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…The application for adjournment was prompted by my pointing out to Mr.…

…Kiage for the respondent opposed the application for adjournment and sought striking out of the present application on the ground that the same is premature and hence incompetent. Mr.…

…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.…

…On that day the late Mr Githieya appeared for the plaintiff and Mr Jiwaji for the defendant, when Mr Jiwaji applied for an adjournment on the ground that he had been served with replying affidavit only a day before.…

…The adjournment was granted and the matter stood over generally. After being thus stood over generally nobody seems to have taken any other action thereon.…

…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.…

…Njoroge then made an application for adjournment on two main grounds:- 1.…

…Gikandi argued that any adjournment beyond that would render his clients application nugatory.He said that the application must be heard and a ruling given before 7.01.10 since the CoE must present their report to the 3rdRespondent…

…DEPUTY REGISTRAR HIGH COURT – CIVIL MOMBASA” Upon adjournment at the last appearance of the matter in court, I carefully looked through the voluminous court file but did not find any Notice of withdrawal or discontinuance…

…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.…

…The latter’s application for adjournment to enable him to file grounds of opposition and an affidavit in reply to that in support of the application was refused for reasons which appear in an earlier ruling.…

…In any case as I have said counsel did not apply for adjournment on the ground that he had not been given enough notice. That argument has only been advanced in this appeal.…

…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…

…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…

…An application was made for an adjournment so that the defence could call him. The application was disallowed; so to that the failure to call him cannot be attributed to any deliberate withholding of a witness.…

…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…