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    "id": 588834,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "documented in this proposed Bill. The facilitation in terms of enforcement of all the decisions that emanate from the magistrates courts has also been taken care of. If you look at Part IV of this Bill, it is very fundamental. It deals with the general matters. The most important thing I have seen in Part IV is the sitting of the magistrate’s courts. There are procedures in supervision of those courts and how their records are kept. Basically, we have the magistrate’s courts, the High Court, the Court of Appeal and highest court, which is the Supreme Court. Within the reading of the reforms that are to be undertaken in the implementation of the Constitution, each and every segment of the Judiciary must be reformed. Part IV of the Bill deals with the general matters including the sittings of the magistrates court, its own procedures, supervision of that court and the keeping of their digitized records so that Kenyans will never again miss a file at the magistrates court. Finally, that Part repeals the current Magistrates’ Courts Act Cap. 10 which is old, outdated and has borrowed a lot from the Anglo-Saxon legal system. The repeal of Cap.10 of the old Magistrates’ Court Act seeks to make again consequential amendments to the Law of Succession Act Cap. 160 and the Penal Code Cap. 63. Basically, this is a small Bill. I am sure and happy that today is the third day that the House is debating this proposed Bill. That shows the interest that the Members have. Those are the courts that affect the lives of the people that we represent. If we streamline through this Bill the running, the procedure and the record keeping of this lower court--- About 60 per cent of Kenyans go to those courts as compared to the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court or to the High Court. Through this Act, if we streamline the operations and create a reform system within those courts, then I am sure that the benefits of a reformed department within the Judiciary will go back to the people who elected us to this august House. It is a small Bill, about five or six pages, but these six pages are so important to the lives of the people of Kenya in their quest for a reformed and a fair transparent judicial system. With those many remarks, I beg to support."
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