Go home, Court of Appeal tells judges Phillip Tunoi and Kaplana Rawal

Court of Appeal Judges (Right to Left) Prof. Otieno Odek, Patrick Kiage, GB Kariuki, William Oruko and Jamila Mohammed. PHOTO: FILE

NAIROBI: The Court of Appeal on Friday ended Deputy Chief Justice Kaplana Rawal and Judge Phillip Tunoi's long stint at the Judiciary after ruling they ought to retire at 70 and not 74 years as they had argued.

The two judges suffered a major blow because they were the two senior-most judges in the Judiciary, and therefore they had a leg-up in heading the Judiciary temporarily when the Chief Justice Willy Mutunga retires. The senior-most judge heads the Judiciary until a substantive Chief Justice is appointed.