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…I make no orders as to costs as the advocate is at liberty subject to the statute of limitation, to le before the High Court, his bill of costs for taxation by the taxing ocer or master as stipulated in law. 32.…

…of Re An Application by Gideon Waweru Gathunguri [1962] EA 520 was cited and stress was laid on the principle of law that rules of court could not defeat the clear provision of section 20 which set the absolute period of limitation…

…It is also the petitioner’s case that section 43 of the KCIA is inconsistent with Articles 24(2)(a) of the Constitution hence null and void to the extent that it did not set out the nature and extent of the limitation as…

…Further by dint of the decision to commute the sentence of death to life, he was denied the right on access to court and that limitation was in breach of Article 48 and the fundamental right to a fair and public hearing in…

…section 20(1) (a) and rule 14 (1) the Court was of the view that to reconcile the two one has to modify the application of rule 14 (1) (so as to bring the total time of presentation and service within the 28 day statute limitation…

…The learned Judges did not also address themselves to the fact that the section did not appear to intend limitation to the operation of the Constitution in ensuring that all grievances are redressed and not merely glossed…