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    "id": 706542,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/706542/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Clause 6 says that every subordinate court shall have power to punish for contempt of court on the face of the court in any case where a person assaults, threatens or intimidates. Assaulting is very clear because we even have a law that talks about assault or threatening but what is ―intimidate‖? If I go to court and sit at the back and, maybe, I glare at you without blinking, I could be intimidating. So, what is contempt? Some of us who have been in civil society are very good at that. I will just go and sit right in front of the judge if I think you are going to make a decision which is inimical to my right as a woman and we just sit the four of us. I remember one time when I was in the Coalition on Violence Against Women. We went to court wearing T-shirts and we just looked at the judge. The judge told us that we were intimidating him. If such a thing happened, would we be declared to be in contempt of the court? So, such provisions should not be in the law."
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