The High Court has dismissed an application by the Office of Director of Public Prosecution to review documentary evidence in a case where former Nairobi Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko is charged with corruption.
The ODPP had asked the court to revisit a judgment that refused to admit nine Equity Bank account statements and account opening documentation.
The high court found that granting the motion would be a miscarriage of justice and a mockery of the legal process.
Additionally, Justice Nixon Sifuna instructed that the anticorruption case proceed and be completed on time.
The Judge stated that interlocutory revision applications, like interlocutory appeals, are generally disruptive in nature and frequently serve to jam the criminal judicial system as well as prolong cases.
“I am of the polite view that the judiciary needs to develop some screening process for revision application, preferably at the registry level. But even at case management sessions. This will be to weed out improper revision applications such as this one,” he noted.
The court noted that by delaying the conclusion of cases, they end up with a case backlog, thereby undermining the efficient case disposal and dispensation of justice.
