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…Rule 1 (2) of Order 22 of the Civil Procedure Rules require at least seven days before the day of hearing the Garnishee order nisi shall be served on the Garnishee.…

…According to the affidavit on the Return of Service it is deponed that the Garnishee was served on October 17, 1990 for hearing on October 23, 1990.…

…The preliminary objection as I understand it is to the hearing the suit itself on the grounds that the plaintiff failed to challenge award delivered in Succession Cause No. 46 of 1981 in time or at all.…

…Civil Application number 620 of 1992 by consent of both parties the High Court ordered that Succession Cause No. 46 of 1981 for transferred to this court as registered as a succession cause and thereafter proceed to hearing…

…His complaint clearly is that the hearing of the case against him will not be within a reasonable time, and also that he shall not be afforded a fair hearing.…

…The applicant contends that two of those prerequisites exist in his case, i.e no hearing within a reasonable time, secondly not a fair hearing in the sense stated above.…

…of appeal and the appeal be admitted of time at the High Court of Kenya at Nakuru ( Masime J ) dated December 3, 1983 In High Court Civil Case No 235 of 1982 RULING The applicant was duly served with the notice for the hearing…

…The application was then stood over to this morning hoping that in the meantime the applicant would make enquiries so as to be notified of this morning’s hearing. There is no appearance again today.…

…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.…

…MCCR/E.034 of 2020, pending the hearing and determination of this revision. 3) To make an order to call for and examine the record of the proceedings in the Chief Magistrate’s court at JKIANairobi in Criminal Case No.…

…Submissions that are common place in trials or hearing of appeals are undesirable.…

…grounds under which the application was made are that the accused and all the witnesses are residents of Eldoret and it would be unduly expensive for them to keep on traveling to Naivasha whenever the case comes up for hearing…

…It would not be in the interest of justice to have the accused and witnesses travel long distances for the hearing of the case. That would be expensive and may also cause delay in the finalisation of the matter.…

…Summons for directions is a step in the suit in preparation for the hearing of the suit.…

…It is in directions given on a summons that the court states where the suit will be heard, the length of the hearing and the issues to be canvassed during the hearing. Hence the statement I rule 5 (b) in the High Court.…

…In making reference to Constitutional Petition No. 50 of 2020, he indicated that it came up for hearing on 28th July, 2020 before Judge E.…

…It was submitted that the lower court case came up for hearing on 29th July, 2020 but Mr.…

…The motion first came for a hearing on 25th April, 1989. Mr Mburu appeared for the applicant, while Mr Paul Kiambo appeared for the respondent, the defendant in the action.…

…He was allowed time up to 4th May, 1989, when the application next came for a hearing. He came up with a very recent English case of Rush & Tompkins Ltd v Greater London Council and Another [1988] 3 All ER 737.…

…a defendant or a defendant’s agent has been convicted by a Court of law such defendant would not be right to say that he has been ambushed or taken by surprise when such conviction is introduced and provoked during the hearing…

…Plaintiff still complains of pains on shoulders, chest and loss of hearing in right ear. Doing the best I can I would assess general damages at Shs 125,000/-.…

…restraining the Defendant/Respondent, by himself, his servants or agents from alienating, wasting and/or in any other way interfering with the Plaintiff’s quiet enjoyment of the Plot known as Ngong Township/1/41 pending the hearing…

…The validity or otherwise of the Applicant’s title is an issue for the main hearing and should not concern the Court at this stage.…

…different advocate the applicant filed an application under a certificate of urgency seeking orders that the respondent be restrained from dealing with the suit land in any manner, taking possession, included, pending the hearing…

…Application for review being of course the main application in that if granted there would be no need for hearing the application for eviction or the application for enlarging of time.…

…The appellant did not wish to be present during the hearing of this appeal.…

…Her failure to consider in her judgment the fact that the appellant had refunded the money, he allegedly unlawfully obtained long before the case came for a hearing did not in our view cause any prejudice to the appellant…

…Originally as the plaint stood, Coast Hauliers were not even a party to the suit and it was only during the course of the hearing that Mr Khanna who appeared for the then sole plaintiff ie Highway carriers Ltd realised that…

…He has not even appeared at the hearing. www.kenyalawreports.or.ke Nevertheless this court does not dispense justice in the abstract. The justice it dispenses must be in accordance with the law.…

…The Respondent’s Advocate did not attend court despite service with the hearing notice.…

…The Defendant’s Advocate did not appear for the hearing of the application. The Court of Appeal held: “(2).…

…This application was not heard and on 18.5.2000 the counsels informed the court that they had agreed to go on with the case without hearing this application.…

…In the course of the hearing I was told that most of the plaintiffs are still working although some had left the company.…

…One of the basic issues that will stand to be decided when the main suit finally comes to hearing is whether the meetings of the 20th and 30th April, 1990 were valid.…

…It must be however, be borne in mind that the hearing was not the hearing of the main. What the applicants needed to establish among others being that they have a prima facie case with a probability of success.…

…The balance of the claim of Kshs 23,590,400.00 be determined upon the hearing of the notice of motion dated 4/5/98. 4. Costs of today’s application be in the cause. 5. Hearing on 24/7/98 of the application dated 4/5/98.…

…That there be a stay of execution of the court’s judgment pending the hearing of this application. 3.…