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THE STANDARD NAIROBI Acting Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu. [File, Standard] The High Court on Wednesday, April 21 temporarily stopped the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) from selecting a successful candidate from the ten legal experts who are interested in the Chief Justice post. A three-judge bench comprising Antony Mrima, Hellen Onkwani and Reuben Nyakundi gave the directive after four petitioners sought a stop order, arguing all the candidates for CJ position had not met minimum legal requirements for consideration. So far, the JSC has conducted eight out of ten CJ interviews. The cour...

THE STANDARD NAIROBI For Professor of Law Patricia Kameri Mbote, dealing with academic malpractices is part of her work at the University of Nairobi (UoN) where she teaches law. But yesterday, she was on trial, accused by her colleague, Prof Migai Akech, and three of her former students, who were at one point her research assistants, of academic malpractices. Appearing before the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), she was put to task on why she left Prof Akech out of a concept paper he had authored when she used it to get funds from Ford Foundation. Her response was that she used the Ford Fo...