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Introducing

LexWakili

AI-powered Kenyan case law research. Every answer grounded in real indexed judgments, with full citation and court provenance shown for each — now with scenario-based applicability analysis and persuasive foreign authority.

141,000+
Judgment passages indexed
7
Kenyan court jurisdictions covered
3
Persuasive foreign jurisdictions available
Seconds
Not hours, to find authorities
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The Problem

Legal research in Kenya is still done the hard way.

Kenyan advocates spend hours -- sometimes entire working days -- searching Kenya Law, cross-referencing authorities, and verifying citations, before a single brief is written. That time is either written off, billed at reduced rates, or quietly absorbed into firm overhead. There is a better way.

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Billable time lost to search
Associates regularly spend 3-5 hours locating and verifying authorities for a single matter. At KES 8,000-20,000 per hour, that is 25,000-100,000 KES of research time per brief -- time that generates little additional revenue compared to analysis and drafting.
02
No institutional memory
When a senior associate leaves your firm, they take with them years of accumulated knowledge about where to look, which cases matter, and which principles have evolved. That knowledge walks out the door and must be rebuilt from scratch.
03
Kenya Law is comprehensive, not searchable
Kenya Law's database now contains over 300,000 published judgments. No advocate can manually read that corpus. Keyword search returns too many irrelevant hits; the most important authorities are routinely missed.
04
Junior advocates unsupported
New graduates and junior associates lack the experience to immediately know which line of authority applies to an unusual fact pattern. They spend more time searching and produce less confident first drafts, creating bottlenecks for senior supervision.
How It Works

Ask in plain English. Get grounded answers.

LeXWakili is not a chatbot that generates text. It is a research system that retrieves and synthesises what courts have actually said, with every claim traceable back to a specific judgment.

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You ask a legal research question
"What is the threshold for granting a conservatory order under Article 23?" or "What approach do courts take to adverse possession claims where title was registered in error?" -- in plain language, the way you would ask a colleague.
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The system searches the indexed corpus
LeXWakili searches semantically across 141,000+ indexed passages from Kenyan judgments -- not keyword matching, but meaning-matching. It finds the most relevant extracts across Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, and specialist jurisdictions.
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You receive a synthesised answer with authorities
The response states the applicable legal principle, then lists every case it drew from -- case number, court, citation, and a relevance score. You can click through to read the original indexed passage and link to the full judgment on Kenya Law.
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Share instantly, trace every claim
Generate a permanent shareable link for any research result -- send it directly to a colleague, a partner checking your work, or a client. Every cited authority links back to its source.
"What is the test for granting conservatory orders under Article 23 of the Constitution?"
The test for conservatory orders under Article 23, as articulated by the Supreme Court in Gatirau Peter Munya v Dickson Mwenda Kithinji [2014], requires the applicant to satisfy three criteria: (1) a prima facie case with a likelihood of success; (2) demonstration that failure to grant the orders would render the petition nugatory; and (3) that granting the orders is in the public interest and consistent with constitutional values. Conservatory orders are distinguished from interlocutory injunctions in that they are not anchored to private interests such as irreparable harm -- they bear on constitutional significance.
PETITION NO. E011 OF 2026 Supreme Court | [2014] eKLR | 0.711 match
CONSTITUTIONAL PETITION NO. E051 OF 2026 High Court of Kenya | [2025] eKLR | 0.708 match
ELD ELRC PET NO. E009 OF 2025 ELRC | [2025] eKLR | 0.706 match

Actual output from a live research session. Citations are real indexed judgments from the Kenya Law corpus.

New — Applicability Analysis

Ask a different question: does this precedent actually apply to my client's facts?

Finding a case on point is only half the job -- the harder question is whether a court would treat it as governing your client's specific facts, or as distinguishable. LeXWakili now answers that question directly, case by case.

