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…Reported by Kevin Kakai Judicial review - certiorari - leave to apply for certiorari - time within which application for leave should be made - whether the six-month limitation period prescribed under section 9(3) of the…

…Law Reform Act for filing an application for leave to apply for an order of certiorari was mandatory and absolute - whether the court had jurisdiction to enlarge time for filing an application for leave to apply for certiorari…

…Section 8(1) of the Act enjoins that High Court shall not in the exercise of its civil or criminal jurisdiction issue any order of prerogative writs of mandamus prohibition or certiorari.…

…It merely deleted the existing rule 53 according to which no application for an order of mandamus prohibition or certiorari may be made unless leave therefore has been granted.…

…He therefore applied, on the 6th day of December, 1982, for leave to apply for an Order of Certiorari to remove into the superior court for the purpose of quashing the said order of the Minister which order was made by the…

…Leave shall not be granted to apply for an order of certiorari to remove any judgment, order, decree, conviction or other proceeding for the purpose of it being quashed, unless the application for leave is made not later…

…Jaffer, informed the court that the applicant will not urge for the Order of Mandamus as the Order for Certiorari, if granted will serve the applicant's purposes.…

…There was therefore, according to them, nothing upon which an Order of Certiorari could be made. They therefore sought for the dismissal of the applicant's application with costs.…

…Procedure Rules in that it fails to distinguish between averments of knowledge and belief or grounds and source of the same, thirdly, that quashing the Commissioner’s action ought to be by a Judicial Review application for certiorari…

…(MILIMANI LAW COURTS) JUDICIAL REVIEW MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATION E167 OF 2025 RE ABURILI, J DECEMBER 22, 2025 IN THE MATTER OF:- AN APPLICATION BY HUSSEIN MOHAMED ADAN FOR LEAVE TO APPLY FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW AND ORDERS OF CERTIORARI…

…The only form of judicial review which would have been available to the 1st respondent in the circumstances would have been certiorari.…

…The types of reliefs available in judicial review proceedings are certiorari, prohibition, mandamus, claims for a declaration or injunction and for damages.…

…The compliance with the rules of natural justice is emphasised in Halsbury’s Laws of England, Third Edition Volume II para 122 at page 65 that: “An order of prohibition may be granted to restrain, and an order of certiorari…

…Unlike the applications founded under order 50 of the Civil Procedure Rules for prerogative orders of mandamus and certiorari , where a special procedure is provided for applications founded under section 27, 28 and 30 of…