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One would have expected CJ Martha Koome to be traditional and conservative, and with many protocols.

THE STANDARD EDITORIAL By Editorial | May 25th 2021 Chief Justice Martha Koome after receiving instruments of power from Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu during her assumption of office ceremony held at CJ's Gardens, Supreme Court. May 24, 2021. [Jonah Onyango] Chief Justice Martha Koome received the instruments of power from hitherto acting Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu. These include the Constitution, judiciary flag and two major reports; Chief Justice’s report on the State of the Judiciary as of January 11, 2021 and as of May 24, 2021. Koome succeeds David Maraga who left office in J...

THE STANDARD NATIONAL Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu (left) after handing over instruments of power to new CJ Martha Koome during the assumption of office ceremony held at CJ's Gardens, Supreme Court. May 24, 2021. [Jonah Onyango, Standard] Groomed and built around the Judiciary, where judges and lawyers are expected to wear gowns and the colonial-judges’ wig, one would have expected her portrait to be traditional and conservative, and with many protocols. However, she is different, and maybe this will be her style as she serves in the Judiciary.   Her predecessor, Justice David Mar...

President Kenyatta called on Koome to honour the affirmation she took before assuming the duties of the Chief Justice.

THE STANDARD OPINION High Court judges when they declared the BBI process null and void.[Standard] The decision stopping reggae should not have come as a surprise to any Kenyan who had read that court’s decision on various interlocutory applications preceding the final judgment. From the outset, let me state, without any equivocation, that although I believe the court misdirected itself on a variety of issues, including rewriting the constitutional provisions on the exercise of sovereign power, the judgment was in many respects a well-reasoned and monumental jurisprudential piece that shall...