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    "id": 588708,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njagagua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2336,
        "legal_name": "Charles Muriuki Njagagua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to contribute and support this Bill that is premised on the High Court’s organisation and management. For starters, what we are doing is not new. Those who are legal practitioners will tell you that we have had court registries, registrars, judges of all divisions, namely civil division, criminal division, commercial division and the children’s court. Today, we are re-enforcing the element of the independence of the Judiciary as an arm of Government. We are also making sure that as per our Constitution, each county gets a judge or a High Court. What makes this law beautiful is that the High Court, or the presiding judge, in every county will get a chance, where the need will arise, especially where the county is vast, to create various stations called “circuits”. The presiding judge will provide for circuit judges to visit various sub-counties or the constituencies to dispense justice as quickly as possible. We all know that justice delayed is justice denied. When we have various circuit judges visiting various sub-counties or constituencies, it will mean that justice has been taken closer to the people, dispensed faster and cut down on costs. Take a case of where the High Court is in Nakuru and one has to travel all the way from Kajiado to get to the High Court in Nakuru. That means a lot of money is spent on transporting witnesses, time is lost on the way and this makes courts inaccessible to many Kenyans who do not have the means. The issue of calendar of the court is not something new to those of us who are practitioners. We have recesses in April, August and December. This necessitates a timetable for 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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