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…to complete the works @ Shs 10,000.00 a week 70,000 00 TOTAL 217,871 12 Which the contractor refused to pay the employer who filed a plaint in the High Court in Nairobi in December 1976 claiming that sum with costs and interest…

…His judgment was for the employer against the contractor for Shs 107,915.00 with interest on that sum at eight per cent a year from December 2, 1976 to March 31, 1982 which amounted to Shs 46,027.95 and further interest at…

…plaintiff testified that after the vehicle was stolen he was unable to pay the hire purchase charges to the hire-purchase company which eventually successfully sued him for the balance of the hire purchase amount and accrued interest…

…mind, the claim is reasonable and having not been challenged in crossexamination I allow the figure, with the result that I give judgment to the plaintiff against the defendant in the sum of Kshs.872,360/= with costs and interest…

…We allow this appeal and set aside the conviction and sentence and in the interest of justice we order an expeditious retrial before any other judge of the High Court. These are our orders.…

…The statement is not required to contain the evidence which has come to the knowledge of the Governor and which it may be against the public interest to disclose.…

…To give particulars would not be in the public interest he said. They might disclose the manner in which the information was obtained and perhaps endanger the person who obtained the details.…

…When the Rules prescribe some circumstances in which a temporary injunction may be issued then ordinarily the court cannot use its inherent powers to make orders in the interest of justice or to prevent abuse of the process…

…The Supreme Court held that the temporary injunction was therefore not an appropriate exercise of the court’s inherent jurisdiction to make any necessary orders in the interest of justice or to prevent abuse of the process…

…This appeal is of undoubted considerable interest because it involves a suit which was brought by the appellant who is a member of the legal profession and as is common knowledge, one time Chairman of the Law Society of Kenya…

…Apart from this uniqueness of the suit, it also raises important issues of public interest and the independence of the Judiciary.…

…satisfactory trial” see also Braganza v R [1957] E A 152 Pyrall M Bassan v R, [1960] EA 854 and George Karanja Mwangi & others v R Criminal Appeal No 132 of 1983 (unreported) A re-trial may also be ordered if it is in the interest…

…No disagreement arose until 1969, by which time the personal respondent’s son had acquired an interest which gave him and his father a controlling interest in the company.…

…company; (ii) and agreement, or understanding that all, or some (for there maybe “sleeping” members), of the shareholders shall participate in the conduct of the business; (iii) restriction upon the transfer of the members’ interest…

…of Criminal Appeal No. 363 of 2006 was discriminatory, unconstitutional, and a breach of his fundamental rights; that the High Court sitting as a constitutional court should award him appropriate relief; and that in the interest…