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Digital assets are arriving in Kenyan litigation faster than the profession is being equipped to handle them. This is training for the lawyers who will meet them.
A lawyer does not need to understand elliptic curve cryptography to litigate a crypto matter well. They do need to know what a blockchain record actually proves, where attribution comes from, which parts of an expert report are solid and which are inference dressed up as fact, and what questions will break a weak analysis.
That is a teachable body of knowledge, and it is currently held by very few people in this jurisdiction. Programmes are built around real material and real exercises rather than an overview lecture.
What this includes
- Foundational programmes on how digital assets and public ledgers work
- On-chain evidence: what it proves, how it is challenged, how to instruct an expert
- The VASP Act and Regulations, and the obligations they create for clients
- Asset tracing and recovery routes available in civil proceedings
- Judicial education on the handling of blockchain evidence
- Faculty partnership and curriculum contribution for law schools
How it runs
Every programme is scoped to the audience. A commercial litigation team, a judicial college and an undergraduate faculty need the same underlying concepts delivered in three different registers with three different assessments. Cohorts stay small because the exercises require a facilitator who can look over a participant's shoulder.
What you receive
- A programme built for your specific cohort, not an off-the-shelf deck
- Hands-on exercises using real public chain data
- Materials the institution retains and can teach from internally
- Certificates of completion for participants
Worth knowing
The single most useful hour in these programmes is usually the one spent on the limits of attribution. Lawyers who understand where an expert report becomes inference are markedly better at both defending and challenging one.
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