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…The courts jurisdiction has not been properly invoked as order 5 [1] Rule 7 of the Civil Procedure Rules is applicable only where summons expire before they are served upon the defendant. 2.…

…This honorable court lacks jurisdiction to issue the orders as sought. 3. The application is vexatious and a blatant abuse of the due process of the honourable court and ought to be struck out.…

…It was instructive that the Applicant filed the application when another Judge (Bwonwong’a J) had assumed jurisdiction in this court after the transfer of Chemitei J.…

…It was apparent that the Applicant wrongly presumed that since Chemitei J no longer exercised jurisdiction in this court, then another Judge would consider his application on the same issue which a ruling had already been…

…The jurisdiction of the Court to entertain an application pursuant to section 84(1) is specific.…

…The applicant is obliged to bring his application within the ambit of that section before the Court can have jurisdiction to entertain and determine it.…

…Section 382 of the Criminal Procedure Code states: “Subject to the provisions herein before contained, no finding, sentence or order passed by a court of competent jurisdiction shall be reversed on appeal or revision on account…

…reminder to magistrates that it is the primary duty of a magistrate to satisfy himself that the section of the Penal Code, and I should add to that any other law, under which an accused is charged is correct before assuming jurisdiction…

…In some Commonwealth jurisdictions, such right is vested in the chief Justice or some other statutorily designated body or entity.…

…Even courts whose jurisdiction is inferior to this Court and who are ordinarily bound under our doctrine of stare decisis, have consistently defied rather than followed it.…