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…XVI Rule 5 of the Civil Procedure Rules, on the ground that the plaintiff had since the close of the pleadings taken no steps in the matter to set down the suit for hearing.…

…XVI Rule 5 are restated:- “If within three months after: - (a) the close of the pleadings … the plaintiff does not set down the suit for hearing, the defendant may either set the suit down for hearing or apply for its dismissal…

…About a month later, on 25th September, 1992, she lodged Civil Appeal No. 140 of 1992 which was fixed for hearing on 28th October, 1996.…

…NO. 219/1998 This matter is coming up for hearing on 24th May, 1999.…

…At the hearing of the application only the alternative prayer was pursued.…

…The issue of bank guarantee is not a new one as it featured during hearing of the application for stay. It was common ground that a bank guarantee automatically expires after a year and would have to be renewed.…

…The appellant indicated that he waited to be present at the hearing of the appeal and an order was made for his production at the hearing. On the hearing date, the appellant was absent and unrepresented.…

…Thereafter the hearing was adjourned and it would appear from the record that Mr Mganga was unable to continue with the trial and the case was taken over by Mr Magolo, an Acting Resident Magistrate.…

…He first appears on record on 13th January 1988 when he fixed the hearing for 5th April 1988.…

…Simultaneously, the Petitions led on application under certicate of urgency for the following interim orders:- That pending the hearing and determination of the summons inter partes the court be pleased to issue conservatory…

…That sections 30,31,32,33 and 34 of the constitution of Kenya Review Act2008 be suspended pending the hearing and determination of the Petition. 4. On 18.12.09, the Hon.…

…He has lodged an appeal to this court against conviction and sentence and now applies to be released on bail pending the hearing and determination of the appeal.…

…However, since I have seen that there not so many appeals in Mombasa, I cannot see why the hearing of this particular one should take long to dispose of.…

…He has lodged an appeal to this court against conviction and sentence and now applies to be released on bail pending the hearing and determination of the appeal.…

…However, since I have seen that there not so many appeals in Mombasa, I cannot see why the hearing of this particular one should take long to dispose of.…

…This was preferred during the course of the hearing and substituted for the original of attempted rape.…

…He was, we think, then disqualified from hearing the case and should have transferred it to another magistrate of competent jurisdiction.…

…I am not hearing the Review application. I will, therefore, resist thetemptation to go into the merits. I must stress however, that litigations musthave their final end.…

…However, where such a Judge is nolonger attached to the Court the review may be heard by any other Judgeattached to the court at the time it is called up for hearing.…

…Hearing to go on.”…

…At the hearing of that application before Kuloba, J. on 3rd December, 1998, Mr.…

…Both the applications which had been served upon the Appellant’s advocate were fixed for hearing on 30th march 2006 before the Principal Magistrate who had jurisdiction in the matter.…

…Thereupon counsel for the Appellant walked out after his oral application for stay of the proceedings to enable him appeal against that order to proceed with the hearing of the applications was refused.…

…I am not hearing the Review application. I will, therefore, resist thetemptation to go into the merits. I must stress however, that litigations musthave their final end.…

…However, where such a Judge is nolonger attached to the Court the review may be heard by any other Judgeattached to the court at the time it is called up for hearing.…

…There is today before me, the mention of Appeal No 31 of 1987 for directions as to the hearing of the same. It is necessary for me to recapitulate the courts’ history of the litigation involved.…

…Before the Court of Appeal could list the appeal for hearing, a letter dated the 16th March, 1987 was received from Advocate Mr Khaminwa by the Registry objecting to Judges of Appeal Nyarangi, Platt and Gachuhi to sit in…

…the provisional liquidator by the order appointing him under Section 235 of the Act: I agree with Mr Gautama that if the application is ordered to be served there must be an interval between the Service and the Interparte hearing…

…I agree with him that it might become difficult to have a fair hearing of the application in the event. It is therefore in the interest of justice that an interim order should be made exparte.…

…At the hearing of the appeal, Mr Ochieng for the appellants contended that, whatever the established procedure was, the appellants should have been heard.…

…It is axiomatic at every seating or hearing that each party to the particular dispute will have been notified to attend, to prepare to be heard and to have ready his witnesses.…

…The applicant applied to be released on bond pending the hearing and determination of the case.…

…application, the applicant was previously charged with the same offence before the Chief Magistrate’s Court Nakuru before the proceedings were terminated and then transferred to the Naivasha Chief Magistrate’s Court for fresh hearing…

…This ground alone merited the appellant’s appeal to be admitted to hearing in the superior court. Summary rejection of that appeal was therefore wrong.…

…Accordingly, we allow the appellant’s appeal to this court, set aside the superior court’s order summarily rejecting the appellant’s appeal to that court and order that the said appeal be admitted to hearing by the superior…

…In making reference to Constitutional Petition No. 50 of 2020, he indicated that it came up for hearing on 28th July, 2020 before Judge E.…

…It was submitted that the lower court case came up for hearing on 29th July, 2020 but Mr.…