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Hon. Mbacho is a Senior Resident Magistrate and serves as Deputy
Registrar at the Milimani Law Courts, Civil Division. She joined the Judiciary
in November 2017. Prior to joining the Judiciary, Hon. Mbacho worked as a
Prosecution Counsel in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Hon. Mbacho is a holder of an LLB from Moi University. She also holds an
LLM from the University of Nairobi and is an accredited mediator.
HON. LYDIAH MBACHO
Walter Khobe is a Legal Counsel in the Office of the Chief Justice.
Prior to joining the Office of the Chief Justice, he was a Lecturer at the
Department of Public Law, Moi University; Partner at B.O. Akang’o and
Company Advocates; and an Associate Editor of the Platform Magazine.
Walter Khobe holds an LLM degree from the University of Pretoria, an LLB
(Hons.) from Moi University, a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from
the Kenya School of Law, and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Constitution
Building from the Central European University. He is an Advocate of the
High Court of Kenya.
HON. ZIPPORAH
GICHANA
WALTER KHOBE
Hon. Gichana is a Principal Magistrate in the Judiciary of Kenya. She joined
the Judiciary in 2012. She is an alumnus of the United Nations Asia Far
East Institute for the Prevention of Crime, with a focus on “Child Witnesses
in the Justice System” and is a Certified Public Secretary (K). She has
worked at Kikuyu Law Courts where she championed for communitycentred alternative dispute resolution and Court Annexed Mediation. She
has also worked at the Milimani Children’s Court where she advanced the
rights of children in conflict with the law and advocated for their pro bono
representation before it was adopted as a policy. In December 2020, she
was appointed as the Secretary to the JCE and CEO of the JCE Secretariat.
Hon. Mulochi holds an LLB and LLM from the University of South Africa.
He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Nairobi. Hon. Mulochi
is a Senior Resident Magistrate who has served in the Judiciary since
2017. Before his appointment to the magistracy, Hon. Mulochi served as
a Prosecutor with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Hon.
Mulochi is the Deputy Secretary to the JCE.
HON. EDWIN
MULOCHI
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