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    "id": 588645,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "I have noticed that Clause 11 endeavours to establish divisions of the High Court. There is the family and children’ court, the commercial court, the civil, criminal, constitutional, human rights and judicial review. This clause will require some amendment because, in my view, we are living in very fast changing times and we must be alive to the realities of our times and emerging issues. If you look at what is going on, some of the major litigation issues we have had in recent times involve, for instance, disputes between major international telecommunication companies and disputes involving major companies with a lot of financial muscle in the energy sector. As we establish the divisions of the High Court, it is very important that we again start to have specialised divisions of the High Court. For instance, when we have a dispute, one of the issues we have grappled with in this Parliament since we came is this: Suppose today somebody goes to court to challenge, for example, one of the major telecommunication service providers on the eight parameters of quality of service, do we really have judges in Kenya today with the competence to determine the validity of that argument and its merits so that the litigant that The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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