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Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…......................................................DEFENDANT R U L I N G The defendant/applicant has moved the court by way of Chamber Summons under Order 9A Rule 10 of the Civil Procedure Rules for an order that the ex-parte…
…judgment entered in default of defence on 19th March, 1996 be set aside and that she be allowed to file a defence.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
….............................................RESPONDENT RULING By her application dated 19th January, 1994 the second defendant applies for three orders namely that execution of decree herein against her be stayed, that ex…
…parte judgment entered against her on 28th March, 1984 be set aside and that she be allowed to file her defence.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
….… RESPONDENT RULING This is an application by the defendant in the suit that the ex-parte judgment entered against him on 25/2/88 be set aside on the grounds that he was never served with summons to enter appearance and…
…I allow the application, set aside the ex-parte judgment entered on 25/2/ 88 and the execution thereon.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
….… RESPONDENT RULING This is an application by the defendant in the suit that the ex-parte judgment entered against him on 25/2/88 be set aside on the grounds that he was never served with summons to enter appearance and…
…I allow the application, set aside the ex-parte judgment entered on 25/2/ 88 and the execution thereon.…
Division and case type: CivilMiscellaneous Application
…Consequently ex parte judgment in default of defence was entered on the application of the respondent, Diamond Trust Bank Kenya Ltd.…
…Subsequently the applicant moved the superior court for an order vacating the ex parte judgment.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…Is a court entitled to presume that service was effected and leave an ex parte judgment undisturbed even when there is stark evidence that the defendants did not have notice of the hearing.…
…Where however, as in this case, it comes to light later that the process was not delivered and there was no fault of an inexcusable nature to attach to the defendant it will be an affront to equity to have an ex parte judgment…
Division and case type: CivilMiscellaneous Application
…In the case of Magon v Ottoman Bank [1968] EA 156, Duffus JA, as he then was, in a case of setting aside ex parte judgment at page 158 letter F, stated: “Rule 10, by virtue of which the judgment has been set aside, does give…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…I am aware that under order 9A rule 10 and order 9B rule 8 the Court’s discretion to set aside a judgment entered ex parte is wide and unfettered but all the same that discretion must be exercised according to law in conformity…
…If that be correct then Ex Debito Justitiae the ex parte judgment must be set aside.…