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…The preliminary objection as I understand it is to the hearing the suit itself on the grounds that the plaintiff failed to challenge award delivered in Succession Cause No. 46 of 1981 in time or at all.…

…Civil Application number 620 of 1992 by consent of both parties the High Court ordered that Succession Cause No. 46 of 1981 for transferred to this court as registered as a succession cause and thereafter proceed to hearing…

…The hearing proceeded ex parte because neither the defendants nor their advocates appeared. Nor was there any explanation as to their nonattendance.…

…He, therefore, went to see a dentist on the morning of the hearing date with the result that he was not able to attend. That ground was given much later after this application had been filed.…

…High Court, Nairobi under order 39 rule 1 and 2 of the rules seeking orders that the defendants and each of them be restrained by injunction from removing the body of the deceased from the Nairobi City Mortuary pending the hearing…

…The defendants thereafter hurried to this court and successfully sought the injunction and order granted on January 7, 1987 pending the hearing of the interlocutory appeal.…

…The applicant in his amended application filed on 16th March 1988 sought leave of the court to stay execution of the orders granted in the High court in Miscellaneous Civil Application No. 360 of 1982 pending the hearing…

…It is against this High Court Order that the application is made for stay of execution pending the hearing of the intended appeal. There has been an unexplained delay in the matter.…

…335 OF 1997 N W...........................................................APPLICANT versus M M.........................................................RESPONDENT R U L I N G There is a Divorce petition still pending for hearing…

…Be that as it may, the application that came before the learned trial magistrate was interlocutory pending the hearing of the divorce petition. Its foundation was the petition which was the substantive suit.…

…restraining the defendants whether by themselves individually or collectively or by their servants or agents from selling and transferring any of their shares in a company known as Umoja Enterprises Limited pending the hearing…

…Applying these principles to the present application and upon a full examination of the pleadings, the affidavits filed in support and in opposition and the annexures thereto and after hearing the viva voce testimony of the…

….…...RESPONDENT RULING The Notice of Motion application which came for hearing was filed in court on 23rd March 1988. Exparte orders had been granted to the applicant on 7/3/88.…

…It was the inter-parte hearing which came before me.…

…She adjourned the application to 26th April 1994 for hearing inter partes.…

…From the directions of the Honourable Chief Justice what is for hearing today is the main suit and not the application. I am prepared for hearing of the main suit.…

…Onyango is recorded to have stated as follows: “This hearing date was taken by consent of the parties. This morning I saw the Plaintiff in court.…

…It would appear to us that in this case the application was placed before Hayanga, J. for hearing on that account.…

…of appeal and the appeal be admitted of time at the High Court of Kenya at Nakuru ( Masime J ) dated December 3, 1983 In High Court Civil Case No 235 of 1982 RULING The applicant was duly served with the notice for the hearing…

…The application was then stood over to this morning hoping that in the meantime the applicant would make enquiries so as to be notified of this morning’s hearing. There is no appearance again today.…

…Alternatively, it seems, for it is not entirely clear, Mr Khanna, moves for an order that the executors of the deceased be substituted now and the hearing of the appeal be deferred pending the production of their grant of…

…probate, or the substitution and the hearing be deferred until the executors have obtained grant of probate.…

…Alternatively, it seems, for it is not entirely clear, Mr Khanna, moves for an order that the executors of the deceased be substituted now and the hearing of the appeal be deferred pending the production of their grant of…

…probate, or the substitution and the hearing be deferred until the executors have obtained grant of probate.…

…, which in my view can have no other meaning than a reference to the hearing of the petition and not, for instance, to the hearing of an application such as that with which we are concerned in the present case.…

…The consequence of a breach of the rule is that the hearing of the petition is cancelled.…

…of appeal and the appeal be admitted of time at the High Court of Kenya at Nakuru ( Masime J ) dated December 3, 1983 In High Court Civil Case No 235 of 1982 RULING The applicant was duly served with the notice for the hearing…

…The application was then stood over to this morning hoping that in the meantime the applicant would make enquiries so as to be notified of this morning’s hearing. There is no appearance again today.…

…The applicant can still challenge the proceedings before the tribunal which has already made orders which he claims were made without according him a hearing. In the Tribunal, he can challenge its jurisdiction.…

…Land Court: Provided that the Environment and Land Court may, where it is satised that there is sucient reason for so doing, extend the said period of thirty days upon such conditions, if any, as it may think t. (2) In hearing…

….…..PLAINTIFF VERSUS LIMURU PYRETHRUM GROWERS CO-OP LTD & 9 OTHERS…… DEFENDANTS RULING At the opening of the hearing inter partes of an application by the plaintiffs for an injunction, the counsel for the defendants took…

…The order sought having been granted on the ex parte application a hearing inter partes of the same was fixed for 4th May 1989 when the preliminary objection was taken as stated above.…

….…..RESPONDENT RULING When this appeal was called on for hearing, Mr Kwach, appearing on behalf of the two respondents, took the preliminary objection that the mandatory provisions of Rule 85 (1) (f) of rules of this court…

…In paragraph 17 of the affidavit counsel deponed that under section 77(1) of the Constitution, a person is entitled to a fair hearing when he is charged.…

…On 18th February, 1992, the matter came up for hearing before us.…

….…..RESPONDENT RULING When this appeal was called on for hearing, Mr Kwach, appearing on behalf of the two respondents, took the preliminary objection that the mandatory provisions of Rule 85 (1) (f) of rules of this court…