Why lawyers face legal landmines in acting as proxies for foreign firms

Local representatives are exposed to prosecutions for the sins of their employers. FILE PHOTO | NMG

When the news broke last year that the Director of Public Prosecutions had instituted criminal charges against the lawyer who was involved in the registration of CMC Di Ravenna-Kenya branch, the company implicated in the Arror/Kimwarer dams saga, commercial lawyers went into a panic.

The DPP had charged the lawyer alongside the company and its directors with various offences relating to an alleged conspiracy to defraud the country of millions of shillings and fraudulently acquiring public property.

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