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Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…The appellant shall be presented before another magistrate of competent jurisdiction for retrial forthwith. Order accordingly Dated and delivered at Nairobi this 21st day of December, 1998. A.MBOGHOLI MSAGHA JUDGE…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…The appellant be allowed to go out of the jurisdiction of the court. And b.…
…pursuant to his appellate jurisdiction were to be deemed as orders made pursuant to his appellate jurisdiction and a second appeal to the Court of Appeal lay from such orders.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…This matter raises the question whether the court has jurisdiction to entertain it.…
…We were much pressed by Mr Adala for the respondent to invoke the jurisdiction under rule 1(3) of the rules of this court. We do not consider it necessary to encumber this ruling citation of numerous authorities.…
Division and case type: CivilMiscellaneous Application
…He must also demonstrate that this court has jurisdiction to entertain the proceedings. 3.…
…In the Tribunal, he can challenge its jurisdiction.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…So the present appeal to us is on sentence on which we would normally have no jurisdiction if the sentence on which we would normally have no jurisdiction if the sentence is lawful.…
…To this extent that sentence was unlawful and this gives us jurisdiction to deal with the matter. We therefore set aside the strokes imposed for housebreaking in Criminal Case NO 989/88.…
Division and case type: CivilMiscellaneous Application
…Nagpal, for the Respondent to this application, has taken preliminary objection which, he says, goes to the jurisdiction of this court.…
…1982, where the issue of damages could not in any event, have been determined on an Originating Summons, and James Njoro Kibutiri v Eliud Njau Kibutiri, Civil Appeal 30 of 1982 where LAW JA said that the High court had no jurisdiction…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…Notwithstanding the provisions 4 of the said Code, I am of the view that a court which has no power to impose a minim sentence required by the penal provisions cannot have jurisdiction to try and determine the offence under…
…The conviction by Court without jurisdiction is a nullity and so is sentence. Both are quashed. The appellant be taken forthwith before a court of competent jurisdiction for a fresh trial.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…S 30, under which the Appellant is charged relates to the jurisdiction of the Tribunal and does not create an offence. Probably the intention was to charge under S 29.…
…Whilst Opidi comes from a neighbouring jurisdiction, the argument in it is very powerful, and I find difficulty in departing from it. The result therefore is that the error in the charge in this case is incurable.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…Section 200 of the Criminal Procedure Code enacts : (a) Subject to subsection (3), where a magistrate, after having heard and recorded the whole or part of the evidence in a trial, ceases to exercise jurisdiction therein…
…and is succeeded by another magistrate who has and exercises that jurisdiction, the succeeding magistrate may : Deliver a judgment that has been written and signed but not delivered by his predecessor; or Where judgment has…
Division and case type: CivilMiscellaneous Application
…Mr Justice Porter struck out the summons on May 3, 1984 because it had not been filed in any suit and therefore he held he had no jurisdiction.…
…There was want of jurisdiction and I am satisfied that my order was right. I would refuse to review it even if I were satisfied that, this was a proper application for review.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…As we explained to Mr Otumba, we have no jurisdiction to entertain ground 3 of the memorandum of appeal, which was against the sentence.…
…Even if it were possible for us to ascertain to whom the vehicle KWL 653 belonged we would have no jurisdiction to make any order in respect of its destination.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…It has been said many times by this Court that we have no inherent jurisdiction, and that we can only hear an appeal if the right thereof is conferred by statute.…
…As section 361 is specifically stated not to apply to a decision such as the one appealed from in this case, it follows that we have no jurisdiction to entertain these appeals.…
Division and case type: CRIMINAL DIVISIONCriminal Appeal
…It has been said many times by this Court that we have no inherent jurisdiction, and that we can only hear an appeal if the right thereof is conferred by statute.…
…As section 361 is specifically stated not to apply to a decision such as the one appealed from in this case, it follows that we have no jurisdiction to entertain these appeals.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…It has been said many times by this Court that we have no inherent jurisdiction, and that we can only hear an appeal if the right thereof is conferred by statute.…
…As section 361 is specifically stated not to apply to a decision such as the one appealed from in this case, it follows that we have no jurisdiction to entertain these appeals.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…It has been said many times by this Court that we have no inherent jurisdiction, and that we can only hear an appeal if the right thereof is conferred by statute.…
…As section 361 is specifically stated not to apply to a decision such as the one appealed from in this case, it follows that we have no jurisdiction to entertain these appeals.…
Division and case type: CivilMiscellaneous Application
…In discharging that primary duty a land control body must act judicially and within its jurisdiction, and is subject to the controlling jurisdiction of the High Court exercised through a writ of certiorari.…
…It will consider the following grounds: (a) Want or excess of jurisdiction; (b) denial of natural justice; (c) errors on the face of the record.…
Division and case type: CivilMiscellaneous Application
…Section 8(1) of the Act enjoins that High Court shall not in the exercise of its civil or criminal jurisdiction issue any order of prerogative writs of mandamus prohibition or certiorari.…
…Mr Mwenesi urges me to exercise my jurisdiction under o 49 r 5 whereby I am empowered to enlarge time.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…The grounds of appeal in a second appeal should be confined to points of law and the Court of Appeal on such an appeal has no jurisdiction to review a sentence on the ground that it is severe. 4.…
…This court has no jurisdiction to review a sentence on second appeal on the grounds of severity.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…This court has no jurisdiction to review a sentence on second appeal on the grounds of severity.…
…We have no jurisdiction to review the sentence. Adriano's appeal are also dismissed. The High Court made tow criticisms of the trial with which we fully agree.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…The issue of identification raised by the appellant took away his appeal from the provisions of section 352(2) and the learned Judge had no jurisdiction to summarily dismiss the appeal under that section.…