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…Appeal in an intended Appeal from a judgment and order of the High Court at Nairobi (Oguk, J.) dated 24th June, 1996 in Criminal Appeal No. 920 of 1995) *************************** RULING OF THE COURT: The respondent in this reference…

…Further and without any reference to the Central Bank of Kenya the superior court set aside the order of forfeiture referred to above and ordered that all the money forfeited to the said Bank be released forthwith to the…

…So it is the subordinate court which makes the reference under section 67 (1) of the Constitution of Kenya (the Constitution), not the party.…

…So one finds, as we see it, the issue narrowing itself down to one point namely: the subordinate court having not made a reference to the High Court, there could not be anything in the Constitution identified for interpretation…

…Both Mr Imanyara for respondents Nos 1, 2 & 3 and Mr Khaminwa for the 4th respondent objected vigorously to any reference to any sections of the Penal Code for the sake of seeking any assistance from them.…

…Reference to sections of Penal Code contended Mr Khaminwa would therefore be an attempt to introduce the law and procedure under the Penal Code through the back door.…

…Even then, the 3rd defendant did not attempt to satisfy the Auctioneers Rules with regard to the condition of the proclaimed goods for it was only with reference to the attached motor vehicle that he indicated the value.…

…The former Court of Appeal for East Africa in Osongo and another v Republic , (1972) E A 170, 171 E and F, which was a reference to the full court, said that, it could not agree that if those words had not been used in the…

…The reference to a painful experience should, Mr Kitaitu argued, have alerted the magistrate to the coercion being brought to bear on the appellant, and appreciating what had happened, the magistrate should have changed the…

…References to the appellant’s career prospects, and the effect upon the appellant’s family if the appellant is imprisoned show that the appellant’s purpose was not to detract in any way from his plea of guilty but to persuade…

…As the trial proceeded, there were references to the assessors as being recalled though there was no record of the time and at what stage of the proceeding they were requested to leave the court.…

…No reference is made of it in the judgment. The trial judge ought to have considered it. Failure to consider the defence is contrary to natural justice and unsettles the judgment Okethi Okale v Republic [1965] EA 555.…

…We think the reference to a quarrel as an afterthought put forward for the reason we have stated, otherwise it would have formed a part of the appellant's statement which he made to the police on the day of the killing.…

…However, on 30th January, 1992, the applicant, through his counsel, Mr G B M Kariuki, filed a constitutional reference to this Court by way of originating motion pursuant to section 60 and 84 of the Constitution of Kenya,…

…However, looking at the actions which had been taken in relation to the issues which are the subject of this reference, we find that in both of them the issues raised were not addressed.…

…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 only reference the Court makes is to the likelihood of recurrence which is irrelevant in such circumstances. In exercising our power of revision therefore, we set aside the closure order.…

…But as we read the order, the reference to the order of the City Magistrate is a mere shorthand for the list of duties set out under 1. in the order, and the tenants remain authorised by the Tribunal to get on with that work…

…Now it is argued before us that it is correct for the prosecutor in giving the facts of the alleged offence to include reference to other offences which are in some way connected with the alleged offence, which go to increase…

…The basis for its admission, so far as we can discover, is the reference by the third appellant in his disputed inquiry statement, Exhibit 49, that he used a spade, which he had brought with him from home for the purpose…

…And so we will now turn to the evidence against the particular accused as counsel have done before us: we shall use as a reference the very helpful and full written submissions of learned State Counsel but we shall start…

…Kapila took us through the statement of May 16, 1982, with particular reference to the passage we quoted earlier in this judgment, in an attempt to show that the second appellant was not confessing to the offence of murder…

…Okethi Okale v Republic [1965] EA 555, which was cited also in relation to other grounds of appeal, expresses the court’s view in similar terms (at page 559 with a reference to the fact that the deceased was not at the time…