SPEECH - INDUCTION HIGH NEW JUDGES.pdf - The Judiciary

has brought to bear in the JTI. I know some of you have been great
trainers and will continue to assist. JTI will train magistrates and
paralegals. I know that soon JTI will be asked to help strengthen the
capacity of the embryonic judiciary in South Sudan and soon other
countries in the East African Community will follow suit.
I need say no more. JTI is and will have to be one of the engines for
undertaking fundamental reforms in the judiciary. Its approach must be
multi-disciplinary and I hope we will be able to recruit not only
specialists on stress management but counselors as well!
One final comment on research that is important. I know that research
has been punished rather rewarded in the past. This will never be the
policy of the new judiciary and such work will find itself in the seminars
of JTI. I hope the works of Judges Meoli, Nzioka and Weldon Korir, for
example, can be the subject of brainstorming in JTI.
Vetting of Judges and Magistrates
I urge that we approach the vetting of our colleagues as an institution.
We must make sure that the process is just, impartial and transparent. I
know there are people who see the process as yet another radical
judicial surgery. We must ensure the exercise is concluded as quickly as
possible so that the despondency and anxieties among our colleagues
comes to end and we can get down to the business of administering
justice to our compatriots. We have urged that the Board be well
resourced. We have recommended certain amendments to fast track
the entire process. We must jealously guard the integrity of the
institution of the judiciary.
The next elections pose the real test for the judiciary
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