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…of courts in the two cases are agreed that an express statutory provision conferring, jurisdiction with the majority in MUNENE’s case holding that such express statutory authorization is to be found in section 66 of the Civil…

…Procedure Act, Cap 21, while the majority in NJERU’s case thought that section 66 of the Civil Procedure Act does not provide a basis for the assumption of jurisdiction by the court.…

…This appeal arose from the appellant’s plaint having been struck out and dismissed on application by respondent under order VI rule 13 of the Civil Procedure Rules on grounds that: (a) It disclosed no reasonable cause of…

…Founding himself upon order VI rule 13 of the Civil Procedure Rules, he asked Aluoch, J to strike out Mr Kairiuki’s plaint because it disclosed no reasonabale cause of action, was frivolous and vexatious and was an abuse…

…That the provisions of order XXXIX of the Civil Procedure Rules do not apply to this suit at all. A suit by a ratepayer must in law be by judicial review and not a plaint. (3).…

…An application should have been made by summons in chambers under order 1 rule 22 of the Civil Procedure Rules.…

…The Attorney-General having refused to terminate the proceedings as hoped for by the Constitutional Court, the applicant, after obtaining leave under Order LIII rule 1(2) of the Civil Procedure Rules, by motion filed on September…

…The foregoing orders made by the Acting Chief Justice were also in accord with the spirit of the provisions of section359 (2) of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cap 75), and section69 of the Civil Procedure Act (Cap 21), to…