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Describe the scenario, not a search term
Switch to "Applicability Analysis" mode and describe your client's facts in plain language -- who did what, when, and to whom -- the way you would brief a colleague, not the way you would query a database.
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Candidate cases are reconstructed near-full, not just the matching snippet
A single best-matching passage is often the wrong slice of a judgment to compare facts against -- it might be the holding, not the facts section. LeXWakili instead reassembles each candidate case from all of its indexed chunks in original order, so the comparison has real context to work with.
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Each case is scored APPLIES, ANALOGOUS, or DISTINGUISHABLE
For every candidate, you get an explicit determination, the specific matching facts, the specific distinguishing facts, and a confidence level -- plus a warning if the case's lineage shows it was later overruled or modified.
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One overall assessment, not eight things to read
A short closing summary tells you which case, if any, most likely governs your client's scenario, and the single biggest gap or risk to flag before you rely on it.
"My client was convicted of robbery with violence and sentenced to death. On first appeal the High Court upheld both. He now wants to argue, for the first time on second appeal, that the mandatory death sentence is unconstitutional and that he was never given a proper opportunity to present mitigating factors before sentencing. This point about the constitutionality of the sentence was not raised at either the trial or the first appeal — it is being raised for the first time now."
Barawa v Republic [2025] KECA 1524 (KLR) — APPLIES. The appellant was convicted of robbery with violence, sentenced to death, and the High Court upheld conviction and sentence on first appeal -- then raised the sentence's constitutionality for the first time on second appeal, matching your client's procedural posture exactly. Confidence: HIGH.

Mukhwana v Republic [2026] KECA 154 (KLR) — DISTINGUISHABLE. Same offence and sentence, but the indexed text addresses only first-appeal grounds on identification evidence, not a second appeal on constitutionality. Confidence: HIGH.
KECA 2026/154 Court of Appeal | 7/21 chunks used | 0.861 match
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 300 OF 2007 Court of Appeal | 8/32 chunks used | 0.864 match
CRIMINAL CASE NO. E045 OF 2025 High Court | 7/39 chunks used | 0.859 match

Actual output from a live comparison. Case names shown are real, indexed judgments -- the excerpt above is condensed for space.

Coverage

Seven court jurisdictions. One search.

The indexed corpus spans the full hierarchy of Kenya's court system, with ongoing ingestion from Kenya Law's published judgment database.

SC
Supreme Court of Kenya
Constitutional interpretation, final appeals, presidential election petitions.
CA
Court of Appeal
Civil and criminal appeals, the primary source of settled legal principles across most practice areas.
HC
High Court of Kenya
Commercial, constitutional, criminal, family, and general civil jurisdiction. The largest single source by volume.
EL
Environment and Land Court
Land disputes, environmental matters, compulsory acquisition, adverse possession.
ER
Employment and Labour Relations Court
Wrongful dismissal, redundancy, trade disputes, statutory benefits.
TA
Tax Appeals Tribunal
KRA assessments, transfer pricing, VAT, corporate tax disputes.
New — Persuasive Foreign Authority

Kenyan courts borrow from certain jurisdictions. Now you can search them too.

When Kenyan authority on a point is thin or unsettled, Kenyan courts routinely turn to the same three common-law jurisdictions for persuasive reasoning. LeXWakili now lets you opt in to search them alongside the Kenyan corpus, per query.

ZA
South Africa
Constitutional Court, Supreme Court of Appeal, and the High Court divisions -- the jurisdiction Kenyan courts cite most often on constitutional and rights-based reasoning.
IN
India
Supreme Court of India and the state High Courts -- a frequent source on public interest litigation and constitutional interpretation.
UK
United Kingdom
The Supreme Court (and House of Lords for older authority), Court of Appeal, and High Court of England & Wales -- the historical common-law foundation much of Kenyan law was built on.

Foreign authority is opt-in only -- it is never mixed into a result unless you select it, and it is always clearly labelled PERSUASIVE with its jurisdiction. Within the citation ordering, every foreign authority sorts below every Kenyan court, however senior -- a foreign apex court never crowds out binding Kenyan precedent. Because it broadens the retrieval pool, a query that includes any foreign jurisdiction uses more credits than a Kenya-only query.

Why LeXWakili

This is not what you have tried before.

Existing tools were built for a different market. LeXWakili is built specifically for the Kenyan legal corpus, the Kenyan practitioner, and the way Kenyan courts actually reason.

