TY - JOUR
AU - Sang YK,, Brian
AB - Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/ojlr/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ojlr/rwz020/5571152 by Ed 'DeepDyve' Gillespie user on 18 September 2019 Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 2019, 0, 1–12 doi: 10.1093/ojlr/rwz020 Case Comment Constitutional Law and Atheists in Kenya: Affirming Associational Rights, Avoiding Non-Religious Freedoms Brian Sang YK* 1. INTRODUCTION On 25 January 2018, the High Court of Kenya rendered an important yet little noticed decision in Atheists in Kenya and Another v The Registrar of Societies and 2 Others. The Court set aside the decision of the respondent, the Registrar of Societies, to suspend the registration of the petitioner, the Atheists in Kenya (AIK) Society, on the basis that (i) the statutory procedure for revocation of registration was not followed and (ii) the respondents’ actions contravened the petitioners’ con- stitutional rights to freedom of association and fair administrative action. Atheists in Kenya, a decision that would probably not have been issued under the old dispensa- tion, reflects the expansive prospects for legal protection that is now established by the Constitution of Kenya, 2010. The positive implication of Atheists in Kenya is the principled restoration of the status of ‘legal entity’ for a (non-)religious minority group and the affirmation of its membership’s associational rights, all against the 
TI - Constitutional Law and Atheists in Kenya: Affirming Associational Rights, Avoiding Non-Religious Freedoms
JF - Oxford Journal of Law and Religion
DO - 10.1093/ojlr/rwz020
DA - 2019-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/constitutional-law-and-atheists-in-kenya-affirming-associational-WcT5kvYro3
SP - 668
VL - 8
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -