Which brings me to judges, robes and wigs. There’s no question that Kenya’s legal profession is tortured by the question of dress. What should lawyers and judges wear as official business dress?

By Femi Falana Between 1983 and 1987, the radical military regime of Captain Thomas Sankara changed the colonial name of Upper Volta to Burkina Faso. While the courts bequeathed by the former ...

Barristers and judges, however, were late to the peruke party. The first widespread cases of members of the judiciary sporting the wig didn’t appear until around 1685, as the rest of society was ...

wigs, hats, medals and even gloves in the new dispensation. These relics had featured in Kenya’s judicial attire at one point or another. Much earlier, before them, a judge in England had opined ...