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Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu (left) after handing over instruments of power to new CJ Martha Koome during the assumption of office ceremony held at CJ s Gardens, Supreme Court. May 24, 2021. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]
Groomed and built around the Judiciary, where judges and lawyers are expected to wear gowns and the colonial-judges’ wig, one would have expected her portrait to be traditional and conservative, and with many protocols.
However, she is different, and maybe this will be her style as she serves in the Judiciary.
Her predecessor, Justice David Maraga, wore the wig, and yesterday her deputy Philomena Mwilu also donned it.
Nation Media Group shines at Annual Journalism Excellence Awards
Wednesday May 05 2021
Online Sub-editor Beatrice Kangai poses for a picture with her Journalist of the Year award during the Annual Journalism Excellence Awards gala in Nairobi on May 4, 2021. PHOTO | LUCY WANJIRU | NMG
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The impact that Covid-19 has had on newsrooms was highlighted at the awards ceremony, with MCK CEO David Omwoyo noting that the real pandemic has been the upcoming of fake news.
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Six Nation Media Group journalists on Tuesday bagged top awards at the Annual Journalism Excellence Awards gala, held by the Media Council of Kenya.
Beatrice Kangai, an online sub-editor, emerged Journalist of the Year for her investigative story, “Smuggled from Nairobi to Johannesburg”.
CJ Nominee Martha Koome was ‘pushed’ to the top, did not shine during JSC interviews, to play ball 2022?
TOXIC POLITICS AND ETHNIC SUSPICIONS BLUR JUSTICE MARTHA KOOME’S WELL-DESERVED NOMINATION AS KENYA’S FIRST FEMALE CHIEF JUSTICE
By Dr Vincent O. Ongore W hen the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) sat last week and the week before under the temporary chairmanship (I d on’t know if chairpersonship or chairwomanship would apply here) of former Kenyatta University Vice Chancellor and member of the JSC, Professor (of Home Science) Olive Mugenda, to search for a replacement to Chief Justice (Retired) Kenani Maraga, in full glare of cameras, Kenyans were glued to their television screens so they could make their independent judgments. After all, Chief Justice is the president of the Judiciary, one of the three pillars of government.
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Lawyers Anita Masaki, Danstan Omar, Shadrack Wambui and Litty Kathurima for defendant Memba Ocharo attend the appeal case hearing virtually yesterday. [Collins Kweyu, Standard]
The fate of 10 candidates seeking to be Chief Justice will be known today as the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) puts up a brave fight to have orders that stopped it from concluding the process lifted.
The commission, in its submission before the Court of Appeal, argued that the order issued by High Court judges Anthony Mrima, Reuben Nyakundi and Wilfrida Okwany was wrong, unjustified and likely to plunge the country into a constitutional crisis.