The high court is this morning expected to issue directions in a case in which Senior Counsel Ahmednasir Abdulahi's law firm sued Chief Justice Martha Koome over an indefinite ban.
The last time the matter was in court, the Judge was informed that the issue was still pending determination at the Court of Appeal. This is after the Supreme Court appealed against a decision by Mwita who said he has jurisdiction over the matter.
They are today expected to appraise the court on how far the matter has reached before the appellate court.
In the case, the firm through advocate Issa Mansur says the decision taken by the seven supreme judges to ban him from appearing before them was not an outcome of a judicial process but rather an administrative decision of the judges of the apex court.
He has argued that if the statements made by his client were defamatory, the supreme judges were at liberty to institute legal proceedings against him.
The Supreme Court communicated its decision to ban the senior counsel through a letter signed by Registrar L.M. Wachira in January this year.
The letter said the counsel and his law firm should not appear before it over what the court termed as years of consistent distasteful remarks made against the institution and its judges on various media platforms.
"In view of the foregoing, it is the decision of this court that henceforth and from the date of this communication, you shall have no audience before the court, either by yourself, through an employee of your law firm or any other person holding brief for you," the statement read in part.
There are several cases pending at the high court over the imposed ban. Among them is the one filed by the Law Society of Kenya against the Supreme Court and its judges.
This matter has since been suspended pending the determination of an application by the Court of Appeal.
The appellate court suspended the proceedings filed by LSK before the High Court as they determined the issue of lack of jurisdiction raised by the Supreme Judges.
