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    "id": 618955,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "We must accept that it was a mistake to allow practising lawyers to sit in the JSC. This House must propose an amendment so that the moment you become a member of JSC, you suspend representation of clients in court. You cannot have your cake and eat it. You are the employer and yet, you are coming before your employees for judgement. The fellows who are practising advocates and members of the JSC can hardly think of any cases they have taken before a judge and lost. How are they supposed to lose anyway? If the judge gives him the wrong judgement, he is putting his promotion on the line. I argued as a layman in matters of law. Later on, I appeared before the late Hon. Mutula Kilonzo because he was one of the people who opposed my amendment. When he saw what was unravelling at the JSC and how those advocates who had been nominated by the Law Society of Kenya were riding rough over everybody in the JSC, he agreed with me that even though I am not a lawyer, I saw what he ought to have seen. So, this House must propose an amendment. It is either you sit in the JSC or if you want to appear in court, you have to quit your position as an advocate sitting in the JSC. With those remarks, I now go to the recommendations."
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