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vinii
#1 Posted : Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:27:32 AM
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Justice has finally gone digital. This Tele-justice initiative is intended to enhance delivery of quality justice expeditiously....we are told that with virtual courts judges will be talking to cameras and lawyers bowing to screens!!

Since everthing is going digital, we should now go further and allow accused persons to pay bail using M-pesa and even have 'virtual prisons'!!Applause Applause Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly
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muganda
#2 Posted : Thursday, October 14, 2010 12:53:48 PM
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BobCollyMore: Witnessing East Africa's 1st virtual court with a telepresence link between Nairobi & Mombasa facilitated by Safaricom and Cisco

Sasa hii ni nini! These Safaricom guys are beginning to represent the only tech listed company in Kenya (knowing the travails of ACCK).

Imagine if Court of Appeal could hear cases from one location, or High Court judges don't have to travel to hear an injunction!

No no no, I should have bought more at 4.05/=
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mzee safari
#3 Posted : Thursday, October 14, 2010 1:35:10 PM
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This is a step in the right direction.The hassles of having to travel miles away to present your case before judges will be a thing of the past.Equally important will be the time and costs incurred towards preparation for these cases.Technology is proving to be solution provider in so many aspects of life.I hope this time round they will get it right and implement it for good.
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kiriita
#4 Posted : Thursday, October 14, 2010 2:00:55 PM
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Commendable, but I think a more pressing/urgent need is to have stenographers record proceedings - the way the Judges/Magistrates have to handwrite in long hand is just not on!
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mukiha
#5 Posted : Friday, October 15, 2010 8:56:59 AM
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Is this video-court system in use in other countries?

I would have preferred they start with lower courts instead of court of appeal. You know the way you are driving from Migori to Nairobi and a cop gives you a ticket to attend court in Kisii the following morning? Then you'd just go to a video court in Nairobi and answer the charges.... I'd be willing to take that option even for a fee...
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mukiha
#6 Posted : Friday, October 15, 2010 9:01:08 AM
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....and that reminds me; in the 1980s, you'd get such a ticket but have 14 days to admit the Offence.... simply sign the "Guilty" section at the back of the ticket, send it by post to the relevant court....the court would decide the fine and write back by post to advice you of the same....and you'd have another 14 days to pay it at your nearest court house....

@Guka, do you remember those good old days?
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mukiha
#7 Posted : Friday, October 15, 2010 9:04:33 AM
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....but now we are contemplating instant fines for traffic offences; this is how I'd do it:

Example - speeding, instant fine Sh3,000. If the driver rejects it and prefers to go to court, the fine there becomes Sh30,000!! Ten times! Or three months behind bars in default.
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vinii
#8 Posted : Friday, October 15, 2010 9:21:41 AM
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...but guys don't you think the downside of the system is that the judge is in a sense detatched from the witnesses/accused persons and may therefore not be in a position to 'read' the emotional side of the litigants?....
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Cardinal
#9 Posted : Friday, October 15, 2010 9:47:49 AM
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Commendable.Safaricom is quite a company and a half.You can imagine the figure they get from this.
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Elder
#10 Posted : Friday, October 15, 2010 9:54:25 AM
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mukiha wrote:
....and that reminds me; in the 1980s, you'd get such a ticket but have 14 days to admit the Offence.... simply sign the "Guilty" section at the back of the ticket, send it by post to the relevant court....the court would decide the fine and write back by post to advice you of the same....and you'd have another 14 days to pay it at your nearest court house....

@Guka, do you remember those good old days?


I thought it was possible to plead guilty on the ticket and receive your fine by post. Kwani that has changed?
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