Supreme Court of Kenya

How was your Easter Season?

Shout out to everyone who took their time to reflect on their relationship with God.

Let's come back from Easter stronger than ever.

Happy New Year from The SCOK🥳🥳

Today the CJ Her Ladyship Martha Koome officially launch the inaugural Supreme Court of Kenya Moot Court Competition. The inaugural Supreme Court moot court competition is an integral part of the commemoration of the 12th anniversary of the Supreme Court of Kenya which attracted participants from 16 Universities.

Since the year 2011, the Supreme Court has been pivotal in cementing the supremacy of the Constitution and sovereignty of the people of Kenya. In doing so, the court has developed rich jurisprudence which has settled legal issues and offered guidance to other superior and subordinate courts.

The competition is an important opportunity for participants and law schools to reflect on the rich jurisprudence that the Supreme Court has developed in the last decade. Participation in this competition also provides law students a unique opportunity to deepen their understanding of the Supreme Court’s rich jurisprudence.

This competition is an excellent platform for students to be mentored by Judges and other legal members of the Supreme Court. Every year, I admit many young lawyers to the bar. For example, this November, I will be admitting 821 Advocates to the bar. This brings the total of lawyers that I have admitted to the bar this year, to more than 2000.

On Tuesday, the three bench judge appointed by the CJ will give final verdict on the current situation of politics.
The judgement will be fair for everyone.

The court this morning ruled that Okiya Omtata's appeal lacked merit hence the Finance Bill 2023 is here to stay.
Thank you

Majamaa mnaonaje hiyo game ya Arsenal, watatoboa kweli🤣

Eid Mubarak to all Muslims.

What's your take on LGBTQ?

We will deliver justice ...stay put

We have adjourned upto 2pm

Fred Ngatia: The Petitions are too many, as a team we have been overwhelmed. Give us more time.

Prof Tom Ojianda: If you think that you have been overwhelmed! Concede defeat.

Koome & SCOK judges: (😂😂😂😂😂)

Touching issues we will liberate on

Pre-trial conference

Today we are hosting a pretrial.
We welcome all

After a week-long exercise of filling applications and responses at the Supreme Court sub-registry at the Milimani Law Courts, the Apex Court has one more week left to determine the ruling on the presidential election petition.

On Monday August 29, the court will respond to Interlocutory applications which must be done within a day before heading to Tuesday where a Pre-Trial conference begins.

A Pre-Trial conference is always held on the 8th day after a petition is filed. The registrar issues all the parties in the case with a notice on the Pre-Trail conference entailing the venue and the date the session shall be held.

Here is what follows during the Pre-Trial conference.

The court will frame both the contested and the uncontested matters in the petition.
It will then consider the consolidation of Petitions in the cases where more than one petition is filed.
The court will also determine the number of advocates that the court will hear on behalf of each party.
Allocate time for each party to address the Court.
Give directions specifying the place and time of the main hearing of the petition.
Any other orders that may be necessary to ensure a fair determination of the petition shall also be addressed by the court.

Justice will be served by our judges- CJ Koome

We will be guided by this when making judgement
Article 80(4)

We are glad to inform the public that we will receive Azimio's petition tomorrow before 2pm