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Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…By Section 3 (1) of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act which confers jurisdiction on this Court: “The Court of Appeal shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine appeals from the courts of Kenya in cases in which an appeal…
…Jurisdiction is not the same thing as procedure. Procedural rules do not bestow jurisdiction”.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…_________ RULING OF THE COURT HANCOX, J A It has been held, repeatedly, by this court that failure to include the formally drawn up decree or order embodying the decision of the court appealed form, is a matter going to jurisdiction…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…CAUSE NO. 11 OF 1992) *************************** JUDGMENT OF THE COURT This appeal emanates from the judgment of the High Court of Kenya Admiralty Jurisdiction (Mbaluto, J.) dated 15th October, 1993 sitting at Mombasa.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…Sec 3A of the Act which replaces section 97, concerns the inherent jurisdiction. The originating summons can only be used as the omnibus carrying all inherent matters within it, if provision is so made.…
…Where a question of jurisdiction is concerned, this court must take it up, whether or not the point was raised below.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…cited various Indian cases in support of his proposition that where in a rule the procedure to be adopted for a remedy is excluded, except in relation to the procedure laid down in the rule; in other words, the Court has no jurisdiction…