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…The courts jurisdiction has not been properly invoked as order 5 [1] Rule 7 of the Civil Procedure Rules is applicable only where summons expire before they are served upon the defendant. 2.…

…This honorable court lacks jurisdiction to issue the orders as sought. 3. The application is vexatious and a blatant abuse of the due process of the honourable court and ought to be struck out.…

…In opposition of the said application the defendant’s advocate has taken a preliminary point that the court has no jurisdiction to try this suit as it is instituted prematurely and in contravention of the Architects and Quanitity…

…The defendant’s advocate in the course of his submission did not argue that the court had no jurisdiction although it is there in his written statement of opposition to the substantive application.…

…deceased by a special order of the court if this is proper but Mr Khanna, for all the appellants, said that these proposals were put forward as manifesting the appellants’ good faith, but that he doubted whether this court had jurisdiction…

…Moreover, he is beyond the jurisdiction.…

…Kabiru Karanja & 4 others read together with Section 76 of Co-operative Societies Act 1997 would show that this court has no jurisdiction to entertain disputes of this nature.…

…information about the progress of the case is available because it is evident from counsel’s submissions that the High Court file has been lost, and we are also informed that the decree, a vital document for the purpose of our jurisdiction…

…They had no jurisdiction to sit in judgment respecting the suit land.…

…His conclusion was based on the fact that he was acquitted by a Court of competent jurisdiction of the offence of theft of the tyre and was therefore completely exonerated from blame.…

…Mr Sampson also quoted from Lee vs Showman’s Guild of Great Britain [1976] 1 All ER 1175 in which it was held that the courts have jurisdiction to examine any decision of a domestic tribunal which involved a question of law…

…For myself, I should be very slow to make any such order on motion, though in a clear and compelling case there is no doubt jurisdiction to do so. I do not think that this is a case of that sort.…

…error on the part of an advocate (which would, of course, include that of his clerk) did not amount to sufficient reason for extending time to file the memorandum and record of appeal, and that consequently the court had no jurisdiction…

…Under rule 1(3) of order vii Civil Procedure Rules, the Superior Court however had a discretion – it had jurisdiction instead of striking out the plaint to make any other appropriate orders such as giving the plaintiffs another…