With respect, an appeal is won or lost on substantive legal questions, not on speculative debates about page numbering.
If there are genuine concerns regarding the integrity of the judgment, those issues should be raised through proper judicial procedures and supported by evidence. However, the central task before the appellate court will be to determine whether there were errors of law, violations of constitutional rights, procedural irregularities, or misapplications of legal principles that materially affected the outcome.
The right to a fair hearing, due process, jurisdictional questions, evidentiary standards, and constitutional compliance are the kinds of issues that typically determine appeals ,not whether a judgment was announced as 350 pages and later circulated as 286 pages.
On 8th June, 2026, at approximately 12:30 PM, during the delivery of H.E. Rigathi Gachaguaâs impeachment judgment, Hon. Justice Erick Ogola informed the advocates present that the court was delivering a 350-page verdict. However, the parties were subsequently served with a judgment consisting of only 286 pages. This means that the judgment falls short by 64 pages.
What happened to the 64 pages?
Who altered the judgment?
Why was it altered?
Who benefits from the alterations?
How should this judgment of 286 pages, instead of the stated 350 pages, now be treated?