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Division and case type: Milimani Commercial CourtsCivil Case
…deserving suitor because of fear that the effect would be to engender serious ill will and probable violence between the parties or indeed any other consequences would be to sacrifice the principle of legality and the dictates of…
…the rule of law at the altar of convenience.…
Division and case type: Constitutional and Human RightsConstitutional Petition
…observed: “There are grave objections to giving courts discretion to decide whether governmental action is lawful or unlawful: the citizen is entitled to resist unlawful action as a matter of right and to live under the rule…
…of Law, not the rule of discretion.…
Division and case type: Milimani Commercial CourtsElection Petition
…I do not intent to deviate from that principle for without judicial independence there is no rule of law and I shall be the last to violate.…
Division and case type: Constitutional and Human RightsElection Petition
…The rule has force of law under section 33 of cap 2 above stated.…
…This is a fundamental requirement in keeping with the principles of rules of natural justice and the practice of rule of law.…
Division and case type: Milimani Commercial CourtsCriminal Case
…The people know and believe that destroy the rule of law and you destroy justice, thereby also destroying the society. Justice of any other kind would be as shocking as the crime itself.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…It is not a rule of law that, in order to support a conviction, there must be corroboration of a dying declaration (R v Eligu s/o Odel and another (1943) 10 EACA 9; Re Guruswani[1940] Mad 158, and there may be circumstances…
…As regards the probative force of a dying declaration the court said: ‘Although there is no rule of law that to support a conviction there must be corroboration of such statements, it is generally recognised that it is very…