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…A few comments at this stage on service of summons by registered post, on corporations, would be apt.…

…Order 5 Rule 2 (b) of the Civil Procedure Rules (service of summons on Corporations) to provide for, in the first instance, personal service on relevant officer(s) of the Corporation.…

…APPEAL NO. 226 OF 1995) ************ RULING OF THE COURT The applicant was convicted after a trial of seven counts of stealing by a person employed in the public service, contrary to s.280 of the Penal Code and a further…

…He had no history of bad health, that is to say, he was a healthy individual.He would have retired, in the ordinary course of events, at the age of 55 from his job as a teacher in the employ of Teachers Service Commission…

…Upon reaching the retirement age set by the Teachers Service Commission he might have taken up a teaching job at a private school. There was no evidence that he would not have worked after the age of 55.…

…It being alleged that there was no valid appearance entered after due service of the summons, the respondent applied for and obtained that which was described as interlocutory judgment on March 22, 1979 and on May 7, 1979…

…Mead J refused to set aside these two judgments (on application before him on the ground of lack of service) on October 23, 1981, and it is from his decision that the substantive appeal is brought.…

…amendment to rule 23, (by Legal Notice 14 of 1983 dated January 28, 1983), is that a winding up petition shall be advertised not less than seven days after service and at least seven days before the hearing, in the manner…

…It was, I think, common ground that at the time the petition was advertised, it did not comply with rule 23 as it was after the 1983 amendment, which requires advertisement not less than seven days after its service on the…

…This court in Kenya Bus Services vs Mavende (1991) 2 KAR 232 said so (per Omolo Ag. J.A.) at page 235.…

…Again in a similar vein this court said in the case of Coast Bus Service Ltd. vs Sisco & Murunga Danii & 3 Others Civil Appeal No. 192 of 1992 (unreported; "We would restate the position special damages must be pleaded with…

…The address for service for the appellants is care of Mohamed & Muigai Advocates, Hazina Towers, P O Box 61323, Nairobi.…