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…In the application before me they have raised the issue of the jurisdiction to entertain both the suit and the application relying on the arbitration clause.…

…This Court has, therefore, the jurisdiction to handle this case. I now turn to the merits of the application. The claim is liquidated.…

…It becomes clear that this was outside the monetary jurisdiction of the trial court.…

…None of the counsels appearing here and the court below pointed out the question of jurisdiction to the learned trial magistrate.…

…The appellant pleaded that the court had no jurisdiction to try the case but he was overruled by the resident magistrate.…

…In this instant case the 1st defendant society bought Karanjee farm and presumably had jurisdiction to subdivide it and allocate the resultant plots to its members.…

…He must also demonstrate that this court has jurisdiction to entertain the proceedings. 3.…

…In the Tribunal, he can challenge its jurisdiction.…

…The advocate for the applicant/plaintiffs argued that indeed the courts had inherent jurisdiction at the level of the High Court.…

…It is to this jurisdiction that the defendants stated that this court has no powers to entertain. The plaintiff, they claim have come first to the wrong court.…

…In opposition of the said application the defendant’s advocate has taken a preliminary point that the court has no jurisdiction to try this suit as it is instituted prematurely and in contravention of the Architects and Quanitity…

…The defendant’s advocate in the course of his submission did not argue that the court had no jurisdiction although it is there in his written statement of opposition to the substantive application.…

…Section 8(1) of the Act enjoins that High Court shall not in the exercise of its civil or criminal jurisdiction issue any order of prerogative writs of mandamus prohibition or certiorari.…

…Mr Mwenesi urges me to exercise my jurisdiction under o 49 r 5 whereby I am empowered to enlarge time.…

…Landlord & Tenant (Shops, Hotels and Catering Establishments) Act, Cap 301, Laws of Kenya (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) The material portion of the Act reads: 12(1) “A Tribunal shall in relation to its area of jurisdiction…

…“Court” is defined in the Civil Procedure Act as the High Court or a subordinate Court, acting in the exercise of its civil jurisdiction. A Tribunal is not a subordinate court.…

…open to controversy in the early suit (ie that the subject matter in dispute is the same), either actually or constructively; (b) that the same subject matter in dispute now came in question before a Court of competent jurisdiction…

…That is to say, there I showed the conditions of applying the doctrine of res judicata to be (a) Identity of the matter in issue; (b) Identity of the parties; (c) Sameness of title; (d) Concurrence of jurisdiction; (e) Finality…

…Firstly, section 28 confers upon this court the jurisdiction to extend such responsibility.…

…Secondly the Constitution of Kenya also confers upon this court unlimited original jurisdiction in all matters both of a civil and criminal nature.…

…This Court lacks jurisdiction to rule on it in the manner prayed for.…

…I cannot revisit the issue regard being had of the fact that him and I have concurrent jurisdiction. The submissions by applicant’s counsel on the issue are superfluous.…

…This Court lacks jurisdiction to rule on it in the manner prayed for.…

…I cannot revisit the issue regard being had of the fact that him and I have concurrent jurisdiction. The submissions by applicant’s counsel on the issue are superfluous.…

…Kabiru Karanja & 4 others read together with Section 76 of Co-operative Societies Act 1997 would show that this court has no jurisdiction to entertain disputes of this nature.…

…The order that this being a boundary dispute court had no jurisdiction until the Land Registrar had determined the boundaries pursuant to s. 21(2) of the Registered land Act.…

…This Court lacks jurisdiction to rule on it in the manner prayed for.…

…I cannot revisit the issue regard being had of the fact that him and I have concurrent jurisdiction. The submissions by applicant’s counsel on the issue are superfluous.…

…They had no jurisdiction to sit in judgment respecting the suit land.…

…But this jurisdiction is a delicate one which will only be exercised with great caution and only in the clearest of cases.…

…His conclusion was based on the fact that he was acquitted by a Court of competent jurisdiction of the offence of theft of the tyre and was therefore completely exonerated from blame.…

…Mr Sampson also quoted from Lee vs Showman’s Guild of Great Britain [1976] 1 All ER 1175 in which it was held that the courts have jurisdiction to examine any decision of a domestic tribunal which involved a question of law…

…For myself, I should be very slow to make any such order on motion, though in a clear and compelling case there is no doubt jurisdiction to do so. I do not think that this is a case of that sort.…