Senior Partner in the Commercial Employment and IPT Practice
DLA Piper Africa, Kenya
Several years back, I published an article calling for repeal of the law governing commercial leases in Kenya the statute with a mouthful of a name, the Landlord and Tenant (Shops, Hotels and Catering Establishments) Act.
I argued that the law, enacted in 1965, had become obsolete in the modern free market economy. At any rate, ingenious lawyers had found ways of circumventing its application by ensuring that commercial leases are for a term of not less than five years and have no termination clause.
