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bankruptcy law in kenya Essay

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UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI
COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
SCHOOL OF LAW

LL.B. III MODULE 2: DAY
TERM PAPER: GPR 317:BANKRUPTCY AND COMMERCIAL SECURITIES
AUGUST 2013

G34/36801/2010

QUESTION: Critically examine the salient features, reforms and innovations relating to individual insolvency as enshrined in the Kenyan Insolvency Bill 2012 as contrasted with the Bankruptcy Act, cap 53, Laws of Kenya.

INTRODUCTION
The Kenyan Insolvency Bill 2012 is an act of parliament to: amend and consolidate the law relating to the insolvency of natural persons and incorporated and unincorporated bodies; to provide alternative procedures to bankruptcy that will enable the affairs of insolvent natural persons to be managed for …show more content…

The insolvency practitioner would be required to be qualified and the aim of the legislation was to “help the profession to clean up its act”. Challenges to implementation were, amongst other things:
Legislating for a modern insolvency legal framework
The acceptance of that framework by society;
Explaining to stakeholders how the system would Function
Ensuring that the laws were passed by Parliament and then establishing the institutions necessary to implement them
The presence of sufficient legal and economic expertise to implement the new regime.
SALIENT FEATURES RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL INSOLVENCY AS ENSHRINED IN INSOLVENCY BILL 2012
The most important and noticeable features relating to individual insolvency are substantially similar to those of corporate bodies’ insolvency however the provisions of liquidation and winding up are more detailed and exclusive to incorporated and unincorporated bodies alike.
These salient features are as follows:
1. Circumstances where the individual is insolvent include where he has insufficient assets with which to discharge his debts and financial liabilities.
NOTE: An individual may be insolvent but not be bankrupt however cannot be bankrupt without being declared insolvent first.
2. Once insolvency is established a receiving order is prepared and granted by the court upon application of a bankruptcy petition filed by either the creditors or the debtor. NOTE: Once an order has been made against an

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