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    "id": 599126,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kajuju",
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        "legal_name": "Florence Kajuju",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I am a Member of this Committee. We looked at the various issues affecting our administration of justice especially within the subordinate courts. One issue that has been upheld in the Civil Procedure Code and the Constitution is access to justice. Most of the time, we have been speaking about the geographical jurisdiction of courts without thinking about the pecuniary jurisdiction of the courts. It is important that as much as we are trying to devolve the courts to the counties and the sub-counties, we must ensure that the presiding magistrates in those courts have the capacity to entertain the matters that are placed before them. Litigants do not have to travel long distances and yet the magistrates who are presiding over these courts have the capacity; they have gone to school and are able to preside over the Magistrates’ Courts. I support this amendment."
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