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Chief Justice Of Kenya
The Chief Justice of Kenya is the head of the Judiciary of Kenya and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya and is an office established under Article 161 of the Kenyan Constitution. The Chief Justice is assisted by the Deputy Chief Justice who is also the Deputy President of the Supreme Court. The current Chief Justice is Martha Koome, the first woman to serve as Chief Justice in Kenya. Appointment and tenure of office Before the enactment of the Constitution of Kenya 2010, the President appointed the Chief Justice without any interview process or parliamentary approval. The Chief Justice did not enjoy security of tenure, and could be dismissed at the pleasure of the President. Under the new Constitution, the Chief Justice is formally appointed by the President but is selected by the Judicial Service Commission following a competitive process involving a vacancy announcement, shortlisting of applicants and interviews. In order to be appointed as the Chief Justice, a pers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judiciary Of Kenya
The Judiciary of Kenya is the system of courts that interprets and applies the law in Kenya. After the promulgation of the constitution of Kenya in 2010, the general public, through parliament, sought to reform the judiciary. Parliament passed the Magistrates and Judges Vetting Act of 2011. A major part of reforming the judiciary was the vetting of Magistrates and Judges in an attempt to weed out unsuitable ones. The Judicature Act has also been amended to raise the minimum number of Magistrates and Judges allowing more judicial officers to be hired. More magistrates and judges are needed to clear the backlog of cases that have caused great delay in the conclusion of cases and to staff new courts. New courts are needed to bring the courts closer to the people which is in line with devolution, a major principle written into the Constitution of 2010. New courts like the High Court opened in Garissa in November 2014 is a good example. In the past residents of North Eastern Kenya had t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Harry Barclay Nihill
Sir John Harry Barclay Nihill, (27 July 1892 – December 1975) was a British lawyer and administrator who served throughout the British Empire. Biography He was born in Hastings, Sussex in 1892. He was educated at Felsted School and read history at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was president of Cambridge Union.The Nairobi Law Monthly, Kaibi Limited, 1987 He thereafter studied law and was called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 1914. He immediately thereafter enlisted in the military, and served in the British Army during the First World War. His civilian career began in 1919 as an Investigating Officer in the Industrial Council's Division of the Ministry of Labour. Between 1920 and 1921 he was Private Secretary to Sir William Edge, but left to enter the Colonial Service and serve as a Cadet in Hong Kong.Great Britain. Colonial Office, The Colonial Administrative Service List, H. M. Stationery Office, 1934 He was appointed to the post of Police Magistrate in Kowloon in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chunilal Madan
Chunilal Bhagwandas Madan QC (born Chunilal Bhagwandas Bhusri; 11 November 1912 – 22 September 1989) was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Kenya. He served between 1985–1986 and was succeeded by Justice Cecil Henry Ethelwood Miller. Biography Madan was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1912. He studied at the Government Indian School before moving to London and enrolling at the Middle Temple. He was called to the Bar in London in 1935 and on his return to Kenya he was admitted as an Advocate of the High Court in 1936. He adopted the surname Madan in lieu of Bhusri in 1937. He was elected to the Nairobi Town Council between 1937 and 1948 and the Legislative Council between 1948 and 1961. In 1955, Madan was made Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry for Commerce and Industry and the following year he became Asian Minister without portfolio. He was elected Chair of the Law Society of Kenya first in 1957 and again in 1960. In 1957, he was made Queen's Counsel. He was app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Arap Moi
Daniel Toroitich arap Moi ( ; 2 September 1924 – 4 February 2020) was a Kenyan politician who served as the second president of Kenya from 1978 to 2002. He was the country's longest-serving president. Moi previously served as the third vice president of Kenya from 1967 to 1978 under President Jomo Kenyatta, becoming president following the latter's death. Born into the Tugen sub-group of the Kalenjin people in the Kenyan Rift Valley, Moi studied as a boy at the Africa Inland Mission school before training as a teacher at the Tambach teachers training college, working in that profession until 1955. He then entered politics and was elected a member of the Legislative Council for Rift Valley. As independence approached, Moi joined the Kenyan delegation which travelled to London for the Lancaster House Conferences, where the country's first post-independence constitution was drafted. In 1960 he founded the Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU) as a rival party to Kenyatta's K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Henry Simpson
Sir Alfred Henry Simpson (29 October 1914 – 22 September 2003) was a British lawyer and a former Chief Justice of Kenya. Biography Simpson was born in Dundee, Scotland and educated at the University of St Andrews and University of Edinburgh. He was admitted as a solicitor in Scotland in 1938. During the Second World War he served with the Royal Army Service Corps and achieved the rank of Major. At the end of the war he served as Legal Secretary for the British Military Administration in Cyrenaica, and later Crown Counsel to Singapore between 1949 and 1956. He thereafter moved to the Gold Coast where he served as a High Court Judge between 1956–61 and Malaysia between 1961 and 1967 from where he moved to Kenya in 1967.The Nairobi Law Monthly, Kaibi Limited, 1989, p.150 In 1982, President Daniel Arap Moi appointed him Chief Justice of Kenya as successor to Sir James Wicks, a post he held until his retirement in 1985. He was knighted in the Queen's 1985 Birthday Honours. He di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Wicks
