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…No suit should be summarily dismissed unless it appears so hopeless that it plainly and obviously discloses no reasonable cause of action and is so weak as to be beyond redemption and incurable by an amendment.…

…If a suit shows a mere semblance of a cause of action, provided it can be injected with real life by amendment, it ought to be allowed to go forward for a court of justice ought not to act in darkness without the full facts…

…The 3rd defendant was brought in these proceedings by an amendment of the plaint amended on 19th March 2001. The 3rd defendant filed his defence on 7th May 2001.…

…To this submission the State Counsel pointed to the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act No 5 of 2003 section 193A dealing with “concurrent criminal and civil proceedings” which states: “Notwithstanding the provisions of any other…

…Regarding Criminal Law Amendment section 193A there is here no case for stay or delaying criminal proceedings. It is clear that the lower court criminal case was closed. No plea was taken.…

…An amendment permitted by the court was to the effect that the alternative prayer was brought under Order 44, rule 1 of the Civil Procedure Rules (the Rules).…

…A parallel situation as regards the amendment of the rules might be said to have occurred in England in relation to extension of time.…

…Under the law as it was conceived to be before the amendment, such a mistake was considered to be in no circumstances a sufficient ground.…

…A parallel situation as regards the amendment of the rules might be said to have occurred in England in relation to extension of time.…

…Under the law as it was conceived to be before the amendment, such a mistake was considered to be in no circumstances a sufficient ground.…

…The crux of the plaintiff’s application is that the defendant is charging additional and illegal interest in contravention of Section 44 of the Banking Act as read with Section 39 of the Central Bank of Kenya (Amendment)…

…As the amendment to the defence raising the Barraclough v Brown issue was raised by the Court at a very later stage, I award the defendants 1/3 of his costs.…

…The court after hearing the argument allowed the amendments. The plaintiff ‘s evidence is that she constructed her kiosk in 1981 while she was working with the City Council. She then retired to run it.…

…There being no room for this in the pleading and in the absence of the amendment, this court cannot find any ground for awarding aggravated damages in addition to damages for loss of business in addition to exemplary damages…

…little time to persuade the advocates that under rule 5(2)(b) the court has its own jurisdiction to grant an injunction pending an appeal since February 8, 1984 when it was provided for by clause 3 of the Court of Appeal (Amendment…

…The conditions in the amendment rule for the exercise of it are that a notice of appeal has been lodged in accordance with rule 74 and that if it is granted it will be so on such terms as the court may think just.…

…It is correct that this defence was raised for the first time when the trial was about to commence, but when I allowed the amendment to the defence Mr Malik was quite content to proceed without seeking an adjournment: if…

…Amendment) Act (Act No. 6, 2009), Order XXXIX Rules 1, 2, 3 and 9, Order V Rule 17 (1) of the Civil Procedure Rules, and Section 3A of the Civil Procedure Act.…

…The Defendants on their part opine that since no documentation was produced to show the precise earnings of the Deceased, the Court ought to employ the Minimum Wage (General/Amendment) Order 2017, which set the minimum wage…