{"id":8905,"date":"2022-08-30T10:31:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T10:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=8905"},"modified":"2022-08-30T10:31:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T10:31:40","slug":"chief-justice-martha-koome-has-warned-lawyers-in-the-presidential-petition-against-discussing-merits-of-the-cases-outside-the-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=8905","title":{"rendered":"Chief Justice Martha Koome has warned lawyers in the presidential petition against discussing merits of the cases, outside the Supreme Court."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Koome said that lawyers and counsel found engaging in such may be cited for being in violation of the provisions of the law, under section 28 of the Supreme&nbsp;Court Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CJ was speaking on Tuesday morning during the ;pre-trial conference where she outlined the ground rules for parties and advocates in the presidential petition, whose hearing begins Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese are judicial&nbsp;proceedings and therefore discussing the merits of the case by parties and counsel outside the court, is not permitted,\u201d stated CJ Koome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CJ Koome also cautioned parties participating in the petition to maintain decorum, noting that the use of offensive language during proceedings will not be entertained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCourtesy must be observed at all times, and the court will not tolerate offensive language,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"381\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/koome-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/koome-1.webp 381w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/koome-1-300x213.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Koome said that lawyers and counsel found engaging in such may be cited for being in violation of the provisions of the law, under section 28 of the Supreme&nbsp;Court Act. The CJ was speaking on Tuesday morning during the ;pre-trial conference where she outlined the ground rules for parties and advocates in the presidential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/koome.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8909,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905\/revisions\/8909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}