Nairobi, Jan. 18 -- The Judiciary is seeking to have its budget for the next year's financial year (2023/24) doubled to Sh43 billion to cater for the establishment of new courts, automation of court processes, recruitment of more judges and clearance of case backlog.

The Judiciary's budget allocation in the current financial year (2022/23) is Sh20.997 billion of, which Sh19.097 billion was for the recurrent expenditure and Sh1.9 billion for the development vote.

According to its Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) budget report for 2023/24 to 2025/26, the Judiciary says the total resource requirement for the forthcoming financial year (2023/24) stands at Sh43.17 billion.

From this, a sum of Sh35.81 billion is the requirement for r...