<html><head></head><body class="hmmessage" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; line-height: initial;">Perhaps, this could be a perfect opportunity for our learned friends/legal scholars on this forum to assist everyone else better interpret this statute and hopefully get it redone and improved once and for all. For instance, the Judge in her ruling, and for good measure weighed in with the very spectre of ambiguity in interpretation and enforcement. IMHO this is quite key and the crux of the matter at issue.</span></div><div style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; width: 374px; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; line-height: initial;">Harry</span></div> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; line-height: initial;"><br></span></div> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>From: </b>Grace Githaiga via kictanet</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, April 20, 2016 11:47 AM</div><div><b>To: </b>Harry Delano</div><div><b>Reply To: </b>KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions</div><div><b>Cc: </b>Grace Githaiga</div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [kictanet] CA to appeal court’s quashing of disputed law</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style="">
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<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">Thanks @Sydney for sharing. Just in case anyone interested missed out the ruling, it is attached. Riva shared it yesterday. </div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; line-height: 1.5em;">"Mr Wangusi added that there is nothing unconstitutional with section 29 of the Kica, and her interpretation of the law did not capture section 33 of the Constitution which caps the limits of freedom of expression. “I have not seen the ruling but definitely we are going to challenge it... There is nothing unconstitutional in that Act since it conforms to section 33 of the Kenyan Constitution,” Mr Wangusi said.</p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; line-height: 1.5em;">“While freedom of expression is guaranteed in our Constitution, the same Constitution states that one cannot use his freedom of expression to undermine the freedom of others,’’ he said.</p></div></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 11:29:01 +0300</span><br style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Subject: [kictanet] CA to appeal court’s quashing of disputed law [feedly]</span><br style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">From: kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</span><br style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">CC: sidney.ochieng@gmail.com</span><br style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">To: ggithaiga@hotmail.com</span><br style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I guess we're going to the Supreme Court?</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">---- <br><a href="http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CA-to-appeal-court-quashing-of-disputed-law/-/539546/3167252/-/br76uoz/-/index.html" target="_blank"><b>CA to appeal court’s quashing of disputed law</b></a><br>// <a href="http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CA-to-appeal-court-quashing-of-disputed-law/-/539546/3167252/-/br76uoz/-/index.html" target="_blank"><b>Business Daily</b></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The Communications Authority (CA) of Kenya has vowed to challenge a ruling by the High Court quashing a section of the Kenya Information and Communication Amendment (Kica) Act. <br>----</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Shared via <a href="http://feedly.com/" target="_blank"><b>my feedly reader</b></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Sidney</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Touched not typed from my Infinix Z3</p><br style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">_______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/ggithaiga%40hotmail.com The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, shar</span></div></div> </div>
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