James Orengo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 691 to 700 of 4273.

• 16 Dec 2020 in Senate: I think that asking Members to relocate is also very difficult while you are sitting on the Chair and the Mace is where it is. This means that we are formally in session. I suggest that we have a break of five or The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 16 Dec 2020 in Senate: 10 minutes and hon. Senators be allowed in, in strict compliance with the regulations. Even the example we are sending out to the country is not proper. view
• 16 Dec 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, you have laid out how we are going to deal with this case. The trial will not start until the opening statements have been made. If we now go into the issue of witnesses--- He is making an application, and I think we are not there yet. We should finish with the opening statements and then move forward. view
• 16 Dec 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am standing up because of what I had raised earlier. For the case of the County Assembly, they have hardly one hour and they have got two witnesses. Mr. Kinyanjui, the way I look at the evidence which is on record, probably he needs another two hours to cross-examine. view
• 16 Dec 2020 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 16 Dec 2020 in Senate: The problem is that we did not have a pretrial process, so that there are agreed documents. For Mr. Kinyanjui, may I suggest that if you find at the tail-end he has not dealt with the substantial issues and take all his time on procedural issues. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in a trial of this nature, I wanted to propose to you that even the Evidence Act does not apply. The Evidence Act clearly states where that statute applies. Even in quasi-judicial proceedings, like the commissions of inquiry, you will find most of the time, they state clearly that the Evidence ... view
• 16 Dec 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think our law and the Constitution has been built out on experience. In the United Kingdom, view
• 16 Dec 2020 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 16 Dec 2020 in Senate: impeachment became very unpopular. There was a governor of Bengal in India who was impeached in parliament for seven years. The two parliaments had to sit through an impeachment process for seven years. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the United States of America, impeachment took a similar direction because they preferred the Plenary as we have now. However, out of practice, they have recognized that in order to do justice they do it through committees because Counsel would want to ask a lot of questions and then report to the House although the rules demand that they do it through Plenary. ... view
• 16 Dec 2020 in Senate: This is a question of case management. These are very senior lawyers who now have a case before the Court of Appeal. They have given us direction that we are not going to hear you. They are given a written submission of 15 pages and we are not being allowed to address the court because of case management. We cannot be rumbling and saying that we are a court. I do not think we look like a court anymore because of the interventions we are making. It is very difficult to refrain from showing where your interests lie that is ... view