Search court decisions

…There cannot be any sibling relationship as such between a limited liability company and a partnership firm.…

…In any event it is incorrect and a complete misdescription to describe a limited liability company as “a firm”.…

…“Without Prejudice” meant without admission of liability but here there was express admission of liability and a proposal for payment.…

…It preceded the defence which makes total denial of liability. There is however an express admission of the debt in the letter save for interest charged and there is a proposal for payment by specied instalments.…

…The question of res IPSaLoquitus also arose in the case of Msuri Muhiddin v Nazzar Bin Saif (1960) E A 201 and there the question of what the defendant should do in order to avoid liability on a presumption of negligence…

…Sir Alistain Forbes V. – as he then was – said at page 207:- “In light of the dicta set out I accept (counsel for the respondents) proposition that the respondents can avoid liability if they can show either that there was…

…The documents filed on behalf of the petitioner in response to the application have not shown any admission of liability on behalf of the company. Invoices alone do not prove any indebtedness.…

…As the goods were supplied in 1996 to 1997, the company does not show liability has ever been disputed. In the application and affidavit, they do not show they are prepared to return the goods.…

…On receipt of same, the company through its advocates denied liability and asked for particulars as to how the debt was incurred.…

…The company opposes the petition and liability on the grounds that it never requested for such services. At the hearing, Mr Ngunjiri advanced a number of arguments against the continuation of the petition.…

…Paragraph 7 states:- "Despite written demand having been made andnotice of intention to sue having been given,the Defendant has failed to admit liability orto pay damages to the Plaintiff."…

…The Plaintiff never mentioned such notice nor did he produce such documents by way of letters or notices written to the Defendant that they were requested to admit liability or be sued.…

…I note that the defence purported to deny that the defendant was criminally responsible for the plaintiff being maimed, but I take it that such denial is intended to and does not include any civil liability,” an assault being…

…All these matters, I regret to say, are so unsatisfactory, that it leads me to the conclusion that if the judge had correctly directed himself he would inevitably have reached a different finding on liability from that to…

…After considering the evidence offered I find that the liability is on 100% basis. There being no contradictory evidence on loss of expectation of life the deceased was 51 at time of death and was due to retire at 55.…

…The defendant appeared and have filed a written statement of defence denying liability.…

…This petition was filed by Trio Holdings Ltd (hereinafter called the Creditor ) on 19th October, 1988 seeking that Magnum International Ltd a limited liability company registered in Kenya under the Companies Act (Cap 486)…

…It is submitted that this petition comes under section 221(1) (iii) as the petitioner was a contingent creditor due to the only and it is only the court that may assess the amount of prospective liability as to its quantum…

…In a defence filed in this Court on 9th November, 1989 the defendant denied liability and counter-claimed that the plaintiff do pay Kshs 103,624.45 being the balance of the sum due and owing and in connection with the chattel…

…section 26A of the Penal Code, ordered deported under section 43 of this Act, persons whose citizenship has not been established, deportees in transit, and persons denied entry awaiting return and who are not under carrier liability…