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…As stated in Constitutional and Administrative Law, ECS Wade and AW Bradley, (10th Edn, 1985 pp 660 - 661): “An injunction may be claimed against a public authority or official, to restrain unlawful acts which are threatened…

…or are being threatened, for example to restrain unlawful interference with private rights or to restrain ultra vires action such as improper expenditure of local funds”.…

…By a plaint filed on 9th July, 1987 the plaintiffs pray for the reliefs set out afore and add a prayer for damages for unlawful sale and purported disposal of the plaintiffs’ property.…

…Further still, if the sale was unlawful the plaintiffs pray for damages arising thereunder.…

…By doing so I believe I am satisfying 3 of Mr Munenes claims which he categorized as follows:- (1) Unlawful acquisition of LR 219/16 (2) Trespass (3) Breach of an agreement to offer to exchange land for Land Acquired.…

…Particulars of this claim which is alleged to have arisen from the unlawful refusal or neglect of the defendants to approve of the plaintiffs development plans for the said plot, are set out in Paragraph 10 of the Amended…

…In the suit he claimed general damages, costs of the suit and such other relief the honourable Court may deem fit to grant after complaining in vain that the defendant had unlawfully terminated the hire purchase agreement…

…Nevertheless, by the time this vehicle was re-possessed the plaintiff had paid up to 215,884.10 and according to him he had as less as 70,000/- to pay which if this unlawful repossession had not occurred he could have completed…

…As a result the plaintiff suffered unlawful imprisonment with mental torture and physical suffering for one full year – after serving the lawful imprisonment period.…

…In the case of AttorneyGeneralvsOluoch [1972] EA 392, claims of damages were brought against two police officers and two magistrates for unlawful confinement and false imprisonment.…

…In my ruling aforesaid, I found that the distress was unlawful and that possession was equally unlawful. I believe I was right. However, the applicant has an undoubted right of appeal. This is not the last court.…

…It is deponed that the applicants staged a strike in the college, incited other students to join the unlawful strike and so undermined the college authority.…

…And that on the same date, the applicants staged an unlawful strike and that as a result the terminal examinations for the first and second year students had to be postponed.…

…Though the parties did not frame any issues it is clear from the pleadings that the two major issues for determination by this court are: (i) Whether the alleged arrest and imprisonment of the plaintiff was unlawful and the…

…Was the alleged arrest and imprisonment of the plaintiff unlawful and the prosecution that followed malicious?…

…Interlocutory judgment was entered for the plaintiff for a declaration that the seizure and impounding of the plaintiff’s motor vehicle registration No KUT 264 by the defendant was unlawful and without due process.…

…The result is that the defendant is regarded to have admitted it wrongfully, unlawfully and without due process of the law impounded the plaintiff’s motor vehicle from a parking lot in the city.…

…The plaintiffs who were not only members of the Chamber but also of the Governing Council, claim in their plaint that they were unlawfully expelled from the Chamber by its Governing Council at its meeting held on 16.2.90…

…In the alternative, the plaintiffs sought damages for their unlawful expulsion.…

…She contends that her employment was unlawful and in breach of her contract of service with the Defendant. She further contends that the Defendant defamed her in various notes and memoranda addressed to her.…

…From what I have outlined above, I hold the view that what the Defendant did was arbitrary and unlawful.…

…264; Freem KB 137; 30 digest 501, 1594), according to which “A dispensation or licence property passeth no interest, nor alters or transfers property in anything but only makes an action lawful which without it had been unlawful…

…In the result I dismiss prayer ‘c’ of the plaint in respect of the alleged “unlawful premature termination of the agreement” with costs. Delivered this 6th day of April, 1989, RAUF JUDGE…

…The appellant asserted that the threatened eviction against him was unlawful since he went into possession of the suit premises pursuant to an agreement of sale and not otherwise and had all along been ready and willing to…

…The appellant asserted that the threatened eviction against him was unlawful since he went into possession of the suit premises pursuant to an agreement of sale and not otherwise and had all along been ready and willing to…

…As the termination of Plaintiff’s services from 30.12.83 was unlawful and he was reinstated on 1.1.86, the Defendant Corporation was bound to pay to him his salary, allowances and other benefits for these two (2) years and…

…It will have been gathered from the foregoing, that Mr Muthike (the Plaintiff) had been employed by the Defendant Corporation as a Senior Administration Officer until 31st December, 1983 when the Defendant Corporation unlawfully…

…In the plaint she prays for an injunction, an order that the 2nd (plaintiff / defendant (respondent ) all house goods seized, and general damages for trespass and unlawful detention of the goods.…

…If no rent was owing at the time of distress then the levying of distress would be unlawful or at least excessive and court should stop the sale of the seized goods pending the determination of the lawfulness or otherwise…

…only begetter of this result because had it dismissed Oloo for refusing a transfer in 1977 to Kakamega, at the same rank and salary, and so forth, and he was aggrieved, then he would have had to litigate for damages for unlawful…

…dismissal and to prove it was unlawful, producing the documents about the health of his daughter, and his own, and the need to be right here in Nairobi next door to their irreplaceable medical experts, and then, by the time…

…The learned judge was not impressed by the demeanor of the appellant in the witness box and consequently did not find it necessary to go into the issue of unlawful dismissal on account of the appellant’s benefits having been…

…Her case is that she is the lawful wife of the 1st Defendant under Taita Customary Law, that the intended marriage between the defendants is unlawful, illegal and void as being contrary to the provisions of the Marriage Act…