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…earlier in Shah Bharmal v Santosh Kumari [1961] EA at p 681, Forbes JA had taken the view that despite the then more restricted discretion given in East Africa than in England by order LVIII rule 15 of the Rules of the Supreme…

…Court, the mistake of a legal adviser could amount to sufficient cause, though in that case there was held to be no mistake but merely inordinate delay, a factor which weighed with the court in Gachau v Karau (supra).…

…Rao referred us to the objects of the 1959 Bill which was stated [as regards section 361 (7) as follows:- “Clauses 38 and 39 make important provisions as to appeals to the Court of Appeal from judgments of the Supreme Court…

…In the case of Samuel Kamau Macharia & another v Kenya Commercial Bank Ltd & 2 others [2012] eKLR, the Supreme Court stated thus - “[68A] A Court’s jurisdiction flows from either the Constitution or legislation or both.…

…The respondent urged that the High Court had no jurisdiction to intervene in a matter that had already been decided by the Court of Appeal; that as stated by the Supreme Court in Samuel Kamau Macharia & Another -vsKenya Commercial…

…There is at the present moment an appeal pending before the Eqyptian Supreme Court in Cairo, where a prominent Islamic academic, who has been declared an apostate for denouncing Hadithi, and his wife, are challenging a “decree…