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…Waweru, J who gave an order directing the 1st Defendant to provide security for costs to the Plaintiffs or alternatively show cause why such security should not be provided.…

…If the appeal succeeded, the order to be made would automatically render the proceedings in the High Court unnecessary but an appropriate order for costs would remedy that.…

…The matter of the costs of this litigation is the last one.…

…Each party paid its own costs in the Ngare trial, costs were not dealt with in the Chesire order laid before me and in the Moraa one the unsuccessful plaintiff paid them.…

…Chohan applied for the dismissal of the suit with costs. The defendants did not admit any part of the claim against them and so I was left with no alternative but to dismiss the claim for lack of evidence.…

…The second one was for costs.…

…The only issue in dispute is what order for costs should be made. The Plaintiff says that it is not his fault that the suit has now become spent.…

…In his view therefore, each party should bear its own costs of the suit. The Defendant on the other hand says that costs follow the event; therefore it should be awarded costs of this suit.…

…Costs of the application.…

…What order should be made on costs? Mr M’bmoti, inter alia submits that the alleged lease not having been consented to by the plaintiff is invalid unforceable against the plaintiff.…

…(b) The costs of the survey exercise be borne by the Plaintiff and the first Defendant in equal portions. (c) The surveyors to file a joint report within SIXTY (60) days of this order.…

…(d) Costs of the application be in the suit. (e) The Plaintiff’s counsel shall serve a certified copy of the order upon the two surveyors.…

…COURTS CIVIL CASE NO 2637 OF 1987 PIONEER GENERAL ASSURANCE SOCIETY LTD………………….PLAINTIFF VERSUS D W KARANJA…………………………………………………….DEFENDANT JUDGMENT This is an application under 0.35 r 1 for a judgment for Kshs 295,137/- with costs…

…I, therefore, grant the plaintiff’s application for summary judgment filed on 7th August, 1987 with costs and enter judgment for the plaintiff with costs as prayed in the plaint. October 26, 1987 RAUF JUDGE…

…the counsel for the decree holder is holding some Kshs 54,535.35 which he has not accounted to the decree-holder and alleges that he considers the debt cleared and he should be declared relieved of it; he also claims the costs…

…of trying to sell the security before the case was filled while the salary attachment totaling some Kshs 13,488.50 went towards the costs of the suit.…

…As the defendant has not contested their claim, I do not find it necessary to burden him with the costs of this suit. I therefore order that each party shall meet his own costs. Order accordingly.…

…An order that the second defendant/applicant liquidate the decretal sum and costs of the suit by monthly instalments until payment in full.…

…I will accordingly dismiss it with costs. The sale to proceed. Dated this 19th day of June, 1986. S E O BOSIRE JUDGE 19.6.86…

…lawfully stored or detained, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable to pay to the person or persons aggrieved by the removal three times the value of the goods, chattels, stock or crops so removed, in addition to any costs…

…any pound-breach or rescous of goods or chattels detrained for rent, the person or persons grieved thereby shall, in a special action upon the case for the wrong thereby sustained, recover his and their treble damages and costs…

…any other person until the final disposal of this suit that the sale of the said property by the first defendant to the third defendant by public auction on 12th March 1987 is null and void for all purposes and that the costs…

…That suit was struck out and dismissed with costs on 10th June, 1987.…

…Thirdly, that provision be made for the costs of the application. The applicants essentially beg this court to exercise its judicial discretion in their favour.…

…Mr Shah offered to compensate the plaintiff in costs. In effect all he was saying is that his clients would compensate the plaintiff.…

…of this document the plaintiff/applicant through his counsel Njuguna & Co, Advocates filed an application on 21st April 1992 to pray for entry of judgment against the defendant/respondent in the sum of Kshs 67,900/= with costs…

…I dismiss the application but order that each party do bear his or it’s own costs. Dated and delivered at Eldoret this 19th day of May , 1992. D.S.K AGANYANYA JUDGE…

…He further seeks a declaration that he, the plaintiff is entitled to bury the body as he wishes, and he asks for costs against both defendants.…

…He asked for an injunction to restrain the plaintiff from burying the deceased elsewhere, and that the plaintiff’s suit be dismissed with costs.…

…A dispute as to costs due and payable by the advocate to client has arisen and a Client Advocate bill has been filed in court.…

…Firstly the bill has not been taxed to ascertain the costs of the applicant for services rendered to the client. In the meantime the advocate has deposited the full amount involved into the court pending the taxation.…

…The sum of Shs.200,000/- deposited into court on the 7th December, 1994 as security for costs be released to Meenye & company advocates on their professional undertaking to pay a sum of Shs.25,000/- being portion thereof…

…to Hamilton Harrison & Mathews being their agreed costs in full and final settlement. 2.…

…The Defendants state that the plaintis suit has no basis and urges the court to dismiss the same with costs. The Evidence 12.…

…Justice Gikonyo stated:- “In spite of lack of receipts this court ought not to turn a blind eye to the fact that there were funeral costs incurred as a result of the burial of the deceased.…

…It seeks an order that summary judgment be entered for the plaintiff, Agricultural Development Corporation, as prayed in the plaint and that the costs of the application be provided for.…

…The present defendant’s counter claim is in respect of alleged costs of repair carried out by him. The two cases are peculiarly similar.…