Veteran lawyer and Senior Counsel Pheroze Nowrojee has died at the age of 84.

Kenya is mourning the loss of senior counsel Pheroze Nowrojee, whose name became synonymous with constitutionalism and civil rights.

The revered figure in Kenya’s legal fraternity built a formidable reputation over decades as a principled advocate for justice, having been called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1965 before his admission to the Kenyan Bar in 1967, thereafter extending his legal practice to Tanzania and Zanzibar.

He was renown not only for his courtroom brilliance and defence of constitutional values but also for his scholarly contributions, even as his career remained rooted in a steadfast belief in human rights and public interest law.