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…He urged this court not to micro-manage the proceedings before the Trial Court. 15.…

…The lower court proceedings reveal that on 28th January, 2020 the plea against the applicants was taken in Shanzu Law Courts.…

…The appellant sought to have an order for retrial, asserting that it was in the interests of justice to order a retrial where the record of proceedings has been tampered with in an appeal, and fair hearing cannot be achieved…

…The record shows that the complaint relating to the record of appeal was in fact raised and addressed during the proceedings.…

…The proceedings arose from Criminal Case No 5167 of 1990 in the Court of the Chief Magistrate in Nairobi by way of committal proceedings prepared under part VIII of the Criminal Procedure Code.…

…The relevant records appear at pages 35, 36, 44 and 45 of the typed copy of the lower court’s proceedings.…

…17th day of July, 1996 in H.C.C.C NO. 2523 & 533 OF 1982) ********************* RULING OF THE COURT The present application seeks several orders namely that the appeal filed by the respondent be struck out, that contain proceedings…

…and orders of the superior court to set aside, that a Receiver appointed in respect of the applicant company do file proofs of debt and stay of proceedings.…

…A final judgment of a competent Court in any criminal proceedings which declares any person to be guilty of a criminal offence shall, after the expiry of the time limited for an appeal against such judgment or after the date…

…complains about the learned judge awarding a sum of shs.80,000/= under the Law Reform Act when the respondent had not taken out letters of administration for the estate of her deceased husband at the time she instituted the proceedings…

…Unfortunately, Hariben died on July 3, 1980, with the result that there was a consent order in the High Court substituting Ranchod, as administrator of the Estate of Hariben, as second defendant, and, the proceedings before…

…Under section 2 of the Civil Procedure Act, “suit” means all civil proceedings commenced in any manner prescribed.…

…He thought that he could not bring proceedings until the persons found by the magistrate to have been responsible for the death of his son had been charged with a criminal offence.…

…It would appear that notwithstanding the provisions of section 27 of the Act, the question whether or not the plaintiff was entitled to the extension can only be challenged in the proceedings.…

…It also appears from a not very satisfactory record of appeal that proceedings to have the 1st respondent committed to civil jail for contempt were instituted at some stage and in consequence he was ordered by the Court to…

…question of inordinate delay we have earlier given a history of events which tend to show that in 1980 when the 2nd respondent, who first came to learn of the suit, when she was being evicted in consequence of execution proceedings…

…affected by the appeal: Provided that the Court on application, which may be made ex parte within seven days after lodging the notice of appeal, direct that service need not be effected on any person who took no part in the proceedings…

…He submitted that Karugu Contractors was a person directly affected by the appeal because it took part in the proceedings in the superior court and a decree was passed against it jointly and severally with the first and second…

…Order 75, (the Order), the Supreme Court Practice, 1988 of England had provided for admiralty proceedings.…

…Chunga invoked the revisionary jurisdiction of the High Court and having done so the parties to the proceedings before Patel, J were the appellant and the Republic.…

…By virtue of section 361 (7) the proceedings before Patel, J are deemed to have been conducted pursuant to the appellate jurisdiction of the High Court and accordingly the appellant who was a party to the proceedings before…

…filed its grounds of opposition and took out a motion on notice under sections 3A, 6 and 7 of the Civil Procedure Act and Order VI rule 13 (1)(a) and (d) of the Civil Procedure Rules for, inter alia, an order of (a) stay of proceedings…

…There can be no doubt, that generally an advocate is 'authorized to act as his client's agent in all matters not falling within an exception which may reasonably be expected to arise for decision in the course of the proceedings…

…But a Notice of Appointment of Advocates is generally filed by advocates to enable them to conduct interlocutory proceedings on behalf of their client(s) prior to service of summons.…

…The record of proceedings so far, show that with respect to the interjection of the objection.…

…appellant was arrested on 5th April, 2003, he was not presented before the Court for plea until 14th October, 2003 and that indeed the information on record herein and dated 24th September, 2003 was intended for committal proceedings…

…But we are aware that by then the law had been amended in July, 2003 to remove the process of committal proceedings.…

…As I understand it, leave to appeal from an order in civil proceedings will normally be granted where prima facie it appears that there are grounds of appeal which merit serious judicial considerations but where, as in the…

…Justice Act 1948 a conviction of an offender followed by an order placing the offender on probation or discharging him absolutely or conditionally, had to be deemed to be no conviction, except for the purposes of those proceedings…

…book is that powers of the court to allow amendment is to determine the true, substantive merits of the case; amendments should be timeously applied for; power to so amend can be exercised by the court at any stage of the proceedings…

…There will be cases in which justice will be better served by allowing the consequences of the negligence of the lawyers to fall on their own heads rather than by allowing an amendment at a very late stage of proceedings.…