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…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.…

…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.…

…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.…

…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…

…But the learned Judge did not specifically say she disbelieved his oral evidence with regard to his previous employment.…

…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.…

…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.…

…Generally speaking once an employee has been dismissed that terminates his employment.…

…The judge called for further information on the scrap blue of the vehicle and the respondent plaintiff’s loss of employment prospects which was conscientious and proper for him.…

…Anyway, the evidence revealed that the loss of half is salary for six months, apart, Olenja returned to his employment on full salary and it increased annually.…

…In that short sentence he did not explain the nature of his self-employment.…

…The Thika project also depends, we were told, on the help of the Treasury and various departments that deal with land, forests, water, employment of labour, customs duties and taxes.…

…this Court, comprised of a different bench, made an order (hereafter referred to as the order) restraining the respondent corporation from retiring the two applicants from its service or otherwise interfering with their employment…

…If the attack is all over and no sort of peril remains, then the employment of force may be by way of revenge or punishment or by way of paying off an old score or may be pure aggression.…