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…This is an application by Messrs A Y A Jiwaji & Jiwaji who are now acting for the defendant for dismissal of this suit for want of prosecution.…

…The latter, a month after their appointment on January 31, 1979 applied for the suit to be dismissed for want of prosecution. That application was listed for hearing on April 14, 1983.…

…It is the plaintiff’s case that his prosecution was malicious and his dismissal wrongful.…

…Two matters must be established before the tort of malicious prosecution can be sustained.…

…He was unable to give any evidence that could justify the prosecution of the plaintiff and I have come to the conclusion that the prosecution of the plaintiff was unreasonable and unjustifiable.…

…There will be other cases where a prosecution is clearly launched on the instigation of a complainant who has persuaded a police officer to conduct the prosecution on his behalf.…

…So the prayers which were left were, firstly that the suit be struck out for being an abuse of the process of the court and for want of prosecution. An application under O.…

…In the above circumstances it is my view that the application for the dismissal of this suit for want of prosecution under O. XVI rule 5 is premature.…

…He blamed the officer in charge Diani Police Station as having been instrumental in his arrest, beating and subsequent prosecution.…

…Having come to the foregoing conclusion, the tort of malicious prosecution must of necessity fail. There was justification for the arrest, detention and prosecution of the plaintiff.…

…The defendant seeks an order for the dismissal of the suit for want of prosecution.…

…The third defendant has sufficiently proved that the action as against him ought to be dismissed for want of prosecution.…

…It is accepted that in an action for malicious prosecution the plaintiff cannot succeed unless he establishes the following essential ingredients of the tort known as malicious prosecution.…

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

…The prosecution case was dependent on the evidence of PW1.…

…In the result, I am persuaded that the prosecution has proved its case beyond reasonable doubt that the accused beat the deceased for 20 minutes.…

…No. 406 of 2001 deals with criminal prosecution and abuse of court process.…

…Elsewhere in the judgment (page 15) the judges had this to say: “A prosecution that is oppressive and vexatious is an abuse of court process.…

….…….. 3RD DEFENDANT RULING The three defendants herein have brought this application for an order that the suit filed against them by the defendant be dismissed for want of prosecution.…

…When he was faced with the same situation in the first application for dismissal for want of prosecution, Mulwa, J. declined to do so in the interests of justice because as he put it the dismissal would have affected numerous…

…There is no allegation in the supporting affidavit that the Judgment-Debtor cannot afford to deposit the decretal sum as ordered, or that such deposit will so affect its operations as to amount to a fetter on prosecution…

…did not include a certified copy of the decree in the record of appeal; that the omission to include the order (sic) decree was a mistake on the part of his then advocate; and that as the applicant had fully entrusted the prosecution…

….…….4TH DEFENDANT RULING The first and second defendants have pending before court a Notice of Motion dated 27th July 2006 seeking the dismissal of this suit for want of prosecution.…

…By the bringing of the application to substitute the plaintiff it was made clear both to the Court and the defendant that the estate of the deceased plaintiff was desirous of continuing the prosecution of the cause of action…

…He does not say in which trafficcase and the result of the prosecution.…

…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 incurred by the person or persons so aggrieved in the prosecution…

…O XV1 deals with the prosecution of suits and adjournments. O XV1 rule 4, is instructive. On 9th May, 1989, the suit came for trial. An application for adjournment was made on behalf of the plaintiff, and, was granted.…

…suit and the same was never served upon the Plaintiffs until 08.01.2007(five(5) months after filing and almost two(2) months after the Ruling of 27.11.2006 which application is now fixed for hearing on 10.05.2007 3) The prosecution…

…suit and the same was never served upon the Plaintiffs until 08.01.2007(five(5) months after filing and almost two(2) months after the Ruling of 27.11.2006 which application is now fixed for hearing on 10.05.2007 3) The prosecution…