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    "id": 588844,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2511,
        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for allowing me to get a chance to contribute to this Bill. Firstly, the geographic nature that is implied by the Bill in which the courts would move closer to the people is not only going to make it cheaper and easier for people to access the courts, but it is going to help us to deal with what I think, as a non-lawyer, has been a perennial problem of running parallel systems, some of which we call traditional and others that we call modern law. Increasingly, the modern law has begun to chip away from the way, for example, disputes were settled. This expansion in access to the courts will bring things under the same umbrella and consideration across different geographic areas. I certainly find that increasingly, the traditional systems that were in place, which in many ways are fraying on the margin, are doing so because people who are upholding the systems are no longer brought up within the same traditional norms. Therefore, access to courts will help to bring the systems of justice, restitution and other avenues that are being sought much closer to the people. There is this grading of cases of matters civil and monetary terms that go into the law. I had thought that this would have simply been a case in which the Chief Justice sets this, so they can be modified from time to time. If we get, for example, a huge drop in the value of the Shilling, what seems to be a big figure for example like Kshs7 million, would become a piece of change. I would have thought that the powers of modification have been given to the Chief Justice. Even the powers of determining this limit, in the first place, need not be in my view, inside the law. This ought to be handled either administratively or in any other regulation; something on the side, that is not embedded in law, which should require amendments to come to us. 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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