{"id":65114,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/65114/?format=json","text_counter":402,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. M. Kilonzo","speaker_title":"The Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs","speaker":{"id":47,"legal_name":"Mutula Kilonzo","slug":"mutula-kilonzo"},"content":"Again page 214 is very important, because Kenyans appear before the courts with judges. It says:- “A judge must channel anger appropriately no matter what the provocation. The judicial response must be a judicious one. Even if provoked by a lawyer’s rude conduct, the judge must take appropriate steps to control the court room without retaliating. If a reprimand is warranted, it will sometimes be appropriate that it takes place separately from the disposition of the hearing of the matter before the court. It is never appropriate for a judge to interrupt a lawyer repeatedly without justification or be abusive or ridiculing of the lawyer’s conduct or argument. On the other hand, no judge is required to listen without interruption to abuse of the court’s process or arguments manifestly without legal merit, or abuse directed at the judge or other advocates, parties or witnesses”."}