Skip to content
Carmel Rickard writes…
  • Home
  • About
  • Articles
  • Subscribe
  • Contact
Site Search
Uncategorised

Challenging culture of impunity in Kenya

  • 5 March 201924 March 2019
  • by Carmel Rickard

Three former university professors have brought a claim in Kenya’s high court asking for restitution for human rights infringements. They seem to me part of a trend to end the culture of impunity in Kenya. The three had been detained and tortured under a previous government, and now, more than 30 years later, wanted recognition of what had happened, plus compensation for how their lives had been ruined by the unlawful action against them. The professors’ court challenge was not the first in Kenya in which compensation was demanded for human rights abuses under the previous regime and the courts now seem more comfortable about agreeing to hear matters arising from decades ago. Going from previous experience, however, I wonder how long the professors will have to wait for the damages, awarded by the courts, to be paid.

Read more

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
Uncategorised

“Despicable” behaviour outside debating chamber not privileged, judge tells assembly members

  • 25 January 2019
  • by Carmel Rickard

Dressed in a pink suit and looking rather bewildered, Nairobi city county Speaker, Beatrice Elachi, is seen on camera watching as protesting assembly members demonstrate in her office. They wanted her to step down and yelled and shouted at her to achieve their aim. Since that day in September 2018, Elachi has been removed from her position – but the demonstrating assembly members are now under investigation by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission for their behaviour in her office. Indignant at what they saw as an infringement on their right to “privileged” proceedings, the assembly members went to court. But their reception at the high court in Nairobi was not what they had hoped.

Read more

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)

Subscribe to Carmel Rickard writes... via email. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.


Tags

CCMA (3) chief justice (3) Commercial court (2) constitution (5) constitutional and human rights division (3) constitutional court (4) constitutional rights (5) corruption (3) Court of Appeal (4) Covid-19 (6) COVID-19 regulations (3) damages (3) death penalty (5) dismissal (2) Employment law (6) eSwatini (2) Gauteng (3) Ghana (3) high court (23) Judge John Mativo (2) judicial independence (3) judicial review (3) Judicial Service Commission (3) jurisdiction (3) Kenya (15) Law Society of Kenya (3) Lesotho (5) magistrate (5) Malawi (8) Namibia (13) Rwanda (2) SA (4) SA Constitutional Court (2) SADC Tribunal (2) SA Labour Court (2) security forces (4) sentencing (4) South Africa (4) Supreme Court (11) Tanzania (7) torture (4) Uganda (9) UK (2) Zambia (6) Zimbabwe (14)

Recent Posts

  • Preserve your independence, court urges Namibia’s election commission 19 July 2020
  • African Court tells Tanzania: your constitution violates basic rights 16 July 2020
  • Government’s ‘contempt’ raised in challenge to Tanzania’s bail-ban laws 22 May 2020
  • Malawi appeal court judges set new election standards 22 May 2020
  • What orders did the court issue in the case brought by the family of Collins Khosa? 16 May 2020

Archive

Site by Neogek
Theme by Colorlib Powered by WordPress
 Logo Header Menu
  • Home
  • About
  • Articles
  • Subscribe
  • Contact

Subscribe to Carmel Rickard writes... via email. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.