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…The lessee shall supply to the lessors a true copy of the instrument of such transfer, assignment or subletting and pay the fees of the lessors’ advocates for perusing such instrument and witnessing the lessors’ consent thereon…

…Accordingly the first four respondents wrote through their advocates, Messrs Atkinson, Clearly and Satchu, seeking the appellant’s consent to the proposed assignment to the Pereiras’ by a letter dated October 7, 1985.…

…We would hope that in future the advocates will not take such shortcuts.…

…The claimant's advocates tend to rely on more serious injury cases to try and obtain larger award whereas defendant's counsel tend to rely on less serious injury awards. Such a practice is unhelpful to courts.…

…By their letter of 23rd September, 1997 the respondent's then advocates M/s Mbai & Kibuthu wrote to the Managing Director of the applicant seeking documents to enable them to prepare the transfer of the suit property to the…

…I assume it was until the receipt of the letter from the defendants’ advocates. Why did he not continue to do so?…

…The question for decision in this appeal is whether the expenditure incurred by the taxpayer appellant in payment of legal costs to the advocates for its bankers in connection with preparation of security documents to provide…

…The Advocates, Messrs. Shapley Barrett & Company prepared the necessary legal documents providing security and tendered their fee note. The total demanded was Shs 52,987.50.…

…Anupchand and vijay sent for the police about 5 times in as many years, complained to the Mombasa Chamber of commerce, and to the Registrar of Business Names and prodded Mr parker, their advocate, into sending ‘Kaykay’ a…

…Each was denied access to his family and to his advocate until they were brought before the court which was 3 days later. Relatives brought food for them and were made to each some before Anupchand and Vijay did.…

…It would probably be enough debt to crush or to silence anyone else in the applicant’s position, but he has a passionate desire to qualify as an advocate and to be admitted to the Roll under section 13 of the Advocates Act…

…According to him, Quadrant Services Limited is controlled by the firm of Messrs Kaplan & Stratton, advocates.…

…At all material times therefore, he caused one Michael E Aronson, a partner in the said firm of advocates to be appointed as a director of Stones Limited.…

…On his second appeal to this Court, the appellant exhibited a curious reticence in lodging his memorandum of appeal, and over a year’s delay in the hearing was caused by an alleged hiatus between himself and his advocates…

…So the summons of August 19 was rightly brought under section 3A of the Civil Procedure Act (but not Rules as the respondents’ advocates carelessly put it). There were no grounds for invoking it in this case.…

…The amount involved will be placed in an interest bearing account in the joint names of the Advocates for both parties. The appellants will have the costs of this appeal to be taxed if not agreed.…

…The corporation’s letter was followed up by another one of July 1st in which it stated that neither the appellant nor his advocates had indicated whether and when he would be willing to accept further office from the corporation…

…Mr Goswami is an advocate of the High Court and he appeared with Mr Oraro for the principal respondents in the superior court as well as this Court. The Father does not accept that Rai Ply is run as a family company.…

…Alternatively, each party may appoint one arbitrator and the two arbitrators so appointed would then choose an umpire who should preferably be a senior advocate or chartered accountant registered to practise in Kenya.…

…The appellant claimed, by his plaint, that the second respondent (who was served but failed to enter appearance as a result of which judgment was entered against him as prayed on the application of the advocate for the plaintiff…

…Karuri in turn filed suit against Ndoo and his employee, Kituo, the bus driver, for damages arising out of Kituo’s negligence but later, Karuri’s advocate withdrew it for reasons which were not vouchsafed to this court.…

…When the appellant failed to pay this sum, the respondent instructed its advocates to institute proceedings against the appellant for this sum of 190, 956/70 which together with interest, had by the end of September, 1985…

…THAT I am advised by the Applicant’s advocate, Mr.…

…THAT I am advised by our Advocate on record, Mr.…

…It is true that in the instant case Mr Inamdar, in his eloquent tearing to shreds of the plaintiff’s advocates pleading, did not regard this aspect of the appeal as material, stating that it was not necessary to his appeal…