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Adjudicator draws a hard line on whether pension death benefits can default to beneficiary funds for minors

Death benefits payable by a retirement fund do not form part of a deceased’s estate. Instead, they must be distributed by the board of trustees in accordance with section 37C of the Pension Funds Act 24 of 1956, which requires an equitable allocation among dependants and nominees.

Labour Law Reform: Key Proposed Amendments

An employer’s occupational safety obligations when workplace violence becomes a work injury

In the recent Employment and aLabour Relations Court (ELRC) judgment of Dock Workers Union (K) v Director of Occupational Safety and Health Services and Five Others; Federation of Kenya Employers and Another (Interested Parties) (Petition E004 of 2024) KEELRC 51 (KLR) delivered on 23 January 2025, the court considered whether the death of an employee who was shot by unknown assailants at the employer’s premises constituted an occupational accident under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, 2007 (OSHA).

Unpacking the IRP2025

Following a media briefing on 19 October 2025, the Minister of Electricity and Energy (Minister) gazetted the Integrated Resource Plan 2025 (IRP2025) on 28 October 2025, which sets out the electricity generation capacity expansion plan for the country up to 2050.

Is Apple’s ecosystem innovative or anti-competitive?

On 23 January 2025, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched a Significant Market Status (SMS) investigation into Apple’s mobile ecosystem. This move marks a critical moment in the broader debate about whether Apple’s tightly integrated suite of products and services, spanning iOS, iPadOS, the App Store and Safari, represents a triumph of innovation or a form of anti-competitivebehaviour. 

East African Community signals imminent functionality of Competition Authority

On 31 December 2024, the East African Community (EAC) promulgated and brought into effect an amendment to the East African Community Competition Act (Amendment Act), as well as new regulations which set out the applicable merger thresholds and filing fees in the EAC. The EAC Competition Authority (Competition Authority) is currently not operational. However, as the promulgation of the Amendment Act and the regulations have addressed arguably the last of the outstanding issues pertaining to the EAC’s merger control regime, it is likely that the Competition Authority will, at the least, begin accepting merger notifications soon.