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…An appeal from that decision being Civil Appeal No. 287 of 1996 was, on 30 October, 1997 struck out for being incompetent as the certified copy of the order appealed from did not comply with the provisions of Order XX rule…

…The only specific provision under which a suit may be struck out is Order VI rule 13(1) and an order under that provision is also equally appealable as of right under Order XLII rule 1.…

…out on 20 May, 1999.…

…The Certificate of Delay included in the original appeal which was struck out and the one attached to the present application states in paragraph 6 as follows: "By letter dated 20th May 1998 the Advocates were notified that…

…NO. 97 OF 1988) ********************** RULING The applicant's original appeal to this Court was struck out on 23rd October, 1995 for the reason that its record did not contain a certified copy of the decree appealed against…

…He, however, did not seek extension of time within which to lodge the Notice of Appeal the original of which was struck out with his original appeal to this Court.…

…NO. 2118 OF 1994) ********************* R U L I N G On 19th March, 1997, this Court struck out the appeal filed by the applicant, being Civil Appeal No. 14 of 1996, on the ground that the same was filed out of time, without…

…Kiarie's error in misreading or misconstruing of Rule 81 of the Rules of this Court led to the filing, of the struck out appeal, out of time.…

…NO. 5 OF 1994) *********************** RULING OF THE COURT By a Notice of Motion dated 18th November, 1996 and lodged in this Court on the same day, the respondent sought to have the appellant’s appeal struck out as being…

…In the result we order that this appeal be and is hereby struck out with costs to the respondent. Dated and delivered at Nairobi this 9th day of December 1996 J. E. GICHERU ……………………. JUDGE OF APPEAL P. K.…

…So the prayers which were left were, firstly that the suit be struck out for being an abuse of the process of the court and for want of prosecution. An application under O.…

…An issue was raised by plaintiff to the effect that the application did not particularize which pleadings should be struck out. Considering what I have already stated consideration of this issue is not necessary.…

…When the same were not forthcoming he applied to court to have the defendants compelled to furnish them or in the alternative to have the defence struck out.…

…The defendants did not oppose that application with the result that the court struck out the defence and subsequently judgment was entered for the plaintiff as prayed in the plaint and a decree followed.…

…The applicant's Civil Appeal NO. 291 of 1998 was struck out by this Court for being incompetent on 7th February, 2000. On 14th of the same month, this application was made.…

…This was 7 days after the applicant's appeal was struck out. Clearly there was no inordinate delay on the part of the applicant in making its present application.…

…Unless the entire Originating Summons was bad, it should not have been struck out.…

…In failing to do this, that Court was clearly wrong and ought not to have struck out the appellants’ Originating Summons.…

…The suit is therefore liable to be struck out. The only issue in dispute is what order for costs should be made. The Plaintiff says that it is not his fault that the suit has now become spent.…

…This suit be and is hereby struck out. 2. Each party to bear its own costs of the suit. DATED AT NAIROBI THIS 17TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 2007 H. P. G. WAWERU J U D G E DELIVERED THIS 20TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 2007…

…As the respondent failed to repay the capital and the agreed profits, the applicant filed this suit for accounts and seeks the defence to be struck out and for the judgment to be entered as prayed.…

…Owino for the applicant submits that the defence of denial of the agreement is a mere sham and should be struck out.…

…In the meantime, the 1st defendant has brought the present application dated 30th January, 2009 for orders that the originating summons be struck out for the reasons that: i) the claim is statute barred; ii) the agreement…

…I reiterate that the instant application seeks that the originating summons be struck out.…

…The application canvassed before the learned single judge had been necessitated by the fact that the applicant’s appeal had been struck out by this Court on 21st February, 2001 on the ground that it was lodged one day out…

…Nakuru Civil Appeal No 156 of 1999 was struck out on 21st February, 2001 for being out of time. The applicant lodged this application a week later on 28th February, 2001.…

…By a Notice of motion dated 21/11/2019, the plaintiff/applicant prayed that the statement of defence filed by the three defendants be struck out on account that it grounded on the allegations that the plaintiff was not a…

…it out. 8.…

…He then struck out the application with costs for the respondent. But what was the decision of Omolo, JA which was upheld by the full court?…

…It was that the application then before him for extension of time to file the appeal, be struck out on the ground that the application was incompetent as it did not fulfil a precondition previously ordered by the court for…

…The appeal by the applicant against the decision of the High Court was struck out by this court on 8th October, 1995, on the ground that the related record of appeal did not, as mandatorily required by the Rules of this court…

…It would I think, if the present advocate of the Applicant, had been the same that had failed to include a certified copy of the decree in the record of appeal in the appeal which had earlier been struck out and also if the…

…By a Notice of motion dated 21/11/2019, the plaintiff/applicant prayed that the statement of defence filed by the three defendants be struck out on account that it grounded on the allegations that the plaintiff was not a…

…it out. 8.…

…By a Notice of motion dated 21/11/2019, the plaintiff/applicant prayed that the statement of defence filed by the three defendants be struck out on account that it grounded on the allegations that the plaintiff was not a…

…it out. 8.…

…Since then no step was taken to have the same struck out under rule 80 of the Rules of this Court.…

…seriously of the view that the applicant's projected appeal was frivolous, the first thing she should have done is to seize the opportunity of the delay in the service of the Notice of Appeal and apply to this Court to have it struck…