The law society of Kenya Nakuru Branch is solely to blame for the backlog of cases in the county, a Court of Appeal judge has said.
Speaking while presiding over a civil application in Nakuru law courts on Wednesday, Court of Appeal judge Justice Philip Waki accused the society of delaying cases and being inconsiderate to their clients.
"It is ridiculous that we have appeal cases dating as far back as 10 years and yet nothing has been done about them. What is the LSK doing if proceedings alone take years to be typed?" he asked.
He added that the country was currently in a new constitutional dispensation adding delays in administering justice should be a thing of the past.
"We now have systems in the Judiciary that will unclog all the blockages as far as dispensing justice is concerned. We should take advantage of that. This is not the old Judiciary," he said while addressing an advocate Mr Daniel Kisila.
The application had been filed by Mr Patrick Wambugu Gitahi who wanted the three-bench appellate judges of Justice Waki, Roselyne Nambuye and Patrick Kiage to overrule an appeal byKenya Power in which a High Court in Nakuru had compelled it to pay damages to the applicant.
Gitahi had lost his garage in 2005 after an electric fault and sued the power company for negligence. He was consequently awarded Sh500,000 in damages by the High Court in February 2010.
However, the power company failed to honour the directive and instead appealed against the ruling. A ruling will be made on November 12.