Profile Of Otiende Amollo's Daughter Admitted To High Court [PHOTOS]
Miriam was among over 800 advocates admitted to the bar in an elaborate ceremony that took place at the Supreme Court of Kenya building in Nairobi.
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Rarieda Member of Parliament (MP) Otiende Amollo took to social media on Tuesday, June 6 to celebrate his daughter Miriam Hope Onono Amollo who was admitted to the bar as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya.
Miriam was among over 800 advocates admitted to the bar in an elaborate ceremony that took place at the Supreme Court of Kenya building in Nairobi.
The red-carpet ceremony was evidenced by newly-admitted advocates who populated social media, especially Twitter, with their sharply-dressed suits and their ceremonial wigs, one of the most notable symbols of a court in Kenya.
MP and SC Otiende Amollo and his daughter Miriam Amollo during her admission as an advocate of The High Court on June 6, 2023. /TWITTER.OTIENDE AMOLLO
“Congratulations Miriam H. O. Amollo On Your Admission As An Advocate Of The High Court Of Kenya! Nice & Solemn Ceremony, In Which I Also Represented the Senior Counsel Bar! We Thus Get The Third Advocate In The Family. To God Be the Glory,” tweeted an elated Amollo.
"And Congratulations Still Flow To Nyoyude, From the Entire Family, Kwaru & Dani, From JoRarieda & Beyond. May You Stay on The Narrow & Righteous Path Of Advocates Of The Old Tradition."
Viral Tea takes a look at the profile of Miriam Amollo as evidenced by her LinkedIn account.
Miriam Amollo Professional Profile
Miriam graduated from the University of Nairobi with a Bachelor of Law (LLB) in 2020, having commenced her studies in 2016.
She began in July 2019 as an intern at Rachier and Amollo Advocates, which his father and Ambrose Rachier, the chairman of Gor Mahia Football Club, jointly own.
The law firm was founded in the tail-end of the 1990s as a dynamic and result-oriented law firm, providing a full range of legal services to commercial and private clients. Set up by Rachier, its goal included establishing a vibrant law firm with unequivocal underpinnings on principles of honesty and non-exploitation of both staff and clientele.
"The firm aspires to become a pillar of efficient and un-paralleled legal practice and expertise, large enough to handle the multinational conglomerates, yet modest and caring enough to grant audience to the financially challenged, yet aggrieved members of society, whose rights have been abrogated unlawfully," reads a description of the firm.
Miriam then joined The Commission on Administrative Justice Office of the Ombudsman, Government of Kenya as a legal extern in November 2019 and worked as a legal intern at Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV/AIDS between November 2020 and April 2021.
She joined the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNHCR) as a pupil in June 2022 and she has been there to date.
"I am an ardent believer in human and humanitarian rights protection and promotion, and passionate about assisting the marginalized in society. This has been a great driving force in my past and continuous professional and charitable works," Miriam describes in her bio.
She is the second-born child of Amollo, following Rodney Abel Sewe who is also an advocate.
SC Otiende Amollo poses for a photo with his family on June 6, 2023. /TWITTER.OTIENDE AMOLLO
Otiende Amollo’s third born Paul Amollo is named after him and completed high school in 2022. The fourth borns are triplets namely; Gift Amollo, Grace Amollo, and John Jayden Amollo.
How To Get Admitted To The Bar
Admission of lawyers to the bar marks a transition from studies to practising what they have been studying. However, law happens to be one of the most rigorous professions in Kenya and the world alongside medicine.
The rigorous training is hinged on the importance of the services these professionals offer and the delicate nature of the issues they need to handle.
The journey to the status of a lawyer and an Advocate of the High Court in Kenya begins in high school after one completes primary education and transitions to this level.
Any student who wants to pursue a bachelor's degree in Law (LLB) needs to excel in language subjects, in the Kenyan context, Kiswahili and English. Legal education legislations demand that before undertaking LLB one must have scored a mean grade of at least a C+ in Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) with a B in either English or Kiswahili.
The exclusivity of law is that it cannot be studied on a crash programme basis and students mandatorily study for four years.
Once one has completed their undergraduate degree in law they are identified as a lawyer, however, it does not entitle one to practice law, especially representing clients in the courtrooms, even though one can work as a researcher in a law firm.
“After completing your undergraduate studies one is supposed to enrol to the Advocates Training Programme at the Kenya School of Law (KSL). Here is where you study to become an Advocate of the High. The programme takes 18 months inclusive of pupillage,” an advocate explained in a past interview.
“A lawyer cannot practice in court and cannot draw documents. The only option is to be a researcher or join academia while an Advocate of the High Court is a licensed lawyer who can do everything under the Advocates Act like representing clients, drawing and commissioning documents."
For one to transition from this level, one must pass exams on all nine legal subjects at the Kenya School of Law (KSL). One needs to get at least 50 per cent per unit with oral examinations accounting for 20 per cent which is distributed among all the units and a project for every unit which accounts for 20 per cent.
Failing even a single exam at this training level means one must redo the paper until one passes it. It is after one passes their examinations at KSL and completes their pupillage that they can petition the Chief Justice (CJ) for admission to practice law in the country.
In territories like the United Kingdom, pupillage is a two-month training period for individuals who want to become barristers. These students will have to spend the 12 months in a barrister’s chamber and shadow cases of experienced barristers for six months and their own in the final six months.
Advocates have previously described the journey as a painstaking one which comes at the sacrifice of one's social life and devoting more time to study for the tough KSL exams.
Some of them described the journey to being an advocate as one filled with days and nights of reading as well as interacting with mentors and learning how they made it through the dreaded examinations.
