Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System. J Osogo Ambani and Humphrey Sipalla. (Both Hardcopy and Softcopy)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword............................................................................................................ xi
Acknowledgements ........................................................................................ xiii
Chapter 1
Introduction ....................................................................................................... 1
J Osogo Ambani & Humphrey Sipalla
Chapter 2
‘Pariah, prisoner or patient?’: A brief history of persons with
intellectual and psychosocial disabilities in Kenya’s criminal justice
system.................................................................................................................. 11
Lizzy Muthoni Kibira
Introduction............................................................................................ 11
The origins of the ‘insanity defence’....................................................... 12
The origins of linkages between mental illness and criminal law in
Kenya ...................................................................................................... 16
The development of ethno-psychiatry ................................................... 19
Recent legal developments..................................................................... 25
Conclusion .............................................................................................. 27
Chapter 3
The evolution of the rights of persons with intellectual and
psychosocial disabilities in international human rights law................... 29
J Osogo Ambani, Marion Joy Ochangwa, Maryanne Njogu & Rahab Wakuraya
Mureithi
Introduction............................................................................................ 29
The definition of ‘disability’ in international human rights law............ 30
The UN human rights framework.......................................................... 33
Implementing and monitoring compliance with the CRPD ............ 40
UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. 43
The AU human rights framework .......................................................... 44
Specific rights of persons with intellectual and psychosocial
disabilities under international human rights law ................................ 50
Specific rights-based protections for persons with intellectual and
psychosocial disabilities in the criminal justice system................... 55
Reversing the ‘insanity defence’ through the right to legal capacity 57
Conclusion .............................................................................................. 59
Chapter 4
An overview of the legal and policy framework for the protection of
persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities in Kenya.......... 61
Rahab Wakuraya Mureithi & Maryanne Njogu
Introduction............................................................................................ 61
2010 Constitution................................................................................... 62
Rights within the Bill of Rights......................................................... 62
Rights outside the Bill of Rights ....................................................... 64
Acts of Parliament .................................................................................. 65
Criminal Procedure Code.................................................................. 65
Penal Code......................................................................................... 69
Mental Health Act............................................................................. 70
Prisons Act ......................................................................................... 71
Persons Deprived of Liberty Act....................................................... 72
Policies and guidelines ........................................................................... 72
The Standing Orders......................................................................... 72
Guidelines on the Decision to Charge, 2019 .................................... 75
Bail and Bond Policy Guidelines....................................................... 75
Conclusion .............................................................................................. 76
Chapter 5
Between arrest and sentence: Treatment of persons with intellectual
and psychosocial disabilities in Kenya’s criminal justice system .......... 77
Lizzy Muthoni Kibira & Kevin Kipchirchir
Introduction............................................................................................ 77
Offences criminalising intellectual or psychosocial disability............... 79
Arrest and intellectual or psychosocial disability .................................. 82
Decision to charge a person with intellectual or psychosocial
disability ................................................................................................. 83
Fitness to stand trial............................................................................... 83
The ‘insanity defence’ during trial ......................................................... 85
Support and facilitation through intermediaries in court
proceedings ....................................................................................... 88
The ‘insanity defence’ during sentencing and punishment................. 93
Conclusion ............................................................................................ 99
Chapter 6........................................................................................................... 101
Emerging judicial jurisprudence on mental health in Kenya’s
criminal justice system................................................................................... 101
J Osogo Ambani, Kevin Kipchirchir & Alex Tamei
Introduction.......................................................................................... 101
Phases of post-2010 judicial jurisprudence......................................... 104
Phase 1: Circumventing Government bureaucracy........................ 104
Phase 2: Questioning the constitutionality of the CPC .................. 109
Phase 3: The Lady Justice Lesiit School.......................................... 114
Phase 4: Higher jurisprudential chaos ............................................ 118
Conclusion ............................................................................................ 120
Chapter 7
Selected African judicial jurisprudence on mental health and the
criminal justice system................................................................................... 121
Justus Otiso & Kevin Kipchirchir
Introduction........................................................................................... 121
Selected African case studies................................................................ 122
Namibia........................................................................................... 122
South Africa..................................................................................... 124
Uganda ............................................................................................ 125
Zimbabwe........................................................................................ 129
Conclusion ............................................................................................ 133

A legal and policy analysis of how mental health conditions interact with Kenya's criminal justice system, edited by leading Kenyan legal scholars.