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…Filed along the plaint is a Chamber Summons in which the plaintiff seeks interim orders of injunction to issue under Order XXXIX Rules 1 and 2 of the Civil Procedure Rules based on the grounds that the piece of land in question…

…Consequently the plaint filed in this court and Chamber Summons dated the 12th May 2003 amounts to abuse of the process of court and are hereby struck out under Order VI Rule 13(1) (d) of the Civil Procedure Rules.…

…that the plaint is not accompanied by a verifying affidavit as required under Order 17 and therefore, defective and that because the affidavit is defective and does not comply with requirements of Order 18 of the Civil Procedure…

…Rules in that it fails to distinguish between averments of knowledge and belief or grounds and source of the same, thirdly, that quashing the Commissioner’s action ought to be by a Judicial Review application for certiorari…

…At the trial, the Attorney General, the Respondent here took a Preliminary Objection saying that the motion offends the Provisions of Order 1 Rule vi 12 of the Civil Procedure Rules and that the cause of action in this matter…

…No. 133 of 2001 provides rules of access under Section 84(b) of the Constitution being ‘The Constitution of Kenya (Protection of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms of the Individual) Practice and Procedure Rules, 2001), as directed…

…DEFENDANT R U L I N G The defendant invoked the discretionary power of this court under Order XX rule 11 (2) of the civil Procedure rules by filing a chamber summons dated 10th September, 2003 in which he sought to liquidate…

…Or indeed whether the Act permitted service of a petition by advertisement in a newspaper as if the election petition was a plaint governed by the Civil Procedure Act and Rules.…

…Rules and any other statutes should not be applied when computing time..........”…

…The rule 14 (2) does not require personal service, for comparison only as to where the law requires personal service, it is to be seen that the provisions of Civil Procedure Rule order V rule 9 provides “Wherever it is practicable…

…For example order 5 Civil Procedure Rules dealing with service of summons in ordinary cases dealing with mode of service directs rule 7.…