High Court to rule on Supreme Court judges case

Supreme Court judges during the hearing of a presidential petition in Nairobi. [File, Standard]

The High Court in Nairobi will on April 25 decide whether five cases filed by Supreme Court judges against Judicial Service Commission (JSC) over petitions to remove them from office will be sent to the Chief Justice Martha Koome for empanelment of a bench.

After hearing rival arguments on whether the CJ can constitute a bench where she is a party to the case, Justice Lawrence Mugambi on Friday directed that the parties appear before him in the new judiciary calendar for him to rule whether the issues raised are novel, requiring more than one judge to determine.