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…The deceased was an advocate by profession. He died in a motor car accident.…

…Long association and cohabitation: these were, I presume, what her advocate at the trial, Mr.…

…But the applicant and his advocate managed to get to the venue of nomination before 1:00 p.m.…

…Gitobu Imanyara, Advocate who appeared for the Applicant. There are several annexures to the affidavit. I have perused them all.…

…The Plaintiff’s Advocate opposed the application for adjournment and the Court agreed with her that because the Defendant’s Advocate had had ample opportunity to withdraw, he had not done so and was not entitled to an adjournment…

…James Gikaria Plaintiff’s advocate – Nil Plaintiff – present Defendant’s Advocate – Nil Defendant – present Land Surveyor Sworn in English/Swahili My name is Peter Njoroge. I am a district surveyor Kirinyaga.…

…DEFENDANT RULING This suit was fixed by the plaintiff advocates for hearing today after which he served the defendants counsel with a hearing notice for today.…

…He failed to meet his advocate last Friday. I have perused the plaint. Plaint claims that in 1977 defendant closed the boundary between his land and plaintiffs land parcel no.…

…Before the application was heard inter partes the advocates for the respondent raised a preliminary objection to the application. It is this preliminary objection which is the subject matter of this ruling.…

…The advocate for the applicant/plaintiffs argued that indeed the courts had inherent jurisdiction at the level of the High Court.…

…By a letter dated 3rd April, 1996, the applicant asked the High Court for its proceedings and ruling to enable the applicant lodge an appeal.That letter was not copied to the respondent's advocates; nor was it copied to respondents…

…One Mwangi Mbuthia, the advocate for the applicant, has sworn a supporting affidavit and he explains the delay by saying that they were looking for some criminal proceedings which they thought were necessary to enable them…

…The application was supported by an affidavit of the appellant's then advocate and based solely on the ground of non-service. The learned Judge was satisfied that there was service which when shown to Mr.…

…In his submission the advocate for the defendant has urged the Court to ignore the conviction as the same was not pleaded. He has supported his argument with English authorities.…

…M/s Wetangula & Co Advocates for the defendant suggests a figure of Shs 80,000/- M/s KJ Kinyanjui a figure of Shs 170,000/-. Both have relied on case law.…

…in the record of appeal which was served upon the appellant, and in addition he was aware that this appeal had been filed from the correspondence exchanged between the deputy registrar of this court and the appellant’s advocate…

…which was copied to the respondent’s advocate.…

…The appellant through his advocate in opposing the application has deposed that the delay in setting the appeal down for hearing has been occasioned by the failure of the court to avail the proceedings of the trial court…

…is from 22nd January, 1997, when the related application was made, until 2nd July, 1997, was due to the difficulties experienced in tracing the court file in the High Court, and the funeral and burial arrangements that Advocate…

…Kibanga Advocate for Appellants Mr. Kilonzi Advocate for Respondents Court Clerk Muli ******************** RULING The dispute which originated from the lower court at Kitui (SPM.CC. 102/95) has arrived here on appeal.…

…In fact learned counsel said that the Plaintiff proudly stated (through her advocate Mr Ombaka) that the Defendant could not object to her plaint (Mr Oraro said “invalid” plaint) because it had not yet been served.…

…Is it possible that a trained advocate who is entitled to call himself professor and/or doctor assisted by two other trained advocates can put forward such erroneous arguments based on simple straightforward rules in respect…

…He was disatisfied with the Conviction and Sentence, he decided to appeal and to that end instructed an advocate (M/s Mainye) .…

…Chan Wai Tong v Li Ping Sum [1985] 2 WLR 396 Advocates Satish Gautama and K M Pandya for the appellant I T Inamdar for the respondent September 10, 1985, Kneller JA delivered the following Judgment.…

…much physical distress after the operations and the appellant’s advocate harped on the throbbing pain which the appellant has to endure about thrice a week.…

…Kiania Njau, advocate for the applicant. He adduced further reasons in support of the application during the hearing. Mr.…

…The respondent’s advocates are Daly and Figgs, advocates. They instructed them to represent their insured Peter Nyuttu in that action, which they did as shown by annexure A.…

…The defendants did not appear in court on the day of the hearing, though their advocate on record Messrs Macharia and Njore, advocates of Thika, were served with a hearing notice.…

…On this evidence the advocate for the plaintiff urged the court to adopt a monthly salary of Kshs.15,000/=, a multiplicant of 30 and a dependency ratio of 1/3.…