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…It becomes clear that this was outside the monetary jurisdiction of the trial court.…

…None of the counsels appearing here and the court below pointed out the question of jurisdiction to the learned trial magistrate.…

…The appellant pleaded that the court had no jurisdiction to try the case but he was overruled by the resident magistrate.…

…In this instant case the 1st defendant society bought Karanjee farm and presumably had jurisdiction to subdivide it and allocate the resultant plots to its members.…

…In his oral submissions before me Mr Masese even argued that the court has no jurisdiction to entertain the claim under the said Act.…

…It was also argued that the court had no jurisdiction to entertain this suit because the alleged sub-tenancy is a controlled tenancy.…

…Appeal decision in Owners of the Motor Vessel “Lillian S’ -vsCaltex Oil (Kenya) Ltd [1989] KLR, wherein it was held that jurisdiction is everything and that where a court lacks jurisdiction it must down its tool.…

…Bank and 2 Others (2012) eKLR jurisdiction can only be conferred by the Constitution or statute; and that neither the Constitution nor any other law granted the High Court jurisdiction to intervene in the manner sought by…

…STRONG REASON The courts of this country have a discretion to assume jurisdiction over an agreement which is made to be performed in Kenya notwithstanding a clause therein conferring jurisdiction.…

…and Kenindia are already within the jurisdiction.…

…By Section 3 (1) of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act which confers jurisdiction on this Court: “The Court of Appeal shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine appeals from the courts of Kenya in cases in which an appeal…

…Jurisdiction is not the same thing as procedure. Procedural rules do not bestow jurisdiction”.…

…Accordingly, this court has no jurisdiction to hear and determine stale proceedings. 19.…

…The question is, did the Magistrate’s court have the jurisdiction to tax the advocate/client bill of costs? 24. Jurisdiction is everything, without which, a court of law acts in vain.…

…Otherwise it had jurisdiction to hear and determine the case under section 159 of the Act, as the section was at that time.…

…It says that the senior resident magistrate, Nyeri, had no jurisdiction to determine a boundary dispute.…

…of the Court and since the jurisdiction of this Court is founded on statute, it cannot be properly invoked unless the intending appellant strictly complies with its provisions.…

…Counsel said the objection merely raised a procedural point which this Court, in its inherent jurisdiction, can waive.…

…of the Court and since the jurisdiction of this Court is founded on statute, it cannot be properly invoked unless the intending appellant strictly complies with its provisions.…

…Counsel said the objection merely raised a procedural point which this Court, in its inherent jurisdiction, can waive.…

…Analysis (a) The Question o f Jurisdiction 42. The 1st respondent submitted that this Court has no jurisdiction to entertain the Notice of Motion.…

…In each of those decisions, the Court has considered dierent angles of the jurisdictional question.…

…The advocate for the applicant/plaintiffs argued that indeed the courts had inherent jurisdiction at the level of the High Court.…

…It is to this jurisdiction that the defendants stated that this court has no powers to entertain. The plaintiff, they claim have come first to the wrong court.…

…It was urged that the magistrate misdirected himself in holding that the elders had no jurisdiction, that the magistrate should have held that all cases of trespass had to be heard by elders, that because the sale agreement…

…The appellants relied on section (1) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, cap 10 which provides, “9A(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 5 and 9 or of any other written law conferring jurisdiction, but subject to the…

…Consequently, the court found it lacked jurisdiction to grant leave and dismissed the application..…

…made - whether the six-month limitation period prescribed under section 9(3) of the Law Reform Act for filing an application for leave to apply for an order of certiorari was mandatory and absolute - whether the court had jurisdiction…

…Neither in the pleadings nor in the trial was the jurisdiction of the Kenyan courts to entertain the suit contested.…

…And a litigant who submits to the jurisdiction of the Kenyan courts must, ipso facto, submit to the statutory restrictions on the exercise of that jurisdiction.…

…The second one is that this Court lacks jurisdiction to entertain the application. Mr.…

…The result was that the application is presently grounded on the inherent jurisdiction of the Court. Two issues are raised by the application. Firstly whether this Court possesses the jurisdiction to entertain it.…

…The order of 17.7.95 went on: 'This case involves a dispute in land and therefore it has been caught up by Act 18 of 1990 which took away the jurisdiction of courts.…

…This court as constituted had equal and concurrent jurisdiction with the court Osiemo Judge presided over leading to the ruling under attack.…

…shall be liable to be sued in any Court for the execution of any warrant order or process which he would have been bound to execute if within the jurisdiction of the person issuing the same.”…

…Those are Judge, magistrate or justice of peace and any other person acting judicially and who at the time of acting he acted in good faith believing he had jurisdiction to act.…

…That the learned District Magistrate erred in law and in fact in handling a case having no jurisdiction to do so. This appeal was filed way back in April 1997 but for unknown reasons it was never prosecuted.…

…Due to the nature of the proceedings, this appeal should be allowed and the matter referred to retrial but looking at the pleadings, certain issues emerge that touches on the validity of the claims and the jurisdiction of…