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Division and case type: CivilCivil Suit
…When he did not agree to this he received a letter Exh 2 dismissing him summarily in accordance with section 17(g) of Employment Act for misappropriating company money as well as absenting himself from work.…
…Since the plaintiff has since then not got any other employment and is not likely to get any, he ought to be paid for all the time he has been without a job and for the future period he is going to be without a job.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Suit
…With regard to wrongful dismissal, every employee in every employment except one expressly excluded by statute has the right not to be unfairly dismissed by his employer.…
…normal measure of damages is the amount an employee would have earned under the contract for the period until the employer could lawfully have terminated it, less the amount he could reasonably be expected to earn in other employment…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…DEFENDANT JUDGMENT The plaintiff Ali Juma Maingi sued his former employer Metal Box (K) Ltd claiming damages for the injuries he sustained as a result of being assaulted by one of his fellow co-employees, in the course of their employment…
…The defendant denied in its defence, that the assault of the plaintiff by his fellow employee occurred in the course of their employment nor was it precipitated by the negligence of the defendant, as assault is a criminal…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…The plaintiff in the present case is still retained in his employment but the fact that the peri-arthritis in the right shoulder is a permanent feature has to be taken into account.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…DEFENDANTS JUDGMENT By this action the plaintiff seeks to recover from the defendants damages for the personal injuries which he suffered when the upper wall of the pit in which he was working in the course of his employment…
…The plaintiff’s residual disability when combined with the fact that he is illiterate render him totally unfit for any gainful employment.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…It states;- “Where any person who falsely represents himself to be a person employed in the public service, and assumes to do any act or to attend in any place for the purpose of doing an act by virtue of such employment…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…In Re Pickles v National Coal Board (Intended Action) [1968] 1 WLR 997, the proposed plaintiff had been employed as a miner by the proposed defendants from 1947 to 1960, when he changed his employment to that of a lathe operator…
…In February, 1966 he became ill and in July, 1966 he was informed by his doctor that he was suffering from silicosis contracted during his employment as a miner.…