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…Mr Hawala has submitted that section 4 of the Government Proceedings Act was borrowed from section 2 of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 of England and has referred to the case of Royal Aquarium and Summer and Winter Garden…

…Act, 1888, from the local justices to the County Council) were “judicial proceedings”, so that absolute privilege could be claimed in respect of remarks made there in proceedings taken for defamation.…

…Nzei asked this court to nullify all the proceedings that went on in P.M.C.C.NO. 303/95 because Mr.…

…All he did was unlawful and thus of no validity at all hence nullifying those proceedings. Mr.…

…The grounds in support of the application are that fees have not been paid and in the absence of an order of court to the effect that fees are not to be paid the proceedings are a nullity and the respondent should be ordered…

…In default of No.1 above the judgement and the proceedings herein shall become null and void and the plaintiff shall be obligated to refund the amount paid to them by the defendant immediately upon default.…

…Upon our consideration of the proceedings in the two lower courts and hearing the submissions of the appellant we cannot find any such error. In the result this appeal is ordered to be dismissed with costs.…

…April 1998 which was withdrawn and replaced with one dated 29th January 1999 sought this court's orders to set aside the said award on the grounds Mr, Kilonzi argued that the arbitrators had misconducted themselves in the proceedings…

…Mr, Kilonzi had taken the point that listening to the Kitui Moslem Youth and at Nairobi included a stranger to the proceedings and also deprived his clients of an opportunity to hear and possibly respond to the views of those…

…No 56 of 1986 dated 30th March 1986) The six-month limitation period for applying for leave to seek an order of certiorari under the Law Reform Act is mandatory The application concerned leave to commence judicial review proceedings…

…It is not clear what part Ogowe played in these proceedings for review. The record does not show that he took any part.…

….4TH CONTRIBUTOR/OBJECTOR EDWARD KINGS ONYANCHA MAINA....................................................5TH CONTRIBUTOR/OBJECTOR RULING The Applicant, Edward Kings Onyancha Maina, is the 5th Contributor in this winding up proceedings…

…By his principal submission, he contends that by virtue of Order 5 rules 9 and 12 of the Rules, there was no valid service of summons to enter appearance and that therefore the proceedings ex-parte were null and void ab initio…

…Accordingly in my view there was no valid service of the summons to enter appearance and therefore the proceedings exparte must be rendered null and void ab initio.…

…What the appellants stated in their claim presented by Noah’s evidence in the proceedings before the committee and produced as Exhibits marked D9 is this: “I claim from Ainea my father’s piece of land, simply because he has…

…On these facts, it seems, whatever may have been the original nature of the title acquired by the parties, since the dispute of 1947, 1958 and their settlements and the Land Adjudication proceedings of 1967 which resulted…

…Finally counsel submitted that the learned judge ought to have taken into account the conduct of the respondent before and during the proceedings as an aggravating factor in making an award of damages.…

…It appears from the proceedings that on December 23, 1985 the respondent applied for judgment in default of the appellant entering an appearance or filing a defence.…

…But an affidavit of the process server is admissible in evidence and in the absence of contest it would normally be considered sufficient evidence of the regularity of the proceedings.…

…Justice Act 1948 a conviction of an offender followed by an order placing the offender on probation or discharging him absolutely or conditionally, had to be deemed to be no conviction, except for the purposes of those proceedings…

…This application is disallowed and the proceedings in this suit terminated and the dispute referred to the Tribunal for arbitration under Act 18 of 1990".…

…Civil suits and proceedings relating to the title to or the possession of, land, or to the title to a lease or charge, registered under this Act, or to any interest in such land, lease or charge, being an interest which is…

…But an affidavit of the process server is admissible in evidence and in the absence of contest it would normally be considered sufficient evidence of the regularity of the proceedings.…

…The record of proceedings in the superior court does not indicate In his responding affidavit sworn on 5th June, 1987, Kweyu Omuto, the respondent, deponed as follows:- 11.…

…An unsatisfied judgment against it exposes it to execution or winding up proceedings which falls foul of another one (clause 11 (a). It did not have the money ready to be paid.…

…An unsatisfied judgment against it exposes it to execution or winding up proceedings which falls foul of another one (clause 11 (a). It did not have the money ready to be paid.…