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…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.…

…MCCR/E.034 of 2020, pending the hearing and determination of this revision. 3) To make an order to call for and examine the record of the proceedings in the Chief Magistrate’s court at JKIANairobi in Criminal Case No.…

…Submissions that are common place in trials or hearing of appeals are undesirable.…

…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.…

…The applicant seeks to stay the hearing of the R.Ms court criminal case number 2826 of 1985 against the applicant now pending before Ang’awa (Miss), senior resident magistrate Nairobi, until the hearing and disposal of an…

…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…

…Counsel further applied that the presiding judge do disqualify himself from hearing the renewed bail application as he had rejected the previous one and was thus looking to reach the same conclusion in the current one.…

…It was suggested in submission by counsel for the applicant that an applicant for bail under section 123(3) was entitled to trail his coat through every court and before every judge for fresh hearing. Held: 1.…

…We do not have any explanation for his nonattendance.That being the case, and there being no other counsel present and ready to represent the appellant, we are unable to proceed with the hearing of this appeal.…

…It is accordingly taken out of today's hearing list and stood over to an early date to be refixed at the Registry. Mr.…

…When these appeals came up for hearing the first appellant told the court that he was satisfied with the conviction but asked for a reduction of the sentence.…

…He admitted he sped off but that was after hearing a gun shot and did not know at whom it was aimed. I have made an independent evaluation of the evidence.…

…It became plain to me during the hearing of this appeal, in the course of arguments by the learned counsel for the appellant, that the police officers who arrested the appellant and subsequently charged him with the offence…

…That report was produced in Court for the first time during the hearing of this appeal by counsel for the appellant to illustrate her point that the facts relied upon to constitute the offence did not disclose the offence…

…This is an after thought and although his appeal should correctly, have been admitted to hearing in view of that ground, no court would have accepted his belated explanation in the light of his unequivocal plea of guilty…

…No purpose would, therefore, be served by sending back this appeal to the High Court for admission for hearing.…

…On his second appeal to this Court, the appellant exhibited a curious reticence in lodging his memorandum of appeal, and over a year’s delay in the hearing was caused by an alleged hiatus between himself and his advocates…

…When the matter eventually came on for hearing he added to his grounds of appeal to the High Court that the learned Judge had failed to address his mind to the first petition of appeal, and the arguments advanced in support…

…On his second appeal to this Court, the appellant exhibited a curious reticence in lodging his memorandum of appeal, and over a year’s delay in the hearing was caused by an alleged hiatus between himself and his advocates…

…When the matter eventually came on for hearing he added to his grounds of appeal to the High Court that the learned Judge had failed to address his mind to the first petition of appeal, and the arguments advanced in support…

…By notice of motion of the same date the appellant applied for leave to call additional evidence on the hearing of the appeal.…

…By consent, it was ordered that the appellant’s application to call additional evidence should be stood over to the hearing of the appeal itself when the application would be heard as a preliminary issue.…

…Simon Nyamai attended the hearing of the appeal and the other appellants did not do so (at their own request).…

…Simon Nyamai added nothing in his submissions during the hearing of the appeal. We must be unmoved by these references to age or health or family obligations by such people.…

…For reasons which we do not know, the appeal was not fixed for hearing until now, that is after a period of five years.…

…In these circumstances, it would not be in the interest of justice to direct the High Court to admit the appeal to hearing as this will undoubtedly cause a further delay.…

…When the applicant's application for the extension of time which had been filed in this Court on 22nd October, 1996 came up for hearing before the single judge of this Court, Bosire, Ag.…

…At the hearing of this reference on 18th December, 1996, Mr.…

…Section 361(1)(b) of the Criminal Procedure Code debars this Court from hearing his appeal against sentence. The appellant's appeal is therefore incompetent and the same is struck out.…

…The appellant appealed to the superior court against both conviction and sentence and also filed an application under section 358 of the Criminal Procedure Code for leave to adduce additional evidence at the hearing of the…

…When the appeal came for hearing in the superior court, Mr Chunga raised a preliminary objection based on section 348 of the Criminal Procedure Code, that the appeal against conviction was incompetent and should be struck…

…The appellant did not wish to be present during the hearing of this appeal.…

…Her failure to consider in her judgment the fact that the appellant had refunded the money, he allegedly unlawfully obtained long before the case came for a hearing did not in our view cause any prejudice to the appellant…