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Lady Justice Roselyn Nambuye of the Court of Appeal. [George Njunge, Standard]
The search for Kenya’s next Chief Justice and Supreme Court judge is now unimpeded after the Court of Appeal overturned a lower court’s ruling which stopped the exercise last week.
The Appellate Court said Tuesday that the High Court erroneously issued the order stopping the process without determining whether it had jurisdiction to hear the matter.
Justices Roselyn Nambuye, Patrick Kiage and Sankale Ole Kantai noted that the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and the Attorney General (AG) lodged a strong case with a high probability of success.
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Justice Reuben Nyakundi at the Mombasa High Court [Photo/Kelvin Karani]
The search for a new Chief Justice has been thrown into uncertainty after the High Court stopped the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) from evaluating the candidates after the interviews end tomorrow.
High Court Judges Anthony Mrima, Reuben Nyakundi and Wilfrida Okwany allowed the JSC to continue with the interviews but ordered that the commissioners should not make any further considerations to evaluate the most suitable person out of the 10 applicants for CJ’s position.
The judges also stopped the Commission from conducting interviews for a Supreme Court Judge to replace retired Justice Jackton Ojwang pending determination of three petitions challenging the processes.