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…Courts are the ultimate custodians of the rights and liberties of people whatever the status and there is no rule of law that courts will abdicate jurisdiction merely because the proceedings or enquiry are of an internal…

…In their suit in the superior court the appellants alleged that the board instituted proceedings without any notice to them whereby their right to the award of the Diploma was taken away without their having an opportunity…

…DAMJI PATTNI.........................APPLICANT AND NASIR IBRAHIM ALI DINKY INTERNATIONAL SA WORLD DUTY FREE COMPANY LIMITED KENYA DUTY FREE COMPLEX................................RESPONDENTS (Application for stay of all proceedings…

…The registry of the superior court informed the respondent that the copies of proceedings and ruling bespoken by the respondent were ready. This was by the letter dated 3/2/97.…

…Order 75, (the Order), the Supreme Court Practice, 1988 of England had provided for admiralty proceedings.…

…Where a court had no jurisdiction, there would be no basis for a continuation of proceedings pending other evidence.…

…affected by the appeal: Provided that the Court on application, which may be made ex parte within seven days after lodging the notice of appeal, direct that service need not be effected on any person who took no part in the proceedings…

…He submitted that Karugu Contractors was a person directly affected by the appeal because it took part in the proceedings in the superior court and a decree was passed against it jointly and severally with the first and second…

…After viewing the proceedings in July 1998 this application was not filed until, as I have already seen, 4th September, 1998. There is no explanation for this long delay.…

…Under the certificate of delay the copies of the proceedings were ready on 7th October, 1997 but the appeal was not filed until 19th December, 1997 well out of the prescribed time.…

…An application for copies of proceedings (copied to the other side) was made on 10 March, 1999 and these were collected on 8 May, 1998 . The last day, therefore, for the filing of the appeal, as Mrs.…

…It also appears from a not very satisfactory record of appeal that proceedings to have the 1st respondent committed to civil jail for contempt were instituted at some stage and in consequence he was ordered by the Court to…

…question of inordinate delay we have earlier given a history of events which tend to show that in 1980 when the 2nd respondent, who first came to learn of the suit, when she was being evicted in consequence of execution proceedings…

…The applicant has copies of the proceedings, rulings and orders in the matter before the High Court, which he asked for on May, 4, and copied his letter to the Law Society so it knows the applicant is appealing.…

…He has not referred to section 63 of the Civil Procedure Act (cap 21) which summarises the general powers of the court in regard to interlocutory proceedings. It provides, inter alia – “63.…

…Chunga invoked the revisionary jurisdiction of the High Court and having done so the parties to the proceedings before Patel, J were the appellant and the Republic.…

…By virtue of section 361 (7) the proceedings before Patel, J are deemed to have been conducted pursuant to the appellate jurisdiction of the High Court and accordingly the appellant who was a party to the proceedings before…

…I am told that the applicant's counsel, in those circumstances, took it to mean that the applicant had 60 days to file the record of appeal from the date the applicant's counsel received copies of proceedings and ruling which…

…As the copies of proceedings and ruling were applied for on 17th March, 1997 (Ruling of Mbito, J having been delivered on 22nd day of February, 1997) the applicant had the benefit of the proviso to rule 81(1) of the Rules…

…There is no question that the Court has power, under VIA rule 3(1) of the Civil Procedure Rules to allow an amendment, at any stage of the proceedings, on such terms as to costs or otherwise as may be just and under rule…

…The appellant now complains that the amendment should not have been allowed at such a late stage of the proceedings.…

…At this juncture, it is worth noting that although the record of the proceedings before the trial judge indicate that the summing-up to the assessors was done on 15th December, 1993 by the trial judge, the latter made no…

…Regarding the absence of summing-up notes on the record of the proceedings before the learned trial judge, we would only echo the words of the Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa in the case of Samusoni Mukono and another…

…It follows therefore that the proceedings presided over by the Commissioner of Assize, Beham are a nullity in law. There is one more matter of relevance.…

…We therefore order that the proceedings be remitted to the High Court for the hearing of additional evidence as indicated, and limited to the extent stated in the application. Costs in the appeal. So ordered.…

…it is necessary for the determination of the real matter in dispute to do so, order any other person to be substituted or added as plaintiff upon such terms as the court thinks fit. (2) The court may at any stage of the proceedings…

…Under sub-rule (2) the judge could at any stage of the proceedings, “either upon or without the application of either party,’ exercise his discretion and order the substitution of the proper party.…

…The plaintiff declined and proceeded to apply to the Registrar to register a caveat, whose extension he required to enable him to institute court proceedings and finalise the intended suit for specific performance.…

…For these reasons, I am unable to agree with the conclusions of the High Court and I, therefore, would allow the appeal with costs and costs of the High Court proceedings and order that the order dated December 20, 1988 be…

…The appellant then instituted these proceedings for the recovery of salary for 12 months.…