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…By a plaint filed on 9th July, 1987 the plaintiffs pray for the reliefs set out afore and add a prayer for damages for unlawful sale and purported disposal of the plaintiffs’ property.…

…Further still, if the sale was unlawful the plaintiffs pray for damages arising thereunder.…

…By doing so I believe I am satisfying 3 of Mr Munenes claims which he categorized as follows:- (1) Unlawful acquisition of LR 219/16 (2) Trespass (3) Breach of an agreement to offer to exchange land for Land Acquired.…

…Particulars of this claim which is alleged to have arisen from the unlawful refusal or neglect of the defendants to approve of the plaintiffs development plans for the said plot, are set out in Paragraph 10 of the Amended…

…As a result the plaintiff suffered unlawful imprisonment with mental torture and physical suffering for one full year – after serving the lawful imprisonment period.…

…In the case of AttorneyGeneralvsOluoch [1972] EA 392, claims of damages were brought against two police officers and two magistrates for unlawful confinement and false imprisonment.…

…In my ruling aforesaid, I found that the distress was unlawful and that possession was equally unlawful. I believe I was right. However, the applicant has an undoubted right of appeal. This is not the last court.…

…Though the parties did not frame any issues it is clear from the pleadings that the two major issues for determination by this court are: (i) Whether the alleged arrest and imprisonment of the plaintiff was unlawful and the…

…Was the alleged arrest and imprisonment of the plaintiff unlawful and the prosecution that followed malicious?…

…Interlocutory judgment was entered for the plaintiff for a declaration that the seizure and impounding of the plaintiff’s motor vehicle registration No KUT 264 by the defendant was unlawful and without due process.…

…The result is that the defendant is regarded to have admitted it wrongfully, unlawfully and without due process of the law impounded the plaintiff’s motor vehicle from a parking lot in the city.…

…The plaintiffs who were not only members of the Chamber but also of the Governing Council, claim in their plaint that they were unlawfully expelled from the Chamber by its Governing Council at its meeting held on 16.2.90…

…In the alternative, the plaintiffs sought damages for their unlawful expulsion.…

…She contends that her employment was unlawful and in breach of her contract of service with the Defendant. She further contends that the Defendant defamed her in various notes and memoranda addressed to her.…

…From what I have outlined above, I hold the view that what the Defendant did was arbitrary and unlawful.…

…264; Freem KB 137; 30 digest 501, 1594), according to which “A dispensation or licence property passeth no interest, nor alters or transfers property in anything but only makes an action lawful which without it had been unlawful…

…In the result I dismiss prayer ‘c’ of the plaint in respect of the alleged “unlawful premature termination of the agreement” with costs. Delivered this 6th day of April, 1989, RAUF JUDGE…

…In the plaint she prays for an injunction, an order that the 2nd (plaintiff / defendant (respondent ) all house goods seized, and general damages for trespass and unlawful detention of the goods.…

…If no rent was owing at the time of distress then the levying of distress would be unlawful or at least excessive and court should stop the sale of the seized goods pending the determination of the lawfulness or otherwise…

…It was unlawful killing and they must be liable.…

…It further follows that what he did in this matter without a practising certificate is unlawful and an illegality.…

…There was no justification for the assault and the same was unlawful. The court therefore holds that the two plaintiffs were unlawfully assaulted by the first two defendants and they are therefore liable in damages.…

…All he did was unlawful and thus of no validity at all hence nullifying those proceedings. Mr.…

…He deponed that if any building approvals were obtained from inter alia the 4th Respondent, it was done unlawfully, improperly and irregularly since the 3rd Respondent who purports to from the rights of the 1st and 2nd Respondents…

…Counsel further noted that the 3rd Respondent had admitted to undertaking the construction works on the suit property without rst obtaining the development permissions, which is unlawful under the Act and constitutes a crime…

…Reynolds was unlawfully detained.” In that case not only were there no grounds for detention shown in the statement but no grounds were shown in a subsequent inquiry and in an action for false imprisonment.…

…In the Ooko case, Rudd J, a most experienced judge came to a similar conclusion: “The plaintiff” he said “argued that failure to state sufficient detailed ground rendered his detention unlawful.…