroners Service Bill, 2011, coming up for debate in the National Assembly soon.