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…As a result of those proceedings the appellant filed Criminal application number 467 of 1987 in the High Court, Nairobi.…

…Before us the appellant put forward the argument that he was not heard by the High Court on the substantive application and that the trial judge erred in his conclusion that the application was incompetent.…

…Shiundu - PM) RULING Before this Court is a second application for bond pending appeal expressed to be brought under section 357 of the Criminal Procedure Code.…

…This application is opposed and Mr. Jami prosecution counsel has served the appellants a Notice of enhancement of Sentence from fifteen (15) years to life imprisonment.…

…Even though the defendants were served and an Affidavit of service duly filed, they neither filed any responses nor attended court to oppose the application.…

…The consequence is that the application was thus deemed unopposed and was ordered to be heard in the absence of the Defendants/respondents. 4.…

…Even though the defendants were served and an Affidavit of service duly filed, they neither filed any responses nor attended court to oppose the application.…

…The consequence is that the application was thus deemed unopposed and was ordered to be heard in the absence of the Defendants/respondents. 4.…

…When the appellant did appear on 24th September 1993 the prosecutor made an oral application that he should be convicted for contempt of court because he had failed to pay school fees for his children.…

…The oral application made by the children’s officer, without any affidavit in support denied the appellant an opportunity of challenging the whole proceedings. The procedure adopted was wrong.…

…The application is based on 3 grounds which are described by the applicant, one filed by the applicant’s wife and to the other by his learned counsel.…

…For the above reasons, the application for bail pending the hearing and determination of the appeal is dismissed.…

…The application is based on 3 grounds which are described by the applicant, one filed by the applicant’s wife and to the other by his learned counsel.…

…For the above reasons, the application for bail pending the hearing and determination of the appeal is dismissed.…

…Chunga, for the Republic, vigourously opposed the application. The Chief Magistrate ordered that:- a. The appellant be allowed to go out of the jurisdiction of the court. And b.…

…Be that as it may, a formal application for revision was duly filed by the Republic and the appellant in turn also filed a formal application seeking the setting aside of the ex-parte order to which we have made reference…

…the application and petition. 7.…

…Section 12 of the Land Act and the 2017 have no application to the process being undertaken because not all the land in Mandera township is aected.…

…has an oversight jurisdiction over the exercise of the Attorney General’s power to terminate criminal prosecutions. (6) The Attorney General’s exercise of discretion to terminate proceedings can only be challenged by an application…

…The private prosecutor will be required to first make an application before the High Court challenging the exercise of the Attorney General discretion. (10) The Constitution section 26 (8) guarantees the Independence of the…

…The applicant who was aggrieved by the said order then filed an application to this Court seeking to have the said orders revised.…

…He seeks to challenge the application on a number of grounds as shown in his chamber summons dated 26th of October, 1992. Those grounds are:- 1.…

…This is an application by way of Notice of Motion for leave to file an appeal to this court out of time.…

…The principal state counsel does not oppose this application since the applicant is in prison and that he is incapacitated to do certain matters.…

…Sometimes back the accused had made an application to the land registrar to have the piece of land in dispute between the complainant and the accused sub-divided.…

…I am informed the application had been made in February this year. The consent to subdivide was obtained from the land registrar and on Friday the surveyors came to see the accused and asked him to show them the land.…

…Accordingly they applied under the priviso to that section for the admission of their respective appeals out of time by applications dated July 19, 1984.…

…Their applications came before Bhandari, J, on the August 23, 1984, on which occasion it was stated that the appellants were absent and unrepresented, and that Mr Metho appeared for the Republic, as he did in this Court.…

…Accordingly they applied under the priviso to that section for the admission of their respective appeals out of time by applications dated July 19, 1984.…

…Their applications came before Bhandari, J, on the August 23, 1984, on which occasion it was stated that the appellants were absent and unrepresented, and that Mr Metho appeared for the Republic, as he did in this Court.…

…These proceedings were preceded by an application for bail pending appeal. The court considered and both sides agreed that the actual appeal should itself be heard and that is what happened. Mr.…

…Mr Khaminwa also argued that section 348 of the Criminal Procedure Code cannot be invoked in every case: neither was it safe to give the application of the section a broad generalisation, he said.…

…voluntary or is obtained by force or threats or torture or even deception, it cannot be said to be unequivocal for it would in those circumstances be a nullity to which section 348 of the Criminal Procedure Code would have no application…

…RESPONDENT J U D G M E N T The two appeals were consolidated on application by the State Counsel.…