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…High Court, Nairobi under order 39 rule 1 and 2 of the rules seeking orders that the defendants and each of them be restrained by injunction from removing the body of the deceased from the Nairobi City Mortuary pending the hearing…

…The defendants thereafter hurried to this court and successfully sought the injunction and order granted on January 7, 1987 pending the hearing of the interlocutory appeal.…

…335 OF 1997 N W...........................................................APPLICANT versus M M.........................................................RESPONDENT R U L I N G There is a Divorce petition still pending for hearing…

…Be that as it may, the application that came before the learned trial magistrate was interlocutory pending the hearing of the divorce petition. Its foundation was the petition which was the substantive suit.…

…The appellant through his advocate in opposing the application has deposed that the delay in setting the appeal down for hearing has been occasioned by the failure of the court to avail the proceedings of the trial court…

…In the first situation, if within 3 months after the giving of directions the appeal has not been set down for hearing by the appellant, the respondent may elect either to set it down for hearing himself or apply for its…

…She adjourned the application to 26th April 1994 for hearing inter partes.…

…From the directions of the Honourable Chief Justice what is for hearing today is the main suit and not the application. I am prepared for hearing of the main suit.…

…Onyango is recorded to have stated as follows: “This hearing date was taken by consent of the parties. This morning I saw the Plaintiff in court.…

…It would appear to us that in this case the application was placed before Hayanga, J. for hearing on that account.…

…Alternatively, it seems, for it is not entirely clear, Mr Khanna, moves for an order that the executors of the deceased be substituted now and the hearing of the appeal be deferred pending the production of their grant of…

…probate, or the substitution and the hearing be deferred until the executors have obtained grant of probate.…

…, which in my view can have no other meaning than a reference to the hearing of the petition and not, for instance, to the hearing of an application such as that with which we are concerned in the present case.…

…The consequence of a breach of the rule is that the hearing of the petition is cancelled.…

….…..RESPONDENT RULING When this appeal was called on for hearing, Mr Kwach, appearing on behalf of the two respondents, took the preliminary objection that the mandatory provisions of Rule 85 (1) (f) of rules of this court…

….…..RESPONDENT RULING When this appeal was called on for hearing, Mr Kwach, appearing on behalf of the two respondents, took the preliminary objection that the mandatory provisions of Rule 85 (1) (f) of rules of this court…

…was fixed for hearing on March 29, 1979.…

…It does not appear that the advocate informed his client of the hearing date.…

…Further that the appeal has high chances of success and that for the seven (7) years that the case was pending hearing and determination the appellants were out on bond and at no time did they abscond. I have heard Mr.…

…I have also noted the concerns raised in the pre-bond report and I am of the considered view since the appeal has been filed and a date for hearing has been fixed the case should proceed to hearing of the substantive appeal…

…The appellant and his then advocate, had failed to attend court on the day fixed for the hearing of the suit.…

…The wording of rule 4(1) is as follows: “If on the day fixed for hearing after the suit has been called on for hearing outside the court, only the defendant attends and he admits no part of the claim, the suit shall be dismissed…

…The suit came up for hearing before a District Magistrate III. The appellant raised a preliminary objection that the suit was time - barred. This was upheld and the suit dismissed.…

…On hearing day 19.5.94, Mr. Muthusi appeared for Dr. Mutunga and applied for an adjournment. This was refused on grounds recorded, and the appeal was dismissed.…

…and cannot be reopened by the High Court; and that an error in the decision of the Court of Appeal cannot be said to be a violation of the right to a fair hearing.…

…The effect of such violations is to vitiate the trial to such extent that it amounts to no trial” [13] The appellant asserted that he was not accorded a fair hearing, nor was the hearing by the Court of Appeal conducted in…

…In this case, the hearing notice for today has been served.…

…We are informed by the clerk of the court, that when a notice of hearing is issued, it is not the registry’s practice to specify, in addition, that the application to strike out will be heard because, the appellant being…

…As does happen in such cases, the hearing of the arbitration proceedings was delayed.…

…In the circumstances the suit is now listed for hearing on 12th of October, 1992. Costs in the cause”. He further ordered that hearing notice be served on the appellant.…

…This was preferred during the course of the hearing and substituted for the original of attempted rape.…

…He was, we think, then disqualified from hearing the case and should have transferred it to another magistrate of competent jurisdiction.…

…About a month later, on 25th September, 1992, she lodged Civil Appeal No. 140 of 1992 which was fixed for hearing on 28th October, 1996.…

…NO. 219/1998 This matter is coming up for hearing on 24th May, 1999.…

…Thereafter the hearing was adjourned and it would appear from the record that Mr Mganga was unable to continue with the trial and the case was taken over by Mr Magolo, an Acting Resident Magistrate.…

…He first appears on record on 13th January 1988 when he fixed the hearing for 5th April 1988.…