Judiciary must safeguard its credibility and inspire confidence

There is palpable uncertainty hovering above Kenya’s justice system. Friday’s ruling of the Court of Appeal that all judges should retire at age 70, threw the Judiciary into a spin.

Justices Kalpana Rawal and Philip Tunoi had challenged their retirement age, arguing they were hired as judges under the old Constitution, which envisaged that judges should retire at age 74. But the new Constitution stipulates that judges should retire at 70, a position affirmed to apply to all judges by the Court of Appeal on Friday.