Sir James Haywood Wicks (20 June 1901 – 1 July 1989) was a British lawyer and to-date the longest serving Chief Justice of Kenya. Biography Wicks was born at Colnbrook, Middlesex in 1901. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, King's College London, and Christ Church, Oxford. On graduation he qualified as a Chartered Surveyor and began practising in Guildford and London. He thereafter read law, and was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1939. Following the outbreak of the Second World War he volunteered to serve in the Royal Air Force, achieving the rank of Squadron Leader and being mentioned in dispatches thrice. After the war, he resumed his legal career, first serving as Crown Counsel in Mandatory Palestine between 1946-47. Thereafter he moved to Hong Kong serving as a Magistrate between 1948–53 and a District Judge between 1954 and 58. In 1958, upon his promotion to a Puisne Judge he moved to Kenya. In 1971, he was appointed Chief Justice of Kenya by Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kitili Maluki Mwendwa
Kitili Maluki Mwendwa is a former Chief Justice of Kenya. He served between 1968–1971 and was succeeded by Sir James Wicks. Mwendwa, who was from Kitui, was the first African to become Chief Justice of Kenya. His brother, Ngala Mwendwa, served as Kenya's first Minister of Labour from 1963 to 1974. See also * Court of Appeal of Kenya The Court of Appeal of Kenya is established under Article 164 of the constitution of Kenya and consists of a number of judges, being not fewer than twelve. The court handles appeals arising over the decisions of the High Court of Kenya, the ... * High Court of Kenya References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 20th-century Kenyan judges Chief justices of Kenya People from Kitui County {{Kenya-law-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jomo Kenyatta
Jomo Kenyatta (22 August 1978) was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978. He was the country's first indigenous head of government and played a significant role in the transformation of Kenya from a colony of the British Empire into an independent republic. Ideologically an African nationalist and conservative, he led the Kenya African National Union (KANU) party from 1961 until his death. Kenyatta was born to Kikuyu farmers in Kiambu, British East Africa. Educated at a mission school, he worked in various jobs before becoming politically engaged through the Kikuyu Central Association. In 1929, he travelled to London to lobby for Kikuyu land affairs. During the 1930s, he studied at Moscow's Communist University of the Toilers of the East, University College London, and the London School of Economics. In 1938, he published an anthropological study ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm MacDonald
Malcolm Ian Macdonald (born 7 January 1950) is an English former professional footballer, manager and media figure. Nicknamed 'Supermac', Macdonald was a quick, powerfully built prolific goalscorer. He played for Fulham, Luton Town, Newcastle United, Arsenal and England. Macdonald is Newcastle United's fifth highest goalscorer of all time. He also won England's Golden Boot with Newcastle in 1975 and with Arsenal in 1977. Club career Early years and Fulham Born in Finlay Street, Fulham, a stone's throw from Craven Cottage, Macdonald attended the same school (Sloane Grammar school on Hortensia Rd in Chelsea) as former Genesis and GTR guitarist Steve Hackett. Macdonald started his career as a full back before switching to centre forward. He started his career at Barnet. After playing for non-league side Tonbridge, his schoolboy hero Bobby Robson paid £1,000 to sign him for Fulham in 1968 just after their relegation from the Football League First Division. Luton Town A year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ainley
Sir Alfred John Ainley, (10 May 1906 – 19 January 1992) was a British colonial judge, who served as Chief Justice of the Eastern Region of Nigeria, of Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei, and of Kenya. Biography He was born in England and educated at St Bees School, Cumbria and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He became a Magistrate in the Gold Coast in 1935. During the second World War he served as a lieutenant in the Gold Coast Regiment, active in the African theatre, and was awarded the Military Cross in 1941 for leading his platoon under fire in an attack against an enemy armoured vehicle. He personally threw grenades at it eventually forcing its capture. After the war he was appointed a Puisne Judge in Uganda (1945 to 1955), before spending a term as Chief Justice of the Eastern Region of Nigeria. He was knighted for his services in 1957. In 1959 he was appointed Chief Justice of the United Judiciary of Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei but then transferred back to Africa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Ormiston Sinclair
Sir Ronald Ormiston Sinclair, KBE, (2 May 1903 – 18 November 1996) was a New Zealand lawyer and judge who served in the British Colonial Service. Biography Sinclair was born in 1903. Sources differ whether the place of birth was Auckland or Dunedin. His father was the Reverend William Sinclair, who had emigrated to New Zealand from Britain in 1855. His mother was Rosa Elizabeth Nicolls (). Sinclair was educated at Elmwood and Gloucester Street primary schools in Christchurch, followed by Christchurch Boys' High School. He continued his secondary education at New Plymouth Boys' High School. He received his tertiary education at the University of Auckland before moving to Britain to study at Balliol College, Oxford.East Africa and Rhodesia, volume=34, Africana., 1957 On graduation, he returned to New Zealand and was called to the New Zealand Bar in 1924. He entered the Colonial Service in 1931 and worked as a Magistrate in Nigeria until 1938.Who's who of Rhodesia, Mauritius, Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick Of Glendale
Evelyn may refer to: Places * Evelyn, London *Evelyn Gardens, a garden square in London * Evelyn, Ontario, Canada * Evelyn, Michigan, United States * Evelyn, Texas, United States * Evelyn, Wirt County, West Virginia, United States * Evelyn (VTA), former light rail train station in Mountain View, California, United States * Evelyn County, New South Wales, Australia * Electoral district of Evelyn, an electoral district in Victoria, Australia * Evelyn, Queensland, Australia * 503 Evelyn, a main belt asteroid Schools * Evelyn College for Women, or Evelyn College, the former women's college of Princeton University * Evelyn High School, in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Entertainment * ''Evelyn'' (2002 film), a film starring Sophie Vavasseur and Pierce Brosnan * ''Evelyn'' (2018 film), a documentary * '' Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl'', 2002 short film and black comedy directed by Brad Peyton * ''Evelyn'' (play), a 1969 radio play by Rhys Adrian * ''Evelyn'' (EP), an EP by The M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
