Legal

Overview

Legal Section provides legal services and ensures compliance with statutory requirements contained in relevant statutes and laws of Kenya.

Functions

The main functions include:
i. Monitoring legal risks and mitigation measures
ii. Insuring Company property and Employees
iii. Developing and reviewing company contracts
iv. Custodian of all Company legal instruments
v. Liaising with Company advocates and regulatory authorities to defend company position during litigation

Introduction

Chemelil Sugar Company Limited’s Legal Section provides legal services and ensures compliance with statutory requirements contained in relevant statutes and laws of Kenya.

Vision

To achieve excellence in provision of legal services in support of the Company’s objective and growth.

Mission Statement

To protect the Company from legal problems and minimize undue financial cost by identifying, communicating, and mitigating legal risks to the business.

Strategic Objectives

• To Ensure compliance with statutory obligations
• To minimize litigation against the Company.
• To ensure that the Company’s property and Employees are properly insured against identified and insurable risks
• To develop, implement, and review all services and Purchase of goods contracts.
• To improve information Management in the Unit.
• To implement ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System.
• To monitor the performance of the unit.

Our Team

Legal Section, has an establishment of 6 staff;

• Legal Services Manager
• Legal Services Officer
• Principal Insurance & Pensions Officer
• Insurance & Pensions Assistant
• Legal Assistant
• Administrative Secretary

Status Statement by the Legal Section

• The Legal Section has registered achievements and equally experienced challenges. Despite the challenges, staff within the Section stridently work towards the achievement of the Section’s mission of protecting the Company from legal suits and minimizing undue financial cost by identifying, communicating, and mitigating legal risks to the business. In the year 2020, the Legal Section negotiated and recorded out of Court settlements saving the company Kshs 10 million in incidental costs had cases proceeded to full trial.
• In pursuit of fulfilling the Section’s objectives, plans are afoot to establish programmes to enable members of the Company’s surrounding community as our stakeholders to benefit from our legal services. The planned programmes will include organizing legal clinics, a legal sensitization and awareness week, and handling some probono cases. The Legal Section, under the leadership of Mr. Collins Agai and assisted by the following able and committed staff Mr. George Tawo and Caroline Mango, therefore appeals for the support of all Company stakeholders to actualize these programmes.