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Lawyer feted for role in abolition of death sentence

Senior Counsel Fred Ngatia (pictured) has been ranked the top lawyer in dispute resolution in Kenya by the global lawyers’ audit firm Chambers and Partners.

Ngatia was rewarded for the notable public interest cases he handled in 2018, including the landmark case at the Supreme Court which abolished the mandatory death sentence, thereby coming to the rescue of over 4,000 prisoners of death row.

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