By OUMA WANZALAMore by this AuthorA government-backed Bill before Parliament could end the Kenya School of Law’s (KSL) monopoly as the sole training centre for advocates. It proposes an amendment to the Kenya School of Law Act, 2012, to allow other institutions to train advocates. It also proposes that the Council for Legal Education (CLE) determine the admission requirements for the advocates’ training programme and administer the pre-bar examination. In addition, it proposes that CLE accredit the universities that will train advocates. The report indicated that between 2009 and 2016, only 7,530 of the 16,086 students who sat the bar examinations administered by CLE passed.

Source: Daily Nation April 24, 2018 20:26 UTC