Privacy notice
Uwakili publishes a register of named people: advocates on the roll, judges and judicial officers, and the parties named in decisions that are already public. This notice says what we publish, why, and how to change it.
Who is responsible
Uwakili is the data controller for this register. Our registration with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner is in progress, and this notice will name the registration number once it is issued.
Questions and requests go to Timothy Mwirabua, who reads and answers them personally, at privacy@uwakili.com.
What we publish about advocates
Only the professional facts on the roll:
- Name
- Practice number (P.105) and, where the source carries it, the LSK membership number
- Date or year of admission
- Practice status
- County and firm, where the source carries them
Contact details (email, phone, address, website) are not published by default. They appear only after an advocate claims their own profile and switches them on, and they can be switched off again at any time.
Practice areas are self-declared by the advocate on their claimed profile. We never infer them from decisions.
What we do not publish, and will not
We publish facts, never conclusions about a person. The following are refused outright rather than deferred:
- Win and loss rates, success rates, scores, ratings or rankings of any advocate
- Analytics about a judge: ruling patterns, tendencies, reversal rates or disposal timelines
- Virtual court session links, which circulate through registries and not through us
- Kenya Law's headnotes, catchwords, summaries or citation apparatus, which are their work
What we publish about judges and judicial officers
Name, the court they sit in, their designation and their date of appointment, taken from the Kenya Gazette and Judicial Service Commission records. Nothing derived.
What we publish about people named in decisions
Decisions are published as the court delivered them, under the licence named on each page. Where a court has anonymised a judgment, we publish the anonymised version and do not attempt to undo it.
Where the data comes from
Every register carries its source, and every page names it. See where this data comes from for each dataset, its publisher and its licence.
Our lawful basis
We rely on legitimate interest for the professional facts about advocates and judicial officers: a person choosing legal representation, or attending court, needs to be able to check who is on the roll and who sits where, and that interest cannot be served without naming them. The data is limited to the professional minimum, is already published by the regulator or the state, and is not used for marketing.
We rely on consent for anything beyond that: publishing contact details, showing self-declared practice areas, and passing a claimed profile to the LawFirmly waitlist. Consent is asked for separately in each case, is never pre-ticked, and can be withdrawn.
Your rights
Under the Data Protection Act 2019 you may ask us to:
- Correct anything about you that is wrong
- Erase your details from the register
- Access a copy of what we hold about you
- Object to us publishing your details at all
Make a request. You will get a reference immediately, an acknowledgement within 7 days and a decision within 30 days. If we refuse, we tell you why and you can complain to the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner.
How long we keep it
Set out in the retention policy.
Sharing
We do not sell personal data and we do not run advertising. The one onward transfer is the LawFirmly waitlist, and it happens only when an advocate ticks the consent box during a claim.
Cookies
The register itself sets no cookies. Signing in to claim a profile sets a session cookie, which is necessary for the sign-in to work. We measure aggregate traffic to know which pages people reach.
Changes
When this notice changes materially we date the change here and, where the change affects a claimed profile, tell the advocate by email.
This notice describes what the site does. It is not legal advice, and it does not replace the opinion we are seeking on the questions in our publication legality review.