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…himself risks necessarily incidental to him employment.…

…It is an implied term of employment that an employer will make the conditions of employment to his employee absolutely safe and will not expose his employees to any danger to avoid any negligence, but will not be responsible…

…However, permanent employment does not mean that it is necessarily employment for life or until retirement, it merely means that the employment is to continue for an indefinite period with an element of permanency and a degree…

…His contract of employment with the defendant was terminated.…

…Thus, a master is not liable for negligence committed outside the scope of his employment.…

…The County Court judge decided that at the time of the accident, the coachman was not acting within the scope of his employment.…

…With regard to the claim for salary and house allowance for the period the appellant was unemployed we agree with the finding of the learned judge that the appellant had not deserted his employment.…

…The appellant later had no difficulty in getting a work-permit when he obtained new employment.…

…The employment, to begin with, was terminable by a notice of one month on either side.…

…Romsalves who was at the time of giving evidence no more in the employment of K.G.G.C.U. She had no axe to grind and her evidence was credit-worthy.…

…However, on December 11 1977, the security guard Moses Aila, stole 16 cases or caused them to be stolen, in the course of his employment.…

…It is said that the act complained of was not within the scope of the employment of the guard and was wholly unauthorized.…

…The said contract also contained a provision by which the employment of the appellant could be terminated by one months’ notice. The respondent on 15th February, 1992, terminated the appellant’s services.…

…The grounds of appeal aver that the learned judge acted on a wrong principal of law in holding that the appellant was not entitled to the claim for a year’s salary under the contract of employment.…

…Indeed, even under the Employment Act (cap 226) an employer may summarily dismiss a servant who is guilty of a criminal offence, (see sec 17(g)).…

…Having considered direct cases of disqualification one can demonstrate the difference between those cases and the termination of employment.…

…JUDGMENT This is an appeal from a judgment of Bhandari J following a hearing which took place at Mombasa to determine the claim of the appellant as plaintiff that the defendant summarily and wrongfully dismissed him from his employment…

…The defendant’s contention is that whilst in the employment of the defendant as a toll collector, the defendant falsified entries in the ticket machine used by him in the course of collecting fares at the ferry, causing the…

…Your passionate submission dated March 17, 1977 has been rendered void by the developments quoted in paragraph 1 of this letter wherein it shows that your client has of his own volition accepted employment in Nakuru.”…

…The whole arrangement may have amounted to a device for getting his pension early and continuing in remunerative employment.…

…The court was referred to decisions of the High Court allowing for valuable remunerated employment after retirement from the Civil Service, and the courts would do well to consider that situation whenever it arises.…

…If a civil servant has prospects of further employment which he would lose, no doubt account should be taken to that. In the present case for some reason that was not put forward.…

…At all material times the plaintiff was employed by the defendant as a loading booking clerk. 4) It was a term of the said contract of employment between the plaintiff and the defendant and/or it was the duty of the defendant…

…to take all reasonable precautions for the safety of the plaintiff while he was engaged upon the said employment, not to expose the plaintiff to a risk to damage or injury of which they knew and ought to have known and to…

…On the contrary, there is nothing which would contradict the appellant’s testimony that he obtained the documents in the course of his employment in connection with the three wheat consignments.…

…Our clerk left our employment in between. I believe.”…

…In the other case, it was stated that “our” clerk left the advocate’s employment.…

…We do not know if the learned Judge rejected this claim on the ground that the appellant, being a refugee in Kenya, was, by law, not allowed to engage in employment or on the ground that there was no sufficient evidence to…

…On the contrary, there is nothing which would contradict the appellant’s testimony that he obtained the documents in the course of his employment in connection with the three wheat consignments.…

…I, therefore, turn to Mr Inamdar’s second authority, which was the only one relating to personal injury, though not one in the course of employment namely Plotti v The Acacia Co [1959] EA 218, in which Law JA as he later…

…Paragraph 4 of the plaint which was admitted in the defence filed on behalf of the defendant is in the following terms: (4) It was a term of the said contract of employment between the defendant(s) and the plaintiff and or…

…Accordingly, we substitute for the conviction recorded against the appellant a conviction of stealing the lesser sum of Shs 4,500, the property of the Republic of Kenya, which came into his possession by virtue of his employment…

…In Re Pickles v National Coal Board (Intended Action) [1968] 1 WLR 997, the proposed plaintiff had been employed as a miner by the proposed defendants from 1947 to 1960, when he changed his employment to that of a lathe operator…

…In February, 1966 he became ill and in July, 1966 he was informed by his doctor that he was suffering from silicosis contracted during his employment as a miner.…

…He further alleges that at the time of the accident the two vehicles were being driven by their respective drivers as the servants or agents of their respective owners in the course of their employment and/or within the scope…