On December 11, a five-judge bench ruled that Rawal, Tunoi and High Court judge David Onyancha should retire at 70. The Court of Appeal has ruled that the retirement age of judges is 70 and not 74 as proposed by the DCJ. Rawal and Tunoi wanted to overturn a decision of the High Court that judges should retire at 70 as stipulated in the constitution. The Deputy Chief Justice Kalpana Rawal and suspended Supreme court judge Philip Tunoi hopes for succeeding CJ Willy Mutunga after he retires in June has been quashed by a court. The two argued that they should retire at 74 as per their contract , which they signed under the former constitution.

Source: The Star May 27, 2016 03:57 UTC