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Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…Service on an agent is essentially second hand; second best. Service of process is so crucial a matter in litigation that courts including Deputy Registrars must encourage the best of service; i.e personal service.…
…As Nyarangi, JA has correctly pointed out, service of process is so crucial a matter in litigation that courts must encourage the best of service – personal service. 24.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…It is not correct to say that a service which is not entirely satisfactory and by itself might have to be set aside, cannot ever become a good service.…
…Personal service is the ideal, but it may not be possible to achieve. Rule 9 commences with the words “whenever it is practicable’” before providing for personal service.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…This view coloured an attitude to regulation 25 of the Public Service Regulations, so much so that a probation order came to be seen as tantamount to an acquittal.…
…The reason is that the Court felt it impossible to force the services of an employee on to an employer, when the latter had lost all confidence and trust in the employee.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…..........RESPONDENT (Appeal from the High Court at Kisumu, Schofield J) JUDGMENT The appellant was convicted by the Resident Magistrate at Kisumu of the offence of stealing Shs 14,500 by a person employed in the Public Service…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…Dr Shabbir Ahmed is of course, himself physically, beyond the reach, or jurisdiction, of this court, but he has submitted to it through his advocates whose address is his address for service.…
…no doubt that, whether or not the power of attorney is in strict conformity with the Kenya law, it nevertheless constitutes Shakeel a recognised agent under order 3 rule 2 of the Civil Procedure Rules, for the purpose of service…