THE EAST AFRICAN COURT OF JUSTICE TEN YEARS OF OPERATION

Abstract

The East African Court of Justice (The Court) will mark its 10th year since inauguration on 30th November 2011. This period of its existence offers the Court special opportunity to take stock of its performance which inevitably is characterized by successes and challenges for the future. The first Ten Years of the Court’s life have seen the Court born as a baby, stumble from teething problems of infancy, and then begin to grow into adolescent stature and status.1 In this paper I wish to take a chronological and sequential approach by first examining the successes which the Court has marked and then look at the challenges facing it, before concluding the discussion.