The Council of Legal Education (CLE) has dealt candidates a big blow this year. 21% pass rate is crazy. In the next 2-5 years, studying law will be among the 1000 ways to die!
Chief Justice Martha Koome has reiterated the Supreme Court’s commitment to nurturing a new cadre of lawyers grounded in justice, ethics, innovation, and fidelity to the Constitution.
Speaking during the finals of the Supreme Court Moot Court Competition held at the Supreme Court, Nairobi, the CJ affirmed the court’s responsibility to open its doors to the next generation of legal professionals.
She said the competition formed part of the Supreme Court’s broader vision of mentorship and public engagement adding that through the initiative, the court seeks to demystify itself, cultivate young legal minds, and build a bridge between legal education and real-world judicial practice.
CJ Koome explained that this year’s Moot theme; ‘Examining the intersection of Human Rights Law, Administrative Law, Refugee Law and Artificial Intelligence’ aligns with the 14th World Conference of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges, scheduled for next week in Nairobi, is timely, forward-looking, and globally relevant.
“Your engagement with these areas reflects an understanding that the law must constantly evolve to respond to emerging technological, humanitarian, and ethical challenges,” the Chief Justice told the students.
The Competition brought together 16 Law Schools from across the country. Africa Nazarene University emerged the best, the first runners up were Kabarak University while University of Nairobi emerged second runners up.
The moot Court bench comprised of Chief Justice Martha Koome (Presiding), Justice Isaac Lenaola, Justice William Ouko, Justice Katelijne Declerck (Belgium), Justice Catherine Koutsopoulou (Greece) and Justice Maria Torres (Philippines).
This Competition is a flagship component of the Supreme Court of Kenya’s mentorship programme, designed to nurture young legal minds, strengthen advocacy skills, and inspire the next generation of lawyers.
There are people you do not touch! Their spirits are too vicious and Stubborn. Albert Ojwang's is one such. When the three motorbikes carrying six DCI or whatever officers landed at Alberts home, it was clear to them that whatever they were planning to do to Albert would never even reach the local FM radio station.
Albert was a nobody's son. His father, that day may have been found wearing an old faded pair of pants and a torn T-shirt. The entire family seated under trees on stones having ugali and skuma wiki for lunch. No signs of anything valuable caught the sights of those merchants of death. They must have laughed at how audacious this son of a retired quarry worker must have been to poke his nose and dare hold an opinion on how much their boss was taking home on a daily from corruption.
They did not imagine that Alberts father could even afford bus fare instantly to follow his son to Nairobi. They did not know that Alberts dad had the gift of speaking into people's hearts and that his cries would hold the whole country to a standstill .They did not imagine that baba Albert would be fluent in Kiswahili and narrate events leading to the capture and detention of his son fluently and seamlessly in a way that all Kenyans would understand.They thought he'd be the usual old luo man with a literally heavy tongue when it came to speaking kiswahili.
They must be in shock! That the pathologist dared to give a true report on the murder of a poor man's son in total disregard of their script!
There are people you don't touch and if you go ahead and touch them, there will be so much sorrow in your home that fire will never be lit to cook a meal!
#JusticeforAlbertOjwang'
Mwalimu Christine AJERO
Madaraka day reminds us of the sacrifices made by selfless compatriots.Though partial independence, it was a message of hope,a sign that struggles pay off. Pursue and enjoy all forms of freedoms for y'all deserve.The fight for freedom continues with us.
Happy Madaraka day. 🇰🇪