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…written law, the fact that any matter in issue in any criminal proceedings is also directly or substantially in issue in any pending civil proceedings shall not be aground for any stay prohibition or delay of the criminal…

…proceedings.…

…Firstly, it must be shown that there was either a legal reason for instituting criminal proceedings nor was the prosecution for public benefit but rather for personal and spiteful reasons.…

…The plaintiff did not, however, call evidence to show that the criminal proceedings were ill motivated. The circumstances leading to the loss of the tyre excited suspicion against him as the thief.…

…following a full inquiry, and after the office of the Attorney-General had then decided not to institute or undertake criminal proceedings and to close the files?…

…(c) to discontinue at any stage before judgment is delivered any such criminal proceedings instituted or undertaken by himself or another person or authority.…

…A final judgment of a competent Court in any criminal proceedings which declares any person to be guilty of a criminal offence shall, after the expiry of the time limited for an appeal against such judgment or after the date…

…Having regard to this evidence, it is significant that in the Criminal Proceedings (exhibit 1) against Amrik Singh, the man is not only referred to as Singh, which title in my experience is used only by Sikhs in this country…

…The first one is that the police officer as agent for the defendant must have instituted the criminal proceedings against the plaintiff. Mr Ojiambo says that a police officer does not or can not act as agent.…

…As regards the actual award, the plaintiff must have suffered as a result of the punishable behaviour, the punishment imposed must not exceed what would be likely to have been imposed in criminal proceedings if the conduct…