Capability Manual search (Kenya Law) Generic AI tools (ChatGPT etc.) LeXWakili
Answers grounded in real Kenyan judgments Partially -- you must read and identify ✗ May hallucinate citations ✓ Every claim linked to indexed source
Covers full corpus (300K+ cases) Yes, but not practically searchable ✗ Training cutoff, not live data ✓ Live, continuously ingesting
Semantic understanding of legal questions ✗ Keyword only ✓ ✓
Cites specific case number, court, citation ✓ ✗ Often fabricates ✓ With relevance score per source
Shareable research links ✗ Varies by tool ✓ 90-day permanent links
Filter by court or jurisdiction Partially ✗ ✓
Judges whether a precedent applies to YOUR facts Manually, case by case ✗ May invent the comparison ✓ APPLIES / ANALOGOUS / DISTINGUISHABLE per case
Persuasive foreign authority (South Africa, India, UK) Only if you know where to look ✗ Mixed in, not distinguished from binding ✓ Opt-in, clearly labelled, never outranks Kenyan law
Organisation accounts -- firm-level access ✗ ✗ ✓ Shared credit pool per firm
Data stays in Kenya ✓ ✗ Data sent to overseas servers ✓ Hosted on Kenyan-region VPS
The question is not whether AI will change legal research in Kenya. It will. The question is whether your firm will be ahead of that shift or catching up to it. -- LeXWakili, 2026
Trust and Security

Built for the professional standards your firm requires.

Lawyer-client privilege places unique obligations on any technology a firm adopts. LeXWakili was designed with those obligations in mind from the beginning.

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Every query requires authentication
No anonymous access. Every session is tied to a verified account. Your research history is your own, not shared with other firms.
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Hosted in Kenya
The entire system runs on servers in the region. Your queries and research do not leave East African jurisdiction. No data is processed by overseas AI providers.
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Organisation accounts with role control
Firm partners manage who has access. Add associates via invite link, remove access immediately when someone leaves. Billing is firm-level, not per-individual.
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Sources are traceable, not generated
LeXWakili does not invent citations. Every authority shown is drawn from an indexed passage of a real published judgment, with a direct link to verify on Kenya Law.
Pricing

Straightforward monthly plans or pay-as-you-go.

Choose between a recurring monthly subscription (card billing) or one-time credit packs payable via M-Pesa, card, or bank transfer. No long-term contracts required to start.

Starter
Individual practitioner
KES 1,500
per month, or as a one-time credit pack
✓ 200 research queries
✓ All court jurisdictions
✓ Shareable research links
✓ M-Pesa or card payment
Growth
Small firm or busy practitioner
KES 6,000
per month, or as a one-time credit pack
✓ 1,000 research queries
✓ All court jurisdictions
✓ Shareable research links
✓ M-Pesa or card payment
Firm
Full firm deployment
KES 20,000
per month, or as a one-time credit pack
✓ 4,000 research queries
✓ Shared firm credit pool
✓ Organisation management
✓ Add and remove associates

Every new account receives 15 free research queries at registration -- no card required to start. One-time packs can be purchased using M-Pesa, bank transfer, or card. Monthly subscriptions require card billing for automatic renewal. Queries that include persuasive foreign authority (South Africa, India, or UK) use more of your query allowance than a Kenya-only query, reflecting the larger search and comparison performed.

What is Coming

We are building the research platform Kenyan law firms deserve.

LeXWakili is live and in active use today. Here is what is coming next for clients already on the platform.

Now -- Live
Core Research
  • 141,000+ indexed passages
  • 7 Kenyan court jurisdictions
  • Semantic case law search
  • Applicability analysis (scenario vs. precedent)
  • Persuasive foreign authority -- South Africa, India, UK
  • Court and jurisdiction filters
  • Shareable research links
  • Organisation accounts
  • M-Pesa and card billing
Q3 2026
Full Corpus
  • Complete 300,000+ case corpus
  • Legislation and statutes index
  • Full judgment viewer
  • Research history and saved queries
  • Admin visibility dashboard
Q4 2026
Firm Tools
  • Export to Word / PDF
  • Research memo drafting assistant
  • Case tracking and alerts
  • Per-matter research threads
  • Usage analytics per associate
2027
Practice Tools
  • Document review and comparison
  • Contract clause library
  • Court filing deadlines integration
  • Multi-jurisdiction East Africa

Start researching in the next five minutes.

Create an account, receive 15 free queries, and run your first real research question against the indexed corpus. No card required.

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