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Quirky and aberrant flâneur | Random smorgasbord of reflections, private musings, and social commentary | Part of the herd - Irrepressible Gunner!

[kijana ya Manchester🧢 @dropdalot]

scrap metal business should be banned.

[rene.pdf (draft) @odanga_r]

Eerm...
@Safaricom_Care When you have a moment, would you please mind explaining why you require biometric verification (fingerprints) when replacing a sim card at your service shops? And if possible, please specify which legal provision this is based on.

[Michelle Aseka @AsekaMicheleLLB]

Do you guys find it insanely attractive when a man moves around with cash(( not like ati having money) but like having the hard cash in his wallet or sth. When he's going to pay for something and pays in cash instead of Mpesa or it's just me?😂Something so manly about it idk.

[Okong' Okuna @XivTroy]

The DNA debate is one I find almost amusing because what is the expectation? That I will find out you willfully targeted me for deceit, because you concluded I was too stupid to connect the dots, and I should pat you in the back while singing Kumbaya?😂

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

Watching people present AI generated slides and they’re reading it for the first time live on stage

[EMS Law LLP @Lexken_EMSLaw]

🚨 Court of Appeal upholds the reduction of a legal fee from almost KES 90 million to KES 1 million.

This is Prof. Tom Ojienda and Associates v Nairobi City County, Civil Appeal No. 273 of 2020. Here is what it means.

The firm had acted for the County in a constitutional petition about how public revenue is administered. When it drew its bill of costs, it put the total at about KES 156.8 million, with roughly KES 89.9 million of that as the instruction fee, the core fee for taking on and running the matter. That instruction fee was anchored on a claimed subject matter value of KES 20 billion. On taxation, the court process for assessing a lawyer's bill, the taxing officer brought the instruction fee down to KES 1 million. The High Court upheld that, and the Court of Appeal has now agreed.

How you value the subject matter. This is the heart of the decision. In a constitutional or public law case, the value of the matter for costs is taken from the pleadings, the judgment or any settlement. It cannot be extrapolated from the size of the public funds or revenues the case happened to touch, unless there was a direct monetary claim or real financial exposure. The petition concerned revenue administration, but it was not a claim for KES 20 billion, so that figure could not drive the fee.

Three further points.

✅ First, a court will not disturb a taxing officer's assessment simply because the figure looks high or low. It steps in only where there is an error of principle, or the fee is so manifestly excessive or so inordinately low as to be an injustice.

✅ Second, not every slip or misquoted authority by the taxing officer justifies setting the award aside. The error must be material and must substantially affect the final figure. Third, the fee prescribed under Schedule 6(1)(j) of the Advocates Remuneration Order is a floor, a statutory minimum, and the taxing officer keeps discretion to scale it up for complexity, novelty and public importance. A floor is not a licence to inflate.

On one side, advocates deserve fair, and sometimes substantial, pay for demanding public interest and constitutional work, and the Remuneration Order sets a minimum precisely so lawyers are not short changed. On the other, fees charged to a public body are paid from public funds, and letting a notional value, the size of a budget a case brushes against, set the fee would let costs balloon far beyond what was actually in issue. The balance the court strikes is that value flows from what the case truly put in dispute, not from the largest number nearby.

Key takeaway: the fee follows the real subject matter. When a bill of costs is drawn, the value must come from what was actually claimed or decided, not from the biggest figure in the vicinity. And a taxing officer's considered discretion is hard to overturn.

👉 Follow @Lexken_EMSLaw for practical legal insights on legal costs and advocate remuneration.

[ᵢₛₐₙDₐ @isanda]

Freddie Jackson was an absolute legend. Amazing crooner... On the other hand Jeffrey Archer was the darling of many a reader, but quite a fiddler with the truth.

[Starehe Boys' Centre & School @Starehe_Boys]

Starehe doesn't just educate — it charges you to serve.

Living the Charge: a $100K initiative by Starehe alum Socrates Okong'o funding free volunteer opportunities for gifted, underprivileged students across Kenya.

Talent is everywhere. Opportunity isn't.

#LivingTheCharge

[ᵢₛₐₙDₐ @isanda]

hehehe.

[Wan Stan 🔰 @Stan_Subru]

At my young age, I had allergies. I would always be coughing and sneezing. One day mum brought water from this shrine that it will heal me and everyone else in the house. I refused to take the water and called out the bullshit she almost excommunicated me buana. 😂😂😂

[Chris @chrisonyimbo]

@TheAfricaReport Mr. Condemn in the strongest terms

[ᵢₛₐₙDₐ @isanda]

i'm yelping!

[Colin Asiimwe @Spartakussug]

Someone’s entire business model has collapsed with this announcement.

Projected revenues. Futures incomes. Paper and printing logistics. Fees for stamps.

All wiped just like that.

[ᵢₛₐₙDₐ @isanda]

Two things....the lightning ⚡ streaks - been a minute, and what in the Tennessee are snoring squeals/squeaks

[Pesa Wall @PesaWall]

Former CBK Governor, Dr. Patrick Njoroge, has proposed a major change on how income generated from mobile money customer funds held in trust is distributed.

In his comments on the draft National Payment System Policy, August 2026, he proposed amending payment laws and regulations to require Payment Service Providers to make “bonus payouts” to wallet holders from income earned on customer funds held in trust, after deducting operating costs of the trust.

The proposal, if adopted, will shift part of the income generated by these funds from charities to the millions of customers, whose money generates the returns.

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[Jeffrey K 🍉 @JayFreaKay]

1st World Major done!

Berlin Marathon 2026 done, with a bad hamstring and 24°C weather

[Renaissance ⚔️ Morio @RamzZy_]

I just want to remind everyone who told me courts don’t work that despite delays & intentional sabotage, I have joint legal & physical custody of my kids cos I fought for them.

I could’ve walked away into the sunset with a new baddie but I understand what loyalty & adulting is.

[𝕊2𝕁𝔸𝕐𝕐🦅 @JayyOclock]

the relief after returning someone's missed call and they also don't pickup😂

[ᵢₛₐₙDₐ @isanda]

Related question: When taking a domestic flight that is largely over dry land, what is the rationale for conducting an emergency water-landing drill, given that the flight is not exactly “overseas”?

[Blissful✨ @just_Enhle07]

Someone please educate me, why do we need seatbelts on a plane? Because in my head, if the plane crashes, a seatbelt won’t exactly save me anyway. 😭✈️

[Sky Sports Premier League @SkySportsPL]

ARSENAL ARE THE 2025/26 PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS! 🏆🔴

[ᵢₛₐₙDₐ @isanda]

Woah!

[David Ornstein @David_Ornstein]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. #MCFC expected to appeal against verdict issued by independent commission. Sanctions undecided, process ongoing @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/Muxqp4beK9