{"id":247943,"date":"2026-10-23T13:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T11:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-high-court-rejects-bid-to-stop-challenge-to-senior-counsel-awards\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T13:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T11:30:24","slug":"kenya-high-court-rejects-bid-to-stop-challenge-to-senior-counsel-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-high-court-rejects-bid-to-stop-challenge-to-senior-counsel-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: High Court Rejects Bid to Stop Challenge to Senior Counsel Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Nairobi \u2014 The High Court has dismissed a preliminary objection seeking to stop a petition challenging the conferment of the rank of Senior Counsel on advocates between 2013 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Justice Gregory Mutai ruled that the petition by Eliud Karanja Matindi raises constitutional questions that require a full hearing, allowing the case to proceed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Matindi is challenging the appointment of all advocates awarded the rank during the four rounds held in 2013, 2020, 2022 and December 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610230304.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The High Court has dismissed a preliminary objection seeking to stop a petition challenging the conferment of the rank of Senior Counsel on advocates between 2013 and 2025. Justice Gregory Mutai ruled that the petition by Eliud Karanja Matindi raises constitutional questions that require a full hearing, allowing the case to proceed. Matindi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":247944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6526,10798,7485,24232,6185,6184,4688,430,257,8440,6468,254,8652],"class_list":["post-247943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-awards","tag-bid","tag-challenge","tag-counsel","tag-court","tag-high","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-rejects","tag-senior","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stop"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}