Insight type: Legal Alert

The much-awaited regulations for the implementation of the Data Protection Act, 2019 (the DPA), which were gazetted in January, have been approved and are now in force.

 

Having proposed that the suggested amendments to the Forest Management and Conservation Act 2016 (the Act) are not strictly necessary, we now discuss whether the proposed amendments are justified.

As we move towards a holistic approach to evaluating companies’ performance, the environmental, social and governance (ESG) indicator has now been universally accepted as a valuable metric at gauging the non-financial performance of a company.

 

Digital lenders have until now been generally carrying on business unregulated.

 

 

Considerable attention has been directed at climate change and its impact on the environment in recent years. At a global level, this attention resulted in the Paris Climate Accords of 2015, an international treaty containing prescriptions on climate change mitigation, adaptation, and finance (Paris Climate Accords).

 

In 2020, the US and Kenya commenced negotiations to conclude a Free Trade Agreement (FTA).

 

 

In 2016, a petition was filed in court (Malindi Law Society versus the Attorney General of Kenya & Another (Petition No. 19 of 2016)) challenging the provisions of section 12A of the Land Act which made it mandatory for foreigners seeking to own first and second-row beach plots in Kenya to obtain consent from the Cabinet Secretary for Lands and Physical Planning. The court issued a conservatory order that barred the implementation of section 12A in 2016 pending the full hearing and determination of the Petition.

 

 

At the end of September 2021, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta issued a statement on the presidential taskforce appointed to, among other things, review the power purchase agreements (PPAs) entered into between the State-owned off-taker, Kenya Power & Lighting Company (KPLC) and independent power producers.

 

The Forest Management and Conservation (Amendment) Bill 2021 (the Bill) seeks to amend the Forest Management and Conservation Act 2016 (the Act) by deleting section 34(2A) and inserting certain new provisions in its place.

 

The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) two financial free zones, the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), have data protection laws in place (largely inspired by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), however until recently there was no comprehensive data protection law at the UAE federal level and persons impacted by data breaches or misuse of personal data had to rely on certain restricted provisions set out in the UAE’s Constitution, Penal Code and Cyber Crime Law.