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…Each client has a separate retainer relationship with the common advocate.…

…This principle applies equally where an advocate acts for two or more clients in the same transaction or subject matter because the retainer is specic between the individual client and the common advocate.…

…Application No. 796 of 1997) ****************************** R U L I N G The applicant, Moses Kipngetich Kurgat is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya.…

…The ruling he alludes to had the effect of, if not stayed confirmning his suspension from the roll of advocates as decided by the Disciplinary Committee of the Law Society of Kenya on the 22nd day of August, 1997.…

…The Application is supported by an affidavit sworn by Wilfred Nyamu, an advocate of the High Court of Kenya and seized with the conduct of the matter on behalf of the Petitioner. 3.…

…Nyamu was unavailable and the advocate he had instructed to hold his brief had several matters that had earlier been listed before other Courts, and he had therefore been late to attend to this matter before this Court. 5…

…Ongele of Ongele and Company Advocates of Kisumu. The applicant swears that he instructed Mr.…

…WAINAINA (NO 3) [1982] KLR 33, LAW, J.A held that – “An advocate’s bona fide mistake, but not inordinate delay on the advocate’s part, may amount to sufficient cause …… The only delay was due to the advocate’s bona fide but…

…The plaintiffs also paid shs.1,000 to the advocate who prepared the sale agreement. The defendant later changed his mind and so he could not allow the plaintiffs to utilize this land.…

…Akhaabi, advocate for the applicants, that he applied for certified copies of the proceedings and judgment on October 22, 1991 he stated from Bar that he had in fact applied for them on July 3, 1990.…

…Their advocate, Mr Chege, put forward submissions in support of the application. There was no time for Mr Agina for the respondents to reply. So the matter was put off to another day.…

…Indeed s 364 (2) of the Criminal Procedure Code gives the accused person the right of being heard either personally or by an advocate in his own defence before any order to his prejudice is made under the section.…

…The appellant claimed, by his plaint, that the second respondent (who was served but failed to enter appearance as a result of which judgment was entered against him as prayed on the application of the advocate for the plaintiff…

…Karuri in turn filed suit against Ndoo and his employee, Kituo, the bus driver, for damages arising out of Kituo’s negligence but later, Karuri’s advocate withdrew it for reasons which were not vouchsafed to this court.…