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Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…There is today before me, the mention of Appeal No 31 of 1987 for directions as to the hearing of the same. It is necessary for me to recapitulate the courts’ history of the litigation involved.…
…Before the Court of Appeal could list the appeal for hearing, a letter dated the 16th March, 1987 was received from Advocate Mr Khaminwa by the Registry objecting to Judges of Appeal Nyarangi, Platt and Gachuhi to sit in…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…No. 1870/1/92 (the suit land) until the hearing and final determination of an intended appeal.…
…In the circumstances, we allow this application and issue an injunction restraining the plaintiff, his servants and agents from selling, disposing of, transferring or otherwise, dealing with the suit land pending the hearing…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…There is inherent power to restore a case for hearing after it has been dismissed under order 16 rule 6. 2.…
…It follows from this quotation that there is an inherent power to restore a case for hearing after it has been dismissed under order 16, r 6.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…JUDGE OF APPEAL It is also hereby ordered the three appeals filed in this matter by the respondent be listed for hearing at the same time. Dated and delivered at Nairobi this 3rd day of June, 1996. A.M.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Suit
…different advocate the applicant filed an application under a certificate of urgency seeking orders that the respondent be restrained from dealing with the suit land in any manner, taking possession, included, pending the hearing…
…Application for review being of course the main application in that if granted there would be no need for hearing the application for eviction or the application for enlarging of time.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…Rimita, J gave him an ex parte order on 4th July, 1994 and set the application down for hearing inter partes on 19th July, 1994.…
…Judge in the presence of counsel for both parties and by consent the order made the previous day confirming the ex parte injunction was set aside and the application by the respondent dated 29th June, 1994, was fixed for hearing…
Division and case type: Anti-CorruptionCivil Appeal
…This suit is pending before the High Court and I will say no more about it except that on the eve of the resumed hearing of that suit, the appellants led the present suit from which this appeal lies.…
…In his opinion, Mr Keith deponed as follows in Paragraph 32: I verily believe that it would cause a great injustice to SCFS and the Receivers if they were forced to change advocates in the middle of the hearing as complex…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…Pending the hearing of the appeals, the appellant made an application for stay of execution and these are the applications which Justice Shields granted on 17th May 1993 condition of a deposit of Kshs.10,000/= per each appeal…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…NAIROBI/BLOCK 263/1163 in Nairobi by the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Respondents, their agents, servants or whomsoever acting on their behalf pending the hearing and determination of the Petition herein. d.…
…NAIROBI/BLOCK 263/1163, in Nairobi, record of Ownership of the said parcels together with a record of all transactions on the said parcels pending the hearing and determination of the Application and Petition. e.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…This is a strong indication that the judge is to decide the application on hearing one side only. No provision is made for the defendant being heard; and I do not think that we should allow it to be done at this stage.…
…under sections 27, 28 and 30 of the Limitation of Actions Act and if this is in affirmative whether the tortfeasor should be served with the Notice of Appeal, the Record of the proceedings, the judgement / ruling and the Hearing…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…judge in assessing general damages failed to appreciate or to consider the fact that although the loss of one eye by itself would not be regarded as so serious an injury as the loss of one hand or one leg or the loss of hearing…
…in one ear, the loss of sight in both eyes would be a lot more serious than the loss of two legs or two hands or the total loss of hearing, and he should have awarded damages in the light of awards for such injuries.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…application for amendment under rule 44 should be heard first by a single judge, as provided by rule 52 of the rules, without prejudice to the full bench’s right to give leave to amend on an informal application during the hearing…
…In the course of the hearing, the second defendant was permitted to amend his defence against the first defendant, by adding a counter-claim, and a fresh agreed statement of facts was put before the court, with a few facts…
Division and case type: Constitutional and Human RightsPetition
…By an application dated 11th October 2012, Kituo moved the Court seeking further orders of court for the UNHCR to be released from its undertaking to the Court to accommodate the petitioner pending hearing and determination…
…at a prison facility, the respondent contended that the section 43(2)(b) of the KCIA provides an alternative to a holding facility and further that there was no evidence tendered to show that she was not accorded a fair hearing…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…I have no doubt the appellant was taken by surprise by the introduction of the unpleaded cause of action at the hearing, but although his advocate protested he did in fact, to some extent, participate in the consideration…
…Had issues been framed at the hearing, the necessity for amendment of the pleadings would immediately have become apparent, and much trouble and expense avoided.…