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…Her disabilities were nothing exceptional and that while she was deserving of a generous award, an award of Kshs 910,000 is by any standards known to us in Kenya out of keeping with awards for comparable injuries.…

…Inamdar relied is Zablon Mariga v Musila, C A No 166 of 1982 for the proposition that severe injuries are bound to have severe consequences and that awards in such cases do provide for resultant disabilities.…

…effectually and completely to adjudicate upon and settle all questions involved in the suit, be added. (3) No person shall be added as a plaintiff suing without a next friend or as the next friend of a plaintiff under any disability…

…In comparison with the Law of Limitations Act (cap 22); the Land Control Act (cap 302) does not provide for any period of disability which may be excluded.…

…In view of the treatment needed, it was too early to say what the resultant disability would be. How the appellant reached to this unfortunate state of affairs is not clear from the record.…

…Subsection(3) referred to in subsection (1) of section 114 as is set out above concerns representation of persons under disability in matters connected with the Act. 60.…

…in pursuance of a power of attorney registered under section 116 shall not be liable in respect of the payment or act by reason only that before the payment or act the donor of the power had died or become subject to a disability…

…his application for the annual practising certificate one or two other members, none of whom shall be less than seven years standing to administer his firm in the event on his death., disbarment, imprisonment or any other disability…

…his application for the annual practising certificate one or two other members, none of whom shall be less than seven years standing to administer his firm in the event on his death., disbarment, imprisonment or any other disability…

…I agree that Kshs 475,000 is the right figure to be substituted for it, remembering that no money award can ever compensate the appellant for his tragic disability.…

…his application for the annual practising certificate one or two other members, none of whom shall be less than seven years standing to administer his firm in the event on his death., disbarment, imprisonment or any other disability…

…Mr Juma conceded this and in any case the appellant did not allege that the cause of non-compliance with this Act was due to any disability within the meaning of section 5 thereof.…

…moment, section 2(2) of the Law Reform (Limitation of Actions, etc) Act, 1954 substituted a period of three years for six years for someone to whom a right of action for damages for personal injuries accrued was under a disability…

…On the issue of limitation he submitted that the appellant's husband having deponed in an affidavit in support of his application for leave that he became aware of the fact of his accident in 1986 any disability he may have…

…In personal injury cases there is frequently an element of delay in the trial of an action, because it is often not possible for those in medical charge of the case to assess the degree of permanent and/ or residual disability…

…In my view the arguments based on the respondent’s disability, and so much harped upon by the Election Court judges, disappear into nothingness in face of this authority which, Mr Inamdar very rightly surmised, supported…