Court orders Kenya School of Law to admit student within 60 days
The Tribunal had, in March 2025, directed KSL to admit Ndung'u after allowing his appeal against the school's earlier refusal to enrol him.
The High Court in Nairobi has directed the Kenya School of Law (KSL) to admit a student, Samuel Mbugua Ndung'u, to the Advocates Training Programme (ATP) within 60 days.
This is after the court found that the institution had not complied with orders previously issued by the Legal Education Appeals Tribunal.
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In a ruling delivered on October 30, 2025, Justice Nixon Sifuna said that although the Court did not find the KSL's board members and Chief Executive Officer, Henry Kibet Mutai, to be in willful contempt, they had failed to implement the Tribunal's valid orders.
The Tribunal had, in March 2025, directed KSL to admit Ndung'u after allowing his appeal against the school's earlier refusal to enrol him.
The Tribunal had ruled that Ndung'u was eligible for admission to the ATP, a mandatory programme for law graduates seeking to qualify as advocates in Kenya. Despite this, KSL did not admit him to the ongoing 2024/2025 academic year, prompting Ndung'u to file a contempt application at the High Court.
In his application, Ndung'u urged the Court to find that KSL's board, the CEO, and other officials had disobeyed the Tribunal's orders and to commit them to prison for six months or fine them until they purged the contempt by admitting him to the programme.
However, in his ruling, Justice Sifuna said that while the explanation offered by the respondents for the delay in complying with the Tribunal's decision was reluctantly accepted, the school must now fully comply with the directive.
"The respondents are only lucky that this Court could not reasonably find that they were in willful and blatant contempt," the judge stated. "However, they must comply with the Tribunal's orders within sixty (60) days, failing which this Court will mete out appropriate sanctions."
The Court ordered that Ndung'u be admitted in the upcoming 2025/2026 academic intake and that KSL file a compliance report by January 14, 2026, when the matter will be mentioned for further directions.
Justice Sifuna also ordered that the ruling be served upon the Attorney General and the Council of Legal Education's CEO, and awarded Ndung'u the costs of the application.
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