ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Legal Education Act
18. Licensing legal education providers
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
18. Licensing legal education providers
(1)An institution that intends to offer any course or programme of legal education in Kenya for the award of a degree, diploma or certificate as a professional qualification in law shall apply to the Council for a licence.(2)An application under subsection (1) shall be in the prescribed form and shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee.(3)A person who offers any course or programme of legal education in Kenya for the award of a degree, diploma or certificate as a professional qualification in law without a licence commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.(4)The Council may by notice in the Gazette declare a course or programme, specified in the notice, being offered or provided by any person or institution to be a course or programme for which a licence is required under this section.(5)A certificate of attendance at a course, workshop or seminar shall not be considered a degree, diploma or certificate for purposes of this Act.(6)A document issued at the end of a programme or training after the commencement of the Act, purporting to be evidence of the award of a degree, diploma or certificate in law shall not be valid unless the Council had licensed the programme or training.