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…Although Section 3(2) of the Magistrate’s Court Act confers countrywide jurisdiction to a resident magistrate’s court, in civil cases such jurisdiction is exercised subject to the limitation to the said court’s jurisdiction…

…transfer a suit from a court which is seized of it but has no jurisdiction to determine it to a court vested with jurisdiction.…

…Accordingly, this court has no jurisdiction to hear and determine stale proceedings. 19.…

…The question is, did the Magistrate’s court have the jurisdiction to tax the advocate/client bill of costs? 24. Jurisdiction is everything, without which, a court of law acts in vain.…

…Firstly, section 28 confers upon this court the jurisdiction to extend such responsibility.…

…Secondly the Constitution of Kenya also confers upon this court unlimited original jurisdiction in all matters both of a civil and criminal nature.…

…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.…

…There was also a prayer for the court to make such other or further order as the court may deem necessary to make in its inherent jurisdiction, plus costs of the application.…

…There was also a prayer for the court to make such other or further order as the court may deem necessary to make in its inherent jurisdiction, plus costs of the application.…