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…A final judgment of a competent Court in any criminal proceedings which declares any person to be guilty of a criminal offence shall, after the expiry of the time limited for an appeal against such judgment or after the date…

…complains about the learned judge awarding a sum of shs.80,000/= under the Law Reform Act when the respondent had not taken out letters of administration for the estate of her deceased husband at the time she instituted the proceedings…

…It also appears from a not very satisfactory record of appeal that proceedings to have the 1st respondent committed to civil jail for contempt were instituted at some stage and in consequence he was ordered by the Court to…

…question of inordinate delay we have earlier given a history of events which tend to show that in 1980 when the 2nd respondent, who first came to learn of the suit, when she was being evicted in consequence of execution proceedings…

…Order 75, (the Order), the Supreme Court Practice, 1988 of England had provided for admiralty proceedings.…

…filed its grounds of opposition and took out a motion on notice under sections 3A, 6 and 7 of the Civil Procedure Act and Order VI rule 13 (1)(a) and (d) of the Civil Procedure Rules for, inter alia, an order of (a) stay of proceedings…

…There can be no doubt, that generally an advocate is 'authorized to act as his client's agent in all matters not falling within an exception which may reasonably be expected to arise for decision in the course of the proceedings…

…But a Notice of Appointment of Advocates is generally filed by advocates to enable them to conduct interlocutory proceedings on behalf of their client(s) prior to service of summons.…

…There was no order by which the two matters were consolidated and so far as we can tell, the record for the miscellaneous matter was not placed before the Judge as it does not form part of the record of proceedings on which…

…The First respondent led a notice of appeal and applied for the proceedings in order to le the intended appeal. The second respondent did nothing on the decision. 4.…

…, although it was duly stamped after the institution of proceedings.…

…book is that powers of the court to allow amendment is to determine the true, substantive merits of the case; amendments should be timeously applied for; power to so amend can be exercised by the court at any stage of the proceedings…

…There will be cases in which justice will be better served by allowing the consequences of the negligence of the lawyers to fall on their own heads rather than by allowing an amendment at a very late stage of proceedings.…

…Having regard to this evidence, it is significant that in the Criminal Proceedings (exhibit 1) against Amrik Singh, the man is not only referred to as Singh, which title in my experience is used only by Sikhs in this country…

…Properties Ltd and in the matter of a complaint by Electro Service Equipment Ltd and the Business Premises Rent Tribunal; and (d) As a result of these declarations the order of the resident magistrate, Kitale on execution proceedings…

…So much for the pleadings, the correspondence, the proceedings in the High Court and the submissions of the advocates for the parties. The relevant law follows.…