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…Anyway she decided to check into a 5-star hotel and incurred a liability when from her own admission she had no intention of personally settling the account right from the beginning.…

…Mr Ojiambo who appears for Hilton has submitted before me that as the liability was incurred by the plaintiff and remains unsettled to this day Hilton is entitled to retain the jewellery until the bill is paid.…

…The defendant’s appeal is against both liability and quantum. The plaintiff’s appeal is against quantum only. We shall deal first with the submissions made by Mr. Jiwaji, for the defendant.…

…The appeal against liability must fail and it is dismissed.…

…It is a bank with limited liability and has a registered office in Nairobi. The plaintiff’s claim has been spelled out in a lengthy plaint with a staggering 47 paragraphs.…

…recently been carried out by Bank inspectors into (i) Kshs. 10.5 million fraud at the Market Branch and (ii) the diversion of Kshs. 750,000 due to Pump Maintenance of East Africa Limited, ostensibly to avoid the company’s liability…

…Liability was admitted when the appellant’s claims against the respondent came to trial at the end of June 1982. The only issue was the quantum of damages, special and general, the respondent should pay the appellant.…

…...discloses no reasonable cause of action, and is clearly frivolous and vexatious and an abuse of the court process because of the statutory provisions which give absolute immunity to judges and magistrates, from civil liability…

…The allusions to the Act must of course relate to the exemption of members from personal liability given under section 87 of the Act but as the section itself makes it clear, only matters or things done in good faith are…