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…Procedure Rules - whether provisions of the Civil Procedure Rules on enlargement of time could override or be applied to extend a statutory limitation period set under the Law Reform Act - Law Reform Act (cap. 26) section…

…Whether the court had jurisdiction to enlarge time for ling an application for leave to apply for certiorari beyond the statutory period under the Civil Procedure Rules. iii.…

…It is normally the duty of the High Court under section 79C of the Civil Procedure Act to hear the parties, allowing the appellant to exercise his constitutional right of appeal.…

…The problem then is one of construing the words of section 79B of the Civil Procedure Act and especially the words ‘No sufficient ground.’…

…CASE NO. 330 OF 1991) ************************** JUDGMENT OF COURT The award filed in the superior court on 7th December, 1992 was not signed by all the persons who made it as is required by rule 10 of Order XLV of the Civil…

…Procedure Rules.…

…court a discretion to set aside the judgment upon such terms as may be just, but in a case like this where the obtaining of the judgment was irregular and not in accordance with the law and practice as laid down in our Civil…

…Procedure Rules, the appellant is clearly entitled as of right to have the judgment set aside without any conditions being imposed.…

…The form of the application appears to follow order IXA rule 5 of the Civil Procedure Rules, whereby interlocutory judgment was prayed for, pending the matter being set down for the assessment of damages.…

…He protested that order 5 rule 12 of the Civil Procedure Rules made service conditional on the process server really ascertaining that the defendant could not be found, and secondly that the adult member of the defendant’…

…I could not find a certificate of costs in the file as provided by order XX rule 8() of the Civil Procedure Rules.…

…It also, in my opinion, accords with section 27(1) of the Civil Procedure Act and its proviso: which it is evident from the concluding part of his judgment the learned judge in this case had very much in mind.…

…Under the proviso to section 27(1) of the Civil Procedure Act, the court should, therefore award costs to the defendant. But I do not think I am prepared to do this.…

…The magistrate could if he deemed it proper invoke Order 1 r II of the Civil procedure Rules and authorize Javan Bulemi to conduct the suit. That is the correct step which should have been taken.…

…Section 7 of the Civil Procedure Act (cap 21) deals with res-judicata. It bars suits which have already been decided by competent courts to be reinsituted. PARA 2-0.…

…The appellants being the sons of Ayub Wasike who was involved in the same land dispute with Ainea Fita, who was the defendant in the fresh High Court suit, are all parties within the meaning of section 7 of the Civil Procedure…

…Under the provisions of Order XLV rule 17 (2) of the Civil Procedure Rules when the judgement has been entered in terms of the award there is no appeal from that judgment unless the judgment entered is in excess of or not…

…It filed with its plaint a summons in chambers under Order XXXIX rules 1-3 of the Civil Procedure Rules supported by an affidavit of Mr Macharia asking the High Court for an interlocutory injunction restraining the Bank and…

…Moreover, as Mr Wasuna said when he was addressing us on behalf of the respondent, the appellant’s advocates, having been loud in their complaints about the respondent’s pleading, should themselves have complied with the Civil…

…procedure Rules.…