{"id":5593,"date":"2020-04-06T13:32:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=5593"},"modified":"2020-04-06T13:32:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:32:29","slug":"judiciary-recalls-judges-and-support-staff-amid-virus-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/judiciary-recalls-judges-and-support-staff-amid-virus-crisis","title":{"rendered":"Judiciary recalls judges and support staff amid virus crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> The Judiciary has recalled some of its employees even as the government stepped up battle to prevent the spread of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Those recalled include judges, secretaries, clerks in registries and drivers, according to an April 1 memo by High Court Registrar Judith Omange.\u00a0The secretaries are to type proceedings to be allocated to them by the deputy registrars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTyping of proceedings can safely be carried out by officers working in their offices subject to facilitation of transport and protective gear. Kindly distribute pending typing work to all office administrators in your divisions and stations,\u201d reads part of the memo.<\/p>\n<p>President Uhuru Kenyatta on March 15 directed government offices, businesses and companies to allow employees to work from home with the exception of those working in critical or essential services.<\/p>\n<p>However, in consultation with the Judiciary\u2019s Information Communication Technology department, Ms Omange stated that at least one laptop will be made available to each station or division to facilitate typing at home on rotational basis.<\/p>\n<p>The officers are expected to indicate the number of pages typed by each court during this period, a figure that will form part of the Judiciary\u2019s weekly report.Judiciary Registrar Anne Amadi told\u00a0The Standard\u00a0that despite scaling down their operations, court operations are going on countrywide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we have repeatedly said, court operations continue, mostly from home. Typing of proceedings\/rulings\/judgements is part of those operations,\u201d she said. The number of coronavirus cases in Kenya increased to 142 after 16 people tested positive yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Kenya: The Judiciary has recalled some of its employees even as the government stepped up battle to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Those recalled include judges, secretaries, clerks in registries and drivers, according to an April 1 memo by High Court Registrar Judith Omange.\u00a0The secretaries are to type proceedings to be allocated to them by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2111,8,12],"tags":[939,1539,434],"class_list":["post-5593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-coronavirus-in-kenya","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-judiciary"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Judiciary recalls judges and support staff amid virus crisis - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Judiciary has recalled some of its employees even as the government stepped up battle to prevent the spread of Covid-19.Those recalled\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/judiciary-recalls-judges-and-support-staff-amid-virus-crisis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Judiciary recalls judges and support staff amid virus crisis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Judiciary has recalled some of its employees even as the government stepped up battle to prevent the spread of Covid-19.Those recalled\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/judiciary-recalls-judges-and-support-staff-amid-virus-crisis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-06T13:32:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-04-06T13:32:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/04\/jevtazcre6u2wn7ra5e8a2872b337c.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/judiciary-recalls-judges-and-support-staff-amid-virus-crisis#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/judiciary-recalls-judges-and-support-staff-amid-virus-crisis\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Judiciary recalls judges and support staff amid virus crisis\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-04-06T13:32:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-04-06T13:32:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/judiciary-recalls-judges-and-support-staff-amid-virus-crisis\"},\"wordCount\":258,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/judiciary-recalls-judges-and-support-staff-amid-virus-crisis#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/04\/jevtazcre6u2wn7ra5e8a2872b337c.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Coronavirus\",\"COVID-19\",\"Judiciary\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Coronavirus in kenya\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/judiciary-recalls-judges-and-support-staff-amid-virus-crisis#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/judiciary-recalls-judges-and-support-staff-amid-virus-crisis\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/judiciary-recalls-judges-and-support-staff-amid-virus-crisis\",\"name\":\"Judiciary recalls judges and support staff amid virus crisis - 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