William Kipkiror

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, the House notes the Annual Reports on the State of the Judiciary for Financial Years 2016/2017 and 2017/2018, submitted to the House, pursuant to the provisions of Article 254(1) of the Constitution and adopts the recommendations of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs as contained in the Reports of the Committee, laid on the Table of the House on Thursday, 9th May 2019. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Annual State of the Judiciary and Administration of Justice Report is prepared pursuant to Section 5(2)(b) of the Judicial ... view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: The two reports for 2016/ 2017 and 2017/2018 were considered by the Committee concurrently, in order to save time, resources and avoid duplication of efforts. As I move this The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Motion, I will capture what is contained in the two reports in summary, so that Members can contribute more. We have tabled the reports before the House which are already in the Table Office. I believe Members had the time to secure copies and understand the entire reports because they are very exhaustive with a number of chapters. view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: In summary, the two reports indicate the progress made by the Judiciary in its transformation agenda as part of the ongoing implementation of our new Constitution of Kenya, 2010. It also records the achievements and the challenges experienced by the Judiciary in the Financial Years 2016/2017 and 2017/2018. In the Financial Year 2016/2017, the Judiciary witnessed leadership transition. We had a new Chief Justice and a new Deputy Chief Justice in 2016/2017. The same year witnessed the launch of the strategic blueprint of the Judiciary entitled: view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Again, that is a very important point to note because this is also the time when the Judiciary launched a strategic blueprint that would guide its operations in terms of the transformation agenda that was to begin the implementation of our new Constitution. The new blueprint strategy shifted focus away from the institutional capacity building approach to service delivery. Over the years, the focus in the Judiciary has been in doing a lot of institutional capacity building, but the new approach was on service delivery. Again, it is important for Members to note that point. The new strategy is anchored ... view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: The Financial Year 2016/2017 Report has seven chapters while the Financial year 2017/2018 Report has 10 chapters. Since Members will have a chance to refer to the reports, the chapters contained in both reports are the following: 1. Leadership and Management. 2. Access to Justice in the Courts. 3. Access to Justice in the Tribunals. 4. Jurisprudence. 5. Human Resource Management and Development. 6. Finance. 7. Infrastructure. 8. State of the Agencies and Corporations in the Judicial Sector. All these are covered in the two reports. However, there are two areas that are not captured in the Financial Year 2016/2017 ... view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Constitution ensures and guarantees that every Kenyan should have access to justice. Justice delayed is justice denied. Therefore, in fulfillment of this constitutional mandate to dispense justice, the Judiciary has put in place an elaborate policy, legal and administrative framework to facilitate access to justice. I want to inform the House about something that will shock us all. In the Financial Year 2016/2017, 344,180 cases were filed, out which, 304,182 cases were concluded. This translates to an overall efficiency of 88 per cent. Just do a comparison of the two years, in 2017/2018, 402,243 cases were filed, out of which ... view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: litigants file cases, but do not pursue them. What the Judiciary has done is to dismiss some of the cases to reduce the backlog and proceed with cases where parties in the suits are ready and willing to proceed. Another observation is that whereas mobile courts were necessary in reduction of the backlog of cases, inadequate funding of other Government agencies like the Office of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) hampered their operations thereby making achievements of desired results difficult. The Judiciary has embraced alternative dispute resolution mechanisms and relies on out of court settlement. That has helped in ... view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: In the Financial Year 2015/2016, the Judiciary requested for Kshs26 billion, but was allocated Kshs14 billion, a shortfall of Kshs12 billion. The following 2016/2017 Financial Year, they requested for Kshs23 billion, but were given Kshs17 billion, a shortfall of Kshs7 billion. In the 2017/2018 Financial Year, they requested for Kshs32 billion, but were given Kshs14 billion, a shortfall of Kshs18 billion. In the 2018/2019 Financial Year, they requested for Kshs23 billion, but were given Kshs15 billion, with a balance of Kshs13 billion. Finally, in the 2019/2020 Financial Year, this particular year, they requested for Kshs38 billion, but were given Kshs19 ... view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: We have Kabarnet, Marsabit, Amagoro, Githongo, Kandara, Machakos, Kiambu, Mbita, Embu, Murang’a, Eldoret, Garsen and Othaya. The list is long. The law courts are at some stage of completion. We are unable to move because there is no money. These are some of the challenges that I wanted to bring out clearly for the House to understand. In compliance with Article 173, we are trying to look for solutions. How do we resolve the issue of underfunding the Judiciary because every year, we have this problem? This is a very important issue that we need to raise. We propose that ... view