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    "id": 588601,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/588601/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": "Court must be organized and have an administrative structure to be prescribed by Parliament, through this Bill. This Bill particularly deals with the composition and structure of the High Court, its business calendar as well as its decentralisation. How will the High Court take judicial services closer to the people across the country, oversee its administrative functions and manage its performance? How do we resolve a dispute that arises within this court? The Bill provides a dispute resolution mechanism. Hon. Speaker, the High Court is very important to Kenyans. That is why this Bill, in Clause 4, provides for the constitution of the High Court by a Principal Judge with not more than 200 Judges. Even this Bill says that the President of the High Court will be the Principal Judge, and that the maximum number of judges that it will have should be 200. These are the powers given to the Judicial Service Commission to conduct a judicial need assessment and recommend a caseload formula for determining the number of Judges requires. This House still has the power to increase the number of judges of the High Court from 200 to 300. The Bill, in Clause 6, seeks to create the Office of the Presiding Judge of the High Court and provides for his responsibilities, how he is expected relate with the other judges in terms of administration and management of the High Court; his orderly and prompt conduct of the business of the court and how the election of the Principal Judge shall be conducted, pursuant to Article 165(2) of the Constitution. For the first time in the history of Kenya, the Office of the Principal Judge is well stipulated in this Bill. Hon. Speaker, the Bill, in Clause 10l, provides when the High Court should sit and when it shall have recess. This should be made public to Kenyans, litigants and everybody else who uses the High Court. Just like we have the Calendar of Parliament, Kenyans must know that it is their right to know when the High Court will sit and when it will be on recess by looking at the calendar of the Judiciary. Like we have our Parliament Calendar, it is the right of Kenyans to know when the court will sit and when it will be on recess within the calendar of the Judiciary."
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