The high court is this morning expected to issue directions in a case in which Senior Counsel Ahmednasir Abdullahi's law firm sued Chief Justice Martha Koome over an indefinite ban.
The matter has been listed before Justice Chacha Mwita.
The firm through advocate Issas Mansour 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 argued that if the statements made by his client are 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 2024.
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.
Several cases are 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 early this month suspended the proceedings filed by LSK before the High Court as they determined the issue of lack of jurisdiction raised by the Supreme Judges.
Separately, three proprietors of a company that sources food stuff for distribution to hunger-stricken areas will return to court today for the mention of a case in which they were charged with fraud.
Seth Orinda, Leon Otieno and Richard Maina Mwaniki were charged with defrauding two suppliers of cooking oil valued at Sh33 million.
The three were accused of conspiring to defraud Hussein Adow Mohammed and Rajula Adimo from whom they allegedly obtained 6,020 litres of cooking oil on diverse dates between November 15 and December 23, 2022.
The accused also faced fraud and money laundering charges. They all denied the charges and were released on various bond and bail terms.
When they were charged, the prosecution told Milimani senior principal magistrate Esther Kimilu that the value of the cooking oil, meant for some of the starving people in the hunger-stricken arid areas in 23 counties was Sh33,110,000.
The traders were arrested after detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations descended on their offices in Westlands and took away computers, business files and Sh310,000 for forensic investigations.
Orinda is out on a bond of Sh2 million while Otieno was released on a Sh1 million bond.
Mwaniki was granted a bond of Sh800,000. They will return to court today for fresh directions on how the hearing will proceed.
