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…and cannot be reopened by the High Court; and that an error in the decision of the Court of Appeal cannot be said to be a violation of the right to a fair hearing.…

…The effect of such violations is to vitiate the trial to such extent that it amounts to no trial” [13] The appellant asserted that he was not accorded a fair hearing, nor was the hearing by the Court of Appeal conducted in…

…In making reference to Constitutional Petition No. 50 of 2020, he indicated that it came up for hearing on 28th July, 2020 before Judge E.…

…It was submitted that the lower court case came up for hearing on 29th July, 2020 but Mr.…

…Counsel further applied that the presiding judge do disqualify himself from hearing the renewed bail application as he had rejected the previous one and was thus looking to reach the same conclusion in the current one.…

…It was suggested in submission by counsel for the applicant that an applicant for bail under section 123(3) was entitled to trail his coat through every court and before every judge for fresh hearing. Held: 1.…

…There is inherent power to restore a case for hearing after it has been dismissed under order 16 rule 6. 2.…

…It follows from this quotation that there is an inherent power to restore a case for hearing after it has been dismissed under order 16, r 6.…

…different advocate the applicant filed an application under a certificate of urgency seeking orders that the respondent be restrained from dealing with the suit land in any manner, taking possession, included, pending the hearing…

…Application for review being of course the main application in that if granted there would be no need for hearing the application for eviction or the application for enlarging of time.…

…We are concerned at the absence of a representative from the office of the Attorney General although that office was notified of the hearing date, for this appeal, on 11th August, 1999.…

…Rimita, J gave him an ex parte order on 4th July, 1994 and set the application down for hearing inter partes on 19th July, 1994.…

…Judge in the presence of counsel for both parties and by consent the order made the previous day confirming the ex parte injunction was set aside and the application by the respondent dated 29th June, 1994, was fixed for hearing…

…The appellant’s Memorandum of Appeal to this Court was filed in its Nakuru sub-registry on January 23rd 1984, (almost another two months lost there) and we are now hearing this appeal 6 months later.…

…NAIROBI/BLOCK 263/1163 in Nairobi by the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Respondents, their agents, servants or whomsoever acting on their behalf pending the hearing and determination of the Petition herein. d.…

…NAIROBI/BLOCK 263/1163, in Nairobi, record of Ownership of the said parcels together with a record of all transactions on the said parcels pending the hearing and determination of the Application and Petition. e.…

…All this applies to the hearing of an appeal and not only a re-trial.…

…Accordingly, the judgment of the High Court is set aside and it is ordered that this appeal shall be listed before a different judge of the High Court for hearing according to law.…

…judge in assessing general damages failed to appreciate or to consider the fact that although the loss of one eye by itself would not be regarded as so serious an injury as the loss of one hand or one leg or the loss of hearing…

…in one ear, the loss of sight in both eyes would be a lot more serious than the loss of two legs or two hands or the total loss of hearing, and he should have awarded damages in the light of awards for such injuries.…

…application for amendment under rule 44 should be heard first by a single judge, as provided by rule 52 of the rules, without prejudice to the full bench’s right to give leave to amend on an informal application during the hearing…

…In the course of the hearing, the second defendant was permitted to amend his defence against the first defendant, by adding a counter-claim, and a fresh agreed statement of facts was put before the court, with a few facts…

…By an application dated 11th October 2012, Kituo moved the Court seeking further orders of court for the UNHCR to be released from its undertaking to the Court to accommodate the petitioner pending hearing and determination…

…at a prison facility, the respondent contended that the section 43(2)(b) of the KCIA provides an alternative to a holding facility and further that there was no evidence tendered to show that she was not accorded a fair hearing…

…He held that this is a matter which should be decided by the Judge hearing the probate cause led by Wamaitha. There can be no doubt that in taking this view, the Judge was right.…

…The facts with which these proceedings are concerned have been the subject of a hearing before the superior court when the plaintis called twelve witnesses and the defendant called nine and the hearing took a total of 30…

…The application was mainly argued on the point of law as no defence had been filed and even if it was placed on the file at the time of the hearing it was never relied upon by the trial judge in her ruling.…

…Upon the inter partes hearing of the application the learned judge of the High Court in her ruling concluded that the suit against the respondent: “...discloses no reasonable cause of action, and is clearly frivolous and…

…At the hearing of the appeal a more careful case was presented.…

…The hearing before this Court, is the appeal by the appellant against the judgment of the learned judge of the High Court. His twelve grounds of appeal can be distilled into two main grounds.…

…afforded reasonable facilities to consult a legal representative of his own choice who shall be permitted to make representations to the tribunal appointed for the review of the case of the detained person; and (e) at the hearing…