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Budget cuts: Treasury slashed Judiciary’s budget by Sh3 billion

More than 15,000 cases were suspended yesterday after dozens of courts around the country shut down over crippling budget cuts.

Of these, 10,000 are pending cases in tribunals. They include those on rent restrictions, business premises and cooperatives. Also affected are 5,598 cases in mobile courts around the country. Significantly, all benches constituted to hear cases (often comprising three to five judges) are not sitting, according to our sources who could not be named because they are not authorised to speak to the media on the matter.

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