WHEN Judge Chacha Mwita sounded just a little exasperated at the end of his decision in the case of Laura Lumbasio against the Kenya School of Law, no-one could blame him.
IN this new decision from Kenya, former cabinet secretary for transport and infrastructure, Michael Kamau, had asked the court of appeal to find nine individuals in contempt of court for alleged willful disobedience of a judgment issued in July last year by that same court.
THE arrest and intended prosecution of Kenya’s deputy chief justice, Philomena Mwilu, reflects some of the painful and difficult strands in that country’s legal and political story. On the one hand there is the problem of restoring the reputation of the judiciary after a long period in which corruption on the bench was an acknowledged fact. On the other, the government in Kenya is not known for showing respect to the now-reformed judiciary and its decisions.
