The LSK President @NelsonHavi and Council will address the press today at 5pm on two issues : refusal by the President to appoint the Judges and disobedience of Court Order. The press is invited.
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The LSK is Kenya's premier Bar association. It has the mandate to advise and assist Advocates, the government and the public in the administration of justice.
- Executive Order No 1 of 2020 is unconstitutional in so far as it purports to place the Judiciary, commissions and other independent offices under the Executive. Unless the Executive Order is rescinded within 7 days the LSK will challenge it in Court @NelsonHavi
- It has become the order of the day for govt to disobey court orders in a manner to suggest the Constitution is an inconvenience to them- @NelsonHavi pres, LSK in a press briefing on the President of the Republic of Kenya's refusal to appoint Judges & disobedience of court orders.
- Press briefing on the removal of the Attorney General and Solicitor General from the membership of the LSK and the State of the Judiciary.
- President Uhuru Kenyatta acted with impunity in conferring rank of Senior Counsel on the 24 Advocates. The dispute on their recommendation for conferment is still pending in Court. We will abide by the outcome of the mediation that ensured therefrom whose report is expected soon.
- Notice of motion by the @lawsocietykenya Council on the expulsion of Mr. Paul Kihara Kariuki, Attorney General and Mr. Kennedy Nyabuti Ogeto, Solicitor General from membership of the Law Society of Kenya.
- The brutal force used on the suspect was not only unreasonable but was outrightly degrading and inhuman treatment- @NelsonHavi President LSK in a letter to the @IG_NPS on Police brutality in Nakuru Central Police Station; Mark Cladie Oreyo.
- The Council of the @lawsocietykenya will hold a press briefing today, 12th Friday at 12.30pm at the LSK Secretariat Grounds on the Removal of the Attorney General and the Solicitor General from membership of LSK and State of the Judiciary. The Press is invited.
- "We are prepared to pay the ultimate price to protect .... the rule of law" Chief Justice @dkmaraga
- After careful consideration... and in the absence of a statutory instrument establishing @NMS_Kenya we have made the conclusion that @NMS_Kenya is not a body established or recognized in law and, by extension, neither is the Liaison Committee sort to be constituted...
- We find the harrasment of our members in full glare of police officers extremely retrogressive, besides being an affront to the state obligation towards ensuring free & unhindered access to justice through access of legal services of their choice (Art. 50, 2,(g))- @NelsonHavi ...
