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…Chan Wai Tong v Li Ping Sum [1985] 2 WLR 396 Advocates Satish Gautama and K M Pandya for the appellant I T Inamdar for the respondent September 10, 1985, Kneller JA delivered the following Judgment.…

…much physical distress after the operations and the appellant’s advocate harped on the throbbing pain which the appellant has to endure about thrice a week.…

…Very briey what happened in that petition was that the advocates signed the petition as advocates for the petitioner.…

…name of the advocate who he thereby authorizes to act as his advocate.…

…Mr S B M Kariuki, the appellant herein, has in the recent past been the advocate on record for the Hon K S N Matiba.…

…It is obvious to me that to counternance Mr Kariuki’s type of claim would open judges to endless harassment by all manner of malcontents, whether advocates or parties, who might feel that they have unfairly lost their battles…

…We would hope that in future the advocates will not take such shortcuts.…

…The claimant's advocates tend to rely on more serious injury cases to try and obtain larger award whereas defendant's counsel tend to rely on less serious injury awards. Such a practice is unhelpful to courts.…

…When the appellant failed to pay this sum, the respondent instructed its advocates to institute proceedings against the appellant for this sum of 190, 956/70 which together with interest, had by the end of September, 1985…