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…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.…

…The Court, he submitted, has no jurisdiction supervising or pretending to supervise Parliament.…

…Accordingly, the second respondent cannot rely on section 29 of cap 6 aforesaid to oust the jurisdiction of this Court. 20.…

…The Court, he submitted, has no jurisdiction supervising or pretending to supervise Parliament.…

…Accordingly, the second respondent cannot rely on section 29 of cap 6 aforesaid to oust the jurisdiction of this Court. 20.…

…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.…

…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.…

…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.…

…Affidavit or otherwise that the defendant with intent to obstruct or delay the execution of any decree that may be passed against him is about to remove the whole or any part of his property from the local limits of the jurisdiction…

…That is because there is now sufficient proof that after the filing of the first application which sought the attachment of 5 trucks and their trailers, two of those trailers and trucks were spirited away from the jurisdiction…

…Mr Nagpal was of the view that parties cannot by agreement confer jurisdiction on the Court where none exists.…

…What I understood him to be saying , although he denied it, was that the Court had no jurisdiction to make the order dated 24th September, 1976, because by then there was no suit the same having abated.…

…So that in the defence and counter-claim, the defendant pleads that the Business Premises Tribunal has no jurisdiction to deal with the dispute between it and the plaintiff while for the purposes of resisting the plaintiff…

…’s application for summary judgment the defendant contends that the Tribunal has jurisdiction and “there are triable issues in the matter to be heard” before the Tribunal.…

…open to controversy in the early suit (ie that the subject matter in dispute is the same), either actually or constructively; (b) that the same subject matter in dispute now came in question before a Court of competent jurisdiction…

…That is to say, there I showed the conditions of applying the doctrine of res judicata to be (a) Identity of the matter in issue; (b) Identity of the parties; (c) Sameness of title; (d) Concurrence of jurisdiction; (e) Finality…

…Counsel submitted that until the issue is dealt with under the Advocates Act the police are usurping the power given by statute to another body and have no jurisdiction to charge an advocate before the proper procedure is…

…authorities and the facts of this application I am convinced that this Court is empowered to grant orders sought the decision to charge the applicant on material laid before the Court is oppressive in bad faith and in excess of jurisdiction…

…The order that this being a boundary dispute court had no jurisdiction until the Land Registrar had determined the boundaries pursuant to s. 21(2) of the Registered land Act.…

…That application sought an order that the name of the second defendant be struck out and the suit against the second defendant be dismissed with costs on the ground that the second defendant is immune from the jurisdiction…

…This Court lacks jurisdiction to rule on it in the manner prayed for.…

…I cannot revisit the issue regard being had of the fact that him and I have concurrent jurisdiction. The submissions by applicant’s counsel on the issue are superfluous.…

…This Court lacks jurisdiction to rule on it in the manner prayed for.…

…I cannot revisit the issue regard being had of the fact that him and I have concurrent jurisdiction. The submissions by applicant’s counsel on the issue are superfluous.…

…This Court lacks jurisdiction to rule on it in the manner prayed for.…

…I cannot revisit the issue regard being had of the fact that him and I have concurrent jurisdiction. The submissions by applicant’s counsel on the issue are superfluous.…

…That would mean that this court has no jurisdiction in this matter which must go to the Business Premises Rent Tribunal. Nor can possession be obtained except as provided under cap 301.…

…It is therefore necessary to consider this case in terms of my equitable jurisdiction in respect of which the following considerations apply: (1) There is no dispute between the parties, and clear authority has been quoted…

…applied by the motion before me for an order for extension of time to file the notice of appeal although it is debatable whether in the circumstances of this case I can grant such a request in view of S.7 of the Appellate Jurisdiction…

…But this jurisdiction is a delicate one which will only be exercised with great caution and only in the clearest of cases.…