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…The Court, he submitted, has no jurisdiction supervising or pretending to supervise Parliament.…

…Accordingly, the second respondent cannot rely on section 29 of cap 6 aforesaid to oust the jurisdiction of this Court. 20.…

…The Court, he submitted, has no jurisdiction supervising or pretending to supervise Parliament.…

…Accordingly, the second respondent cannot rely on section 29 of cap 6 aforesaid to oust the jurisdiction of this Court. 20.…

…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.…

…Sub-section (2) thereof gives a District Magistrate’s Court jurisdiction to settle disputes and make declarations for the purposes of proceedings instituted under subsection (1)(b) of the Section.…

…It is obvious that the suit violates the aforesaid provisions which expressly confer jurisdiction upon a District Magistrate’s Court to determine disputes such as the present.…

…The defendant, through Ms BEN OCHIENG & CO ADVOCATES, filed a defence in which he pleaded that this court has no jurisdiction to hear and determine this suit or to grant the reliefs sought by the plaintiff pursuant to the…

…Kithi has submitted that the High Court, pursuant to the provisions of Section 60 of the Constitution, has unlimited civil jurisdiction and therefore that the suit is not incompetent.…

…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.…

…It was instructive that the Applicant filed the application when another Judge (Bwonwong’a J) had assumed jurisdiction in this court after the transfer of Chemitei J.…

…It was apparent that the Applicant wrongly presumed that since Chemitei J no longer exercised jurisdiction in this court, then another Judge would consider his application on the same issue which a ruling had already been…

…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.…

…It was submitted that he had no jurisdiction to let it go forth because he was functus officio quoad the injunction. He could not sit on appeal from his own refusal to grant one.…

…The applicant’s reply was that the trial judge had jurisdiction to preserve the subject matter of the dispute until the appeal was concluded. He knew all along the relevant facts and law.…

…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.…

…Although this was not a ground of appeal before this court, nevertheless this court has a duty to invoke its inherent jurisdiction in the matter and prevent any act that may be caused by such irregularity.…

…This is a case in which the court, in my view, have had power to act under its inherent jurisdiction if the specific provisions of Order 9 rule 10 did not apply. (underlining is mine).…

…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.…

…hearing the Petition which is a strange application not least because the court is not being asked directly to recuse itself but rather the honourable the Chief Justice is being called upon to intervene on some undefined jurisdiction…

…I have no jurisdiction to grant prayers 2 and 3 of the application dated 10th November, 2011 and filed on 11/11/2011 and in any event those prayers cannot have been directed to this court.…

…The learned judges went through the motions of citing all the cases quoted above and more and rested with the statement of law that the provisions of rule 15 were mandatory and the Court had no jurisdiction to extend the…

…the given circumstances be validly effected personally on the respondents, service of the petition by the petitioner was clearly beyond the stipulated ten days allowed for service under rule 15 which ten days we have no jurisdiction…

…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…

…voting process therein. e) There is no other Petition pending, and there have been no previous proceedings, in any court between the Petitioner and the Respondents over the same subject matter. f) This Honourable Court has jurisdiction…

…No. 9 of 2013 Charles Oigara Mogere vs Christopher Obure , Sitati J found that it is not open to a party to apply for a dual order of scrutiny and recount under the same breath as this would be beyond the jurisdiction of…