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    "content": "process when a decision is supposed to be made. There should be some reasons and a certain process followed. There is something very innovative about this Bill which I want to highlight just for the record. For example, the traffic department has decided to close Parliament Road on both sides. We have made a provision that where you intend to take a decision that will impact on the public, you are then required under this law to give adequate notice, serve notice and give a reasoned decision to the persons who are affected. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for the longest time possible, persons like the military were not subject to fair administration. They would make decisions, expel people from the military and keep the decisions to themselves. In this Bill, we have amended the previous Act that had exempted the military, to include military action. Where they make a decision, this law will require that the decision be subject to supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court. Under Article 23(2), the Committee and I are drafting a law so that we can have what is called ‘address of fundamental violation of human rights by subordinate courts.’ The current system of justice is that you cannot file a judicial review application in a court other than the High Court. This has created what I call a class of lawyers and judges who are the only ones who can practice the law with regard to the judicial review. This particular law will enable a person in a court in Makindu, Kithimani, somewhere in Machakos or somewhere in Kilifi to go to a magistrate’s court and seek"
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