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…This Court held that notwithstanding the trial judge’s wide discretion in the matter: “….it is impossible to ascertain the reasons which compelled the judge to award interest from the date of filing suit and this leads us…

…to the inevitable conclusion that the learned judge wrongly exercised his discretion” We have in the present appeal, an analogous situation where we cannot ascertain the reasons which compelled the learned judge, without…

…The Court in considering the application, exercises unfettered discretion. But like all such discretions, the Court must exercise the discretion judicially and not upon its own whims or capriciously.…

…In order to ensure that the discretion is exercised judicially, there are certain well settled principles that through many decided cases, have been accepted as guidelines to be followed by the courts.…

…Khaminwa took exception to the several errors made by counsel and argued that the applicant was not deserving of the exercise of this court's discretion, which discretion a single judge of this court has, subject only to…

…Mr Khaminwa also referred us to the ruling of Hancox JA in NAI 56/83 Githere v Kimungu in which the applicant sought the exercise of the court’s discretion to extend time to file both notices of appeal and for instituting…

…There is no specific ground of appeal against this but we allowed Mr Ngatia to address us on the matter as we felt that the judge had wrongly exercised his discretion by ordering the appellants to pay the Mayor’s costs.…