[PSCU,Standard]The High Court has stopped the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) from acting on President Uhuru Kenyatta’s report on the six judicial officers he failed to appoint. “This court prohibits consideration, publication and making public a report by the President to the JSC on the refusal to appoint the six nominees or any other report that is injurious to their integrity as judicial officers,” ruled Makau. Also rejected were the Registrar of the High Court Judith Omange and Chief Magistrate Evans Makori, who had been nominated for the Environment and Lands Court. He had no powers to vet the Court of Appeal nominees since that function had already been performed by the JSC,” says Okello. He cannot purport to do investigations and report back to the JSC with the aim of tainting the image of the six,” he says.

Source: Standard Digital June 16, 2021 21:00 UTC