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…There was no amendment to these Regulations of 1998. On 1st July 2002 the Legal Notice 66 was revoked under Legal Notice 118 of 2002. Legal Notice 66/02 which the Applicant intends to rely upon is non existent.…

…It is correct that this defence was raised for the first time when the trial was about to commence, but when I allowed the amendment to the defence Mr Malik was quite content to proceed without seeking an adjournment: if…

…Amendment) Act (Act No. 6, 2009), Order XXXIX Rules 1, 2, 3 and 9, Order V Rule 17 (1) of the Civil Procedure Rules, and Section 3A of the Civil Procedure Act.…

…And sub-section 3 of this section provides that: “The charge framed by the magistrate under subsection (2) may be in the same terms as the information furnished by the prosecution or may be an amendment thereof.”…

…In this regard, Mr Kariuki and Dr Khaminwa argued that the word framed requires the magistrate to write out a charge which could be in the same words as the one in the information or an amendment thereof.…

…This was long before the recent amendment to the Constitution. In the case of the 1st accused the officer who took the statement at Nyeri was Chief Inspector Githitho.…