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…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.…

…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.…

…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…

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

…Where a court had no jurisdiction, there would be no basis for a continuation of proceedings pending other evidence.…

…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…

…I, p. 124 was approved: "Prima facie , any order made in the presence and with consent of counsel is binding on all parties to the proceedings or action, and on those claiming under them... and cannot be varied or discharged…

…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.…

…We were informed that the superior court has granted an order for stay of execution or further proceedings pending the hearing and determination of this appeal on condition that two cement manufacturing companies earlier…

…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.…

…Not only are the sittings of Parliament at an end, but all proceedings pending at the time are quashed… Every Bill must therefore be renewed after a prorogation as if it were introduced for the first time.”…

…Such a provision would have been unnecessary if subsidiary legislation laid before the house were regarded as proceedings pending at the time of prorogation which are quashed by prorogation.…

…Adipo for the respondent, contended that the record of the proceedings before the superior court contained adequate evidence to show that the rst appellant had been divorced by the deceased.…

…I agree entirely with Miss Abida Ali’s submission that the order in faovur of Yusuf Kipkorir Kaittany had no legal basis as he was not a party to the proceedings.…

…Consequently he acceded to the application to strike out the petition with costs, and ordered that it be expunged from the register of winding up proceedings.…

…court to stay an action in limine as an abuse of process is a jurisdiction to be exercised with great circumspection, and exactly the same consideration must apply to a‘quia timet injunction to restrain commencement of proceedings…

…When the appellant failed to pay this sum, the respondent instructed its advocates to institute proceedings against the appellant for this sum of 190, 956/70 which together with interest, had by the end of September, 1985…