The Law Society of Kenya has come out to issue a warning to families of the Ethiopian Airline plane crash victims.
LSK stated that two foreign firms purporting to represent the families in a case against the Boeing plane manufacturer were not qualified to practice in Kenya under provisions of the Advocates Act.
LSK president Allen Gichuhi stated that foreigners Friedman Rubintrial lawyers & law offices of Shakespear N Feyissa had made an advertisement on a local daily offering legal services to the families.
“This is to caution unsuspecting members of the public that the persons appearing on the piece published by the Daily Nation purporting to offer legal services to families of the victims of the Ethiopian air plane crash are not qualified to practice law in Kenya under the provisions of the Advocates Act,” read a statement from LSK.
Gichuhi also stated that LSK had launched an investigation into how the said foreigners have been allowed to offer legal services in the country.
The Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed on March 10, 2019, killing everyone on board which included 36 Kenyans.
Reports had initially indicated that 32 Kenyans had died on the crash but later information revealed that 4 more Kenyans had died.
The plane had been carrying also 18 Canadians, 6 Egyptians, 9 Ethiopians, 7 French nationals, 8 Americans 8 Italians 8 Chinese, and 7 Britons and 2 were yet to be identified.
Among the dead were five members of the same family, in which a woman and her mother, plus her children, who were flying to Kenya from Canada, lost their lives.
