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…I remind myself that an injunction is a great and beneficial equitable remedy.…

…interlocutory injunctive relief will be available only to either those with demonstrable legal or equitable rights in danger of violation or which have actually been violated in situations where damages would be an inadequate remedy…

…(c) The Plaintiff’s suit will rendered nugatory if no orders are granted as the 1st Defendant is domiciled overseas and damages will not be an adequate remedy.…

…He further submitted that there was no wrongdoing, contractually or in tort, against the 3rd Defendant for which the remedy sought has been prayed for.…

…For sometime now, the courts have held that a dispute as to how much is payable in respect of the principal sum or interest cannot avail a litigant in the plaintiff’s position the remedy of an injunction.…

…The application is based on the grounds that the plaintiff has failed to prosecute its suit within reasonable time after obtaining the injunction; that the plaintiff is enjoying an equitable remedy whilst it is not displaying…

…If the appeal succeeded, the order to be made would automatically render the proceedings in the High Court unnecessary but an appropriate order for costs would remedy that.…

…continue and even be determined but if the Appellant were to succeed in its appeal the proceedings in the Lower Court will be rendered unnecessary and the court hearing the appeal may make an appropriate order for costs to remedy…

…If the appeal succeeded, the order to be made would automatically render the proceedings in the High Court unnecessary but an appropriate order for costs would remedy that.…

…continue and even be determined but if the Appellant were to succeed in its appeal the proceedings in the Lower Court will be rendered unnecessary and the court hearing the appeal may make an appropriate order for costs to remedy…

…This type of semi forcible dispossession is not a new thing in Kenya and the Court have found a remedy for it.…

…The Applicant should further show that irreparable injury will occur to him if the injunction is not granted and there is no other remedy open to him by which he will protect himself from the consequences of the apprehended…

…the substantive nature of these shortcomings, it was not enough for the superior court below to lament that the petition before it was not the “epitome of precise, comprehensive, or elegant drafting,” without requiring remedy…

…They have a separate remedy. Further, this application appears an after thought for applicant states that she was called for the reading of the will in April, 1988 and was aware when the petition for Grant was made.…

…But a victim does not lose his remedy in damages merely because its quantification is difficult. I have done my best to quantify it and having approached that evidence with caution, find it eminently reasonable.…

…The learned Judge then proceeded to state as follows with regard to what an applicant must prove in order to be granted an injunction:- The burden thus put on the litigant seeking the equitable remedy of injunction is a heavy…