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Kenya’s Virtual Asset Service Providers Act, 2025: A new licensing and supervision framework for VASPs

24 Nov 2025
BY Mahesh Acharya, Anthony Gakuru, Duane Wekesa
The President of the Republic of Kenya has assented to the Virtual Asset Service Providers Act, 2025 (“VASP Act”), which came into force on 4 November 2025.
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US trade marks – The Vetements case

IP | 27 Jun 2025
BY Jade Courtney
In this article, we discuss an interesting trade mark case that recently came up in the USA. The article deals with the issue of descriptive trade marks related to the case.
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The authority of Bar Councils to apply for striking off of advocates from the roll

14 Jan 2025
BY Aslam Moosajee
The Legal Practice Act 28 of 2014 (“the LPA”) came into effect on 1 November 2018 and the Legal Practice Council (“the LPC”) issued an advisory note to all advocates on 18 April 2019 related to trans…
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Kenya: The Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Bill, 2023 signed into law: anticipated key changes to various laws

28 May 2024
BY Nigel Shaw, Pooja Rehal
The Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Bill, 2023 was assented into law on 24 April 2024 and came into force on 26 April 2024 upon gazettement in the Kenya Gazette
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Lesotho’s updated Labour Act – Promoting fair labour practices and equitable employment relations in line with global standards

Africa regulatory ENSight | 28 May 2024
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Lesotho's new Labour Act, 2024, which came into force on 2 April 2024, consolidates all labour and employment laws, replacing the Labour Code Order, 1992 and introduces significant changes.
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Why South Africa  should emulate Italy’s adoption of  the new Italian Insolvency Code

19 Sep 2023
BY
The new Italian Insolvency Code came into effect on 15 July 2022, effectively changing the status quo by attempting to resolve the financial distress of companies and minimise damage through restruct…
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Ed Sheeran off the “hook” in copyright battle

05 Jun 2023
BY Gaelyn Scott
The funny thing about IP law is that it can protect things as diverse as highly complex ground-breaking inventions that may save millions of lives, to a snippet of the most banal music, something tha…
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Amendments to the Harare Protocol and Implementing Regulations as of 1 January 2022

01 Feb 2022
BY Rowan Forster
On 1 January 2022, a number of additional amendments to the Harare Protocol on Patents and Industrial Designs and the Implementing Regulations for ARIPO came into effect.    
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Collateral arrangements in 2021

tax | 03 Nov 2021
BY Michael Reifarth, Magda Snyckers
The concept of a “collateral arrangement” was inserted into South African tax legislation and came into force on 1 January 2016.
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De-identified information under POPIA

26 Oct 2021
BY
The Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (“POPIA”) came into effect on 1 July 2021
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EE Bill out for comment: Are employers ready to take employment equity more seriously?

employment | 16 Feb 2021
BY Lauren Salt
It is that time of year when employment equity compliance should be particularly front-of-mind for employers as the filing season came to an end on 15 January 2021.
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#ENSafricaMRU200 | Where it all began

03 Dec 2020
BY
Head of ENSafrica Mauritius, Thierry Koenig takes us back to the beginning and explains the history of how ENSafrica Mauritius came to be what it is today.
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Mauritius: P2P lending now has its own specific licence

08 Sep 2020
BY
The Financial Services (Peer to Peer Lending) Rules 2020 came into force on 15 August 2020.
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The validity of an arbitration clause if the agreement is induced by fraud

07 Jul 2020
BY
Is a dispute resolution clause in a contract that came about as the result of fraud and misrepresentation regarded as invalid?
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Section 200B of the Labour Relations Act: The Labour Appeal Court’s interpretation

employment | 08 Oct 2019
BY Siphamandla Dube
One of the important amendments to the Labour Relations Act, 1995 (“LRA”) which came into effect on 1 January 2015 was the insertion of section 200B into the LRA. Section 200B of the LRA provides tha…
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