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…As a result the plaintiff suffered unlawful imprisonment with mental torture and physical suffering for one full year – after serving the lawful imprisonment period.…

…In the case of AttorneyGeneralvsOluoch [1972] EA 392, claims of damages were brought against two police officers and two magistrates for unlawful confinement and false imprisonment.…

…Her case is that she is the lawful wife of the 1st Defendant under Taita Customary Law, that the intended marriage between the defendants is unlawful, illegal and void as being contrary to the provisions of the Marriage Act…

…There was no justification for the assault and the same was unlawful. The court therefore holds that the two plaintiffs were unlawfully assaulted by the first two defendants and they are therefore liable in damages.…

…He deponed that if any building approvals were obtained from inter alia the 4th Respondent, it was done unlawfully, improperly and irregularly since the 3rd Respondent who purports to from the rights of the 1st and 2nd Respondents…

…Counsel further noted that the 3rd Respondent had admitted to undertaking the construction works on the suit property without rst obtaining the development permissions, which is unlawful under the Act and constitutes a crime…

…to restrain the defendants from alienating, disposing off the land or registering any instrument or transaction over the land; a declaration that the rectification of the register of the parcel of land is fraudulent and unlawful…

…debentures; e) they had waived those rights; f) they were in breach of their contracts and acting mala fides in making their demands; g) their demands were null and void for uncertainty so their appointment of the receivers was unlawful…

…debentures; e) they had waived those rights; f) they were in breach of their contracts and acting mala fides in making their demands; g) their demands were null and void for uncertainty so their appointment of the receivers was unlawful…

…I might mention at this stage that it frequently happens that an advocate, or a solicitor in England, receives instructions from and acts for both parties to a lase transaction, and there is nothing unlawful in it so long…