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…Interested party (1) A person, with leave of the Court, may make an oral or written application to be joined as an interested party. (2) A court may on its own motion join any interested party to the proceedings before it…

…The Rules define an Interested Party as follows: ““interested party” means a person or entity that has an identifiable stake or legal interest or duty in the proceedings before the court but is not a party to the proceedings…

…The company concurrently with that reply filed an application seeking orders to prohibit the company from advertising the petition and the removal of the petition from the file of the proceedings or in the alternative that…

…It was common ground that after my dismissal of the application to remove the petition from the proceedings or stay or strike out the same, the company came along and paid the entire principal amount owed to the petitioner…

…She also claimed that no hearing is allowed in revision proceedings. With due respect we do not think Miss Nyaanga’s submissions are quite correct.…

…The procedure followed in commencing these proceedings, is in our view, proper.…

…At the commencement of the proceedings it was agreed by consent that issues of property be dealt with at a later stage either in the same proceedings or in fresh proceedings and hence this judgment deals with dissolution…

…In costs in matrimonial proceedings except where it is shown that she has sufficient separate estate. In this case it has not been shown that the respondent has separate estate.…

…This application before us is for stay of proceedings in the superior court pending the hearing and determination of an intended appeal. There is nothing however to stay under rule 5(2) of the Rules of this court. Mr.…

…DAMJI PATTNI.........................APPLICANT AND NASIR IBRAHIM ALI DINKY INTERNATIONAL SA WORLD DUTY FREE COMPANY LIMITED KENYA DUTY FREE COMPLEX................................RESPONDENTS (Application for stay of all proceedings…

…Akhaabi, advocate for the applicants, that he applied for certified copies of the proceedings and judgment on October 22, 1991 he stated from Bar that he had in fact applied for them on July 3, 1990.…

…There is, however, no satisfactory account of the time that has lapsed between January, 1992 up to December 1992 when copies of proceedings were collected. This is almost a whole year.…

…An application for copies of proceedings (copied to the other side) was made on 10 March, 1999 and these were collected on 8 May, 1998 . The last day, therefore, for the filing of the appeal, as Mrs.…

…After viewing the proceedings in July 1998 this application was not filed until, as I have already seen, 4th September, 1998. There is no explanation for this long delay.…

…53 Rule 1(3) Civil Procedure Rules (2) That the court do grant leave to the Applicant to apply for (i) An order of certiorari directed at the Respondents removing to this court for purposes of being quashed any purported proceedings…

…Discretion was exercised by the Respondent in the testing of the Applicant and it would be a futile exercise granting the Applicant leave to bring Judicial Review proceedings.…

…I order the respondent to pay the costs occasioned by these proceedings. Finally, I direct that a decree nisi do issue today, and the same to be made absolute within a period of one month from today.…

…It is the law that proceedings on a petition presented with an illegitimate object of putting pressure on the company would be stayed as an abuse of process.…

…53 Rule 1(3) Civil Procedure Rules (2) That the court do grant leave to the Applicant to apply for (i) An order of certiorari directed at the Respondents removing to this court for purposes of being quashed any purported proceedings…

…Discretion was exercised by the Respondent in the testing of the Applicant and it would be a futile exercise granting the Applicant leave to bring Judicial Review proceedings.…

…RESPONDENT RULING These proceedings are in respect of the estate of one Meshack Kangi Karemi who died in Nairobi on the 25th of July, 1985 at the age of seventy years.…

…Before the commencement of this hearing it was agreed that the proceedings were in accordance with section 70 of the Succession Act.…

…Applicant knew everything all along i.e. the debt, the judgment in a civil suit giving rise to these proceedings, notice, petition and the hearing.…

…That this is so was borne out by the company’s readiness as disclosed by its counsel at the beginning of the proceedings, to concede to the making of the winding-up order, on conditions which this court however found unacceptable…

…That the Consent Orders made in the presence and consent of Counsel are binding on all parties to the proceedings and cannot be varied or discharged unless done so by consent or unless they were obtained by fraud or collusion…

…I say so because Under Article 157(6) of the Constitution, it is within the mandate of the 2nd Respondent to institute criminal proceedings against any person including the Petitioner and on 17th July 2014 I ordered the Petitioner…

…When this happens, the receiver continues to act in exercise of his receivership powers but no longer as agent of the company, and the liquidator will watch over proceedings on behalf of other creditors of the company until…

…The Bankruptcy Act and the Bankruptcy Rules is a ------------------------------ code which governs proceedings in Bankruptcy with a little effort the counsel for the applicant could have found help in s 103 (1) of the Bankruptcy…