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…I ask for an adjournment.” Whereupon Mr. Ougo who appeared for the appellant herein in that court as he does in this Court is recorded to have said: “I am ready to proceed. I have one witness. Hearing to go on.”…

…The ruling of the superior court, Kuloba, J., in this regard read as follows: “As there is no reason for the absence of the Plaintiff or its representative or witness, an adjournment cannot be granted without a good reason…

…She has therefore applied for an adjournment to enable her to rectify the omission.…

…We think that, in the interest of justice we should accede to the application for adjournment, which we hereby grant.…

…in my view, this is justified for even if the application were made on August 19 in Nairobi and the auction was to be held on August 20 in Kisumu at 10 am, under order XXI rule 63: “(1) The court may, in its discretion, adjourn…

…any sale hereunder to a specified day and hour, and the officer conducting any such sale may in his discretion adjourn the sale, recording his reasons for such adjournment; Provided that where the sale is made in, or within…

…Instead, he sent Mr Momanyi, a junior Advocate, to say he was indisposed and to apply for an adjournment, which in the event was refused.…

…Mr Momanyi was granted a short adjournment to study the record and argue the appeal, but when the Court reconvened he confessed he was unable to be of any further assistance to the Court.…

…She adjourned the application to 26th April 1994 for hearing inter partes.…

…The quantum of damages for the loss of an eye was a matter of public importance in view of the widely disparate awards that have so far been given in Kenya, and that he should, at the very least, be given an adjournment to…

…On the morning of March 29, he wrote a letter which was filed in the court the same morning requesting that the case be adjourned, that it was copied to the plaintiff’s advocate.…

…As to the second ground, even if the letter of March 29, 1979 had been placed before the resident magistrate, it was a matter for the court’s discretion whether or not the case was to proceed ex parte or be adjourned.…

…The quantum of damages for the loss of an eye was a matter of public importance in view of the widely disparate awards that have so far been given in Kenya, and that he should, at the very least, be given an adjournment to…

…There was no application for an adjournment on behalf of the appellant nor was there any application to call any further evidence.…

…Upon this application being allowed the submissions continued, there having been no application for an adjournment or to call further evidence.…

…However, counsel then holding brief for the appellant’s counsel, Miss Mwangi, asked for an adjournment as Mr Ghadialy was engaged elsewhere and pointed out significantly, that the suit had been stayed by consent of both parties…

…Mr Ghadialy then sought an adjournment to enable him to file a defence which he had not been required to file in view of the fact that stay of proceedings had been ordered by consent within the context of section 6 of the…

…This course should obviate their taxation or a reference under rule 109 from the Deputy Registrar to a single judge of appeal, or an adjournment by him to the court, or application to the full court by any party dissatisfied…

…It does not appear the matter had been mentioned on March 13, 1984 but when the matter came up the advocate for appellants asked for an adjournment to April 17, 1984.…

…On April 10, 1985, the appellants appeared in person when the three motions were adjourned to be heard on April 19, 1985.…

…made it should be allowed if made in good faith provided costs can compensate the other side; that exact nature of proposed amendment sought ought to be formulated and be submitted to the other side and the court; that adjournment…

…have been the rule of conducts a hundred years ago to-day it is not the practice invariably to allow a defence which is wholly different from that pleaded to be raised by amendment at the end of trial even on terms that an adjournment…

…He should have done, if only to ask for an adjournment, if necessary, when it began to turn into a formal proof exercise.…

…On April 17, counsel for the plaintiff and counsel for the 1st defendant obtained a consent order for adjournment and for extension of the ex parte injunction order to April 22, 1986, then hearing was adjourned to April 28…

…It may well necessitate an adjournment which would be very lengthy given the commitments of Counsel and the congestion in the Courts which will probably be made worse by the impending Election Petitions.…