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Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL AT NAIROBI (Coram:Hancox JA) CIVIL APPLICATION NO NAI 56 OF 1983 BETWEEN SAMUEL MBUGUA GITHERE …….........……APPLICANT AND KIMUNGU…………………………………RESPONDENT (In an intended appeal from the High Court at Nairobi, Gachuhi J) RULING This application is in two parts, the first to extend the time for filing the notice of appeal and the second to extend the time for instituting the appeal which, the applicant’s notice of motion filed on November 15, 1983, states: “... shall be made
Division and case type: CivilMiscellaneous Application
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL AT NAIROBI (Coram: Hancox, J A (In Chambers) CIVIL APPLICATION NO NAI 40 OF 1983 (In the matter of an intended appeal) BETWEEN 1. CLEOPHAS MASINDE SIMIYU……..………………………...APPLICANTS 2.
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
What, today, is the correct approach of a court to an application for summary judgment under order XXXV rule 1 where there is a claim on a note and the defence is a set-off or counterclaim? Should the payment due on it be held up until the trial of the set-off or counterclaim has been heard?
Division and case type: Milimani Commercial CourtsCriminal Appeal
REPUBLIC OF KENYA IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA AT NAIROBI CRIMINAL APPEAL 357 OF 1983 OKELLO ODERO..................................................................APPELLANT VERSUS REPUBLIC..........................................................................RESPONDENT (Appeal from the Senior Resident Magistrate’s Court, at Machakos)
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
ORDER Mr Khanna, for the appellants, by a motion on notice of February 2, 1984, expressed to be brought under rules 42 and 96 of the Court of Appeal Rules, asks this court to substitute as a party to the appeal in place of the late second appellant, Ajit Gurbaksh Singh, either Harbans Kaur, the widow, or one or both of the named executors of the deceased’s will who are Amrik Singh Gurbaksh Singh and Joginder Singh Gurbaksh Singh, the third and fifth appellants, and the hearing of the appeal
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL AT MALINDI CIVIL APPEAL 12 OF 83 MUTUKU AND ASSOCIATES…………..………………………….APPELLANT AND FELIX R M KITONGA & BROS LTD…………………………………RESPONDENT (From the ruling of the High Court of Kenya at Mombasa (Schofield, J) dated 16th December, 1982) Civil Suit No 65 & 513 of 1978 (Consolidated) _______________ RULING OF THE COURT HANCOX, J A It has been held, repeatedly, by this court that failure to include the formally drawn up decree or order embodying the decision of the court
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
Ndaa v Republic Court of Appeal, at Mombasa January 24, 1984 Hancox JA, Chesoni and Nyarangi Ag JJA Criminal Appeal No 146 of 1983 Criminal law - assault causing actual bodily harm - ingredients of the offence - how plea of the offence taken - Penal Code s 251. Plea - plea of guilty - pleading to offence of assault causing actual bodily harm - what amounts to plea of guilty to such offence - Penal Code s 251.
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
REPUBLIC OF KENYA IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA AT NAIROBI MILIMANI LAW COURTS CIVIL CASE NO 1150 OF 1983 PETER NJENGA……………………………………………………………....PAINTIFF VERSUS JAMES FINLAY (E A) HOLDINGS LTD………………………….................1ST DEFENDANT ENDESHA LTD……………………………………………………................2ND DEFENDANT RULING The plaintiff/applicant moved the court by way of Chamber Summons dated 2nd September 1983 for orders that the defendant’s herein be restrained from borrowing further sums of money using a security
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
seeking inter alia an order vacating the caution, and on an interlocutory motion obtained an order vacating the caution. On appeal the Court of Appeal held that the court had power on motion under s 82(1) of the Land Registration Act 1925 to order that a caution be vacated when it was shown that the caution ought not to have been made.
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
REPUBLIC OF KENYA IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA AT NAIROBI CIVIL CASE NO 3636 OF 1981 ALFRED MUHUHO………………………………………………………...................PLAINTIFF AND PIUS MWANGI WANGEREKA………………………………………….....................DEFENDANT