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    "id": 599946,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gichigi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1909,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Kamunye Gichigi",
        "slug": "samuel-kamunye-gichigi"
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I rise to support the amendment on Clause 10. Instead of courts that dispose matters, what we have are courts that create part heard matters in our system. Before I came to Parliament, I handled several cases that were older than me. Most of the witnesses had died and even the judges who had started those matters were also dead, yet the cases continued. This is the law that is going to change administration of justice in this country. I am extremely happy because of this provision. There is no need for a judge to have 100 cases which are part heard and yet, the parties are ready to be heard. Let the judge handle what he has before him, complete then start a new case. Secondly, I am happy that the summer and winter vacations, which seasons we do not even have in this part of the world, are being reduced drastically. Judges should work. Those vacations should have been scrapped. They should go on leave like any other civil servants. We are aware judges do not sit in the afternoon. Therefore, they should write their judgments in the afternoon. They should not wait for vacation to go and write those judgments. I rise to support."
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