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…having been found to be mere smokescreen defence and averments, they were struck out as shown and intended merely to postpone the inevitable pay-day, and as being an abuse of the process of the court; whereupon judgment on liability…

…Following that finding of liability, the plaintiff set down the case for assessment of damages. This judgment is in that respectively.…

…having been found to be mere smokescreen defence and averments, they were struck out as shown and intended merely to postpone the inevitable pay-day, and as being an abuse of the process of the court; whereupon judgment on liability…

…Following that finding of liability, the plaintiff set down the case for assessment of damages. This judgment is in that respectively.…

…In CivilApplication NO. 1871/85 in which Dugdale J. held inter alia: "The biggest problem in this case is that of vicarious liability.…

…Thereforevicarious liability cannot be attributed to the defendant and the claim mustfail". Mr.…

…He was obviously referring to the issue of liability as he did say, and quite correctly in our view, that the issue of damages should proceed to proof by way of assessment of damages. Mr.…

…there was no denial at all of the allegation of the alleged wrongly dismissal and in any event there was no application made to the judge orally or otherwise to amend the defence, we see no point in letting the issue of liability…

…The defendant’s appeal is against both liability and quantum. The plaintiff’s appeal is against quantum only. We shall deal first with the submissions made by Mr. Jiwaji, for the defendant.…

…The appeal against liability must fail and it is dismissed.…

…It is his stand that since the evidence is not challenged liability is established.…

…On the assessment of evidence on liability I find that the suit is not contested and in terms of Order 6 rule 9(1) of the Civil Procedure Rules the defendant is deemed to have admitted the allegations of the plaintiff save…

…The only question remaining in my mind as regards liability is what was the true effect of those findings?…

…To that extent only would I allow the appeal as regards liability.…

…citing 4 grounds of appeal namely that the learned senior Resident Magistrate erred in law and in fact in failing to find that the plaintiff contributed to the said accident and thereby arrived at an erroneous decision on liability…

…I find that liability was well established as found by the trial magistrate that there is no denial that the respondent was an employee of the appellant and he was injured on duty and was paid workmans compensation.…

…I find that the evidence before me that liability has been admitted by the defendants at 85%. None of the parties mentioned whether the defendants No. 2 and 3 were prosecuted as stated in the plaint.…

…I hereby enter judgement for the plaintiff against the defendant on liability at the ratio of 15.85% as agreed by the parties.…

…The degree of liability was assessed at 65%. In this case the disability was not included by the doctor. In a summary:- I hereby enter judgement of the plaintiff on 100% liability against the defendants.…

…The appellant at first filed a defence denying liability to the respondent but when the case came up for hearing before the High Court (Aganyanya, J) on the 20th February, 1989, a consent order was entered and the terms of…

…that order were that judgment on liability was entered for the respondent and four medical reports were put in evidence without calling the doctors who had made them.…

…However, such finding does not absolve the defendant from liability. Besides the speed, the court must consider whether he kept any proper look out or sufficient regard for the pedestrians crossing the road.…

…These grounds are mainly on liability and quantum of damages.…

…The Respondent stated that the claimant had failed to prove liability on the Respondent as there was no eye witness who was called upon to support the assertions by the claimant.…

…cases of Bwire v Wayo & Sailoki (Civil Appeal 032 of 2021 and Wycliff Nyongesa v Etyang Imonyaro & AG (2004) eKLR to submit that on the account that the Claimant did not bring an eye witness, the Claimant failed to prove liability…

….…………….PLAINTIFF VERSUS MIUGU GENERAL TRANSPORT CO LTD………………DEFENDANT JUDGMENT The plaintiff herein Chinga Tea Factory Company Ltd, a limited liability company, sued the defendant, Miugu General Transport Company Ltd, also…

…a limited liability company, for loss and damage caused to their consignment of 240 chests of tea which the defendant was transporting from the plaintiff’s factory at Chinga along the Murang’a/Chinga road for delivery to…

…The plaintiffs side placed substantial amount of the liability onthe 2nd defendant and therefore on the 1st defendant vicariously. The cases of DCM THYSSENV. WAKISU ESTATE LTD. [1960] E.A. 2896 and KHAMBI & ANOTHER V.…

…Beginning with the issue of liability this court took time to look at evidence of both sidesside by side. The plaintiff told this court that the whole of the defendant's trailer stood in thelane as one drove to Mombasa.…

…However, during the course of the hearing it occurred to me that the claim to recover, treble the value of the goods sold was a liability imposed purely by statute and that on the authority of Barraclough v Brown & others…

…I am strengthened in this view by the clear distinction between the liability imposed by section 7 and the right to recover bestowed by section 8 and 10 of the said Act.…

…These findings by the Judge on liability form the basis of the cross-appeal, wherein we are asked to reverse them. We do not think we can do so.…

…We are satisfied that there was sufficient evidence to support the Judge’s conclusions on the issue of liability and in any case, the respondent’s claims as stated by Stephen were not part of their pleadings.…

…Liability for the accident is not in dispute. It was agreed between the parties that the liability of the appellants was to be 80%. The learned judge did not reduce the figure of damages he awarded by 20%.…

…The upshot of all this is that this appeal is allowed and damages awarded in the sum of shs.960,000/= are reduced to shs.350,000/= and further reduced by 20%, as the appellants' liability was 80%.…

…In my judgment, therefore, the issue of liability was already settled ( in favour of the plaintiff of course) by the time the judge embarked on the task of assessment of damages.…

…The plaintiff’s suit could not be dismissed as liability had been admitted. No injustice would have been occasioned to either party if the judge had proceeded along the lines I have suggested.…