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…The appellant's insurers acting through their advocates, setlled the claim of the respondent who was the injured party. The respondent was represented by the firm of M/S. Mutula Kilonzo & Company Advocates.…

…The Advocates Act (Cap. 16 Laws of Kenya) provides very clear safeguards for clients whose moneys may be misappropriated by advocates. The advocates have to comply with The Advocates(Accounts) Rules.…

…It gives me opportunity to issue a warning to Advocates and litigants.…

…The application was heard, stay was granted and Advocate Khaminwa given 28 days to file the appeal. This was because the Court of Appeal appreciated the urgency of the matter.…

…Each client has a separate retainer relationship with the common advocate.…

…This principle applies equally where an advocate acts for two or more clients in the same transaction or subject matter because the retainer is specic between the individual client and the common advocate.…

…As to the payment of the preliminary deposit, the respondents paid to the common advocate Kshs 70,000/- being 10% of the purchase price and the common advocate paid to the appellant a sum of Kshs 10,000/- at the request of…

…There was no evidence from the common advocate to show that the Sale Agreement was complied with up to the completion date.…

…The only issue that was settled for decision by the advocates was who the real owner of plot number 133B Ongata Rongai was.…

…The matter in issue would then seem to be, as advocate for the appellants set out as the rst in the draft issues prepared by him: “Who is the owner of Plot No 133B Ongata Rongai?”…

…Application No. 796 of 1997) ****************************** R U L I N G The applicant, Moses Kipngetich Kurgat is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya.…

…The ruling he alludes to had the effect of, if not stayed confirmning his suspension from the roll of advocates as decided by the Disciplinary Committee of the Law Society of Kenya on the 22nd day of August, 1997.…

…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.…

…Anupchand and vijay sent for the police about 5 times in as many years, complained to the Mombasa Chamber of commerce, and to the Registrar of Business Names and prodded Mr parker, their advocate, into sending ‘Kaykay’ a…

…Each was denied access to his family and to his advocate until they were brought before the court which was 3 days later. Relatives brought food for them and were made to each some before Anupchand and Vijay did.…

…The address for service for the appellants is care of Mohamed & Muigai Advocates, Hazina Towers, P O Box 61323, Nairobi.…

…Mr S B M Kariuki, the appellant herein, has in the recent past been the advocate on record for the Hon K S N Matiba.…

…It is obvious to me that to counternance Mr Kariuki’s type of claim would open judges to endless harassment by all manner of malcontents, whether advocates or parties, who might feel that they have unfairly lost their battles…

…Chan Wai Tong v Li Ping Sum [1985] 2 WLR 396 Advocates Satish Gautama and K M Pandya for the appellant I T Inamdar for the respondent September 10, 1985, Kneller JA delivered the following Judgment.…

…much physical distress after the operations and the appellant’s advocate harped on the throbbing pain which the appellant has to endure about thrice a week.…

…It can be understood if one cannot produce a receipt for a “matatu” journey but when fees are paid to an advocate there ought to be a receipt.…

…The respondents’ costs in the superior court will be on the scale applicable in the Resident Magistrate’s court, as provided for in Schedule VII of the Advocates (Renumeration) Order.…

…Akhaabi, advocate for the applicants, that he applied for certified copies of the proceedings and judgment on October 22, 1991 he stated from Bar that he had in fact applied for them on July 3, 1990.…

…On 17th January 1985 he signed the agreement in the presence of Mr Gibson Kuria, advocate, who acted for both the parties. The second respondent was not present at the time and he had not signed the said agreement.…

…When this was realized at the hearing of the case and was made a ground of a submission by the appellant’s advocate, the first respondent, in consequence, and to meet the said objection, applied for leave to add the second…

…Civil Procedure Act (cap 21) sections 3A, 75(1) Advocates Mr Juma for the Applicant Mr C B Gor for the Respondent August 29, 1991, the following Judgement of the Court was delivered.…

…The application for leave to appeal against Shields J’s decision was opposed by Mr C B Gor, the advocate for the respondent and original plaintiff.…

…He went to an advocate, Mr Kassim, who filed a plaint on his behalf in the High Court in Mombasa on September 7, 1982 claiming damages, special and general, from the appellant for his “severe injuries and suffering and loss…

…This was taken as a preliminary objection by the appellant’s advocate, Mr Aboo, on September 22, 1983 before the High Court in Mombasa (Mr Justice Bhandari) to which Mr Kassim duly replied.…

…When he consulted his advocate in July 1991, he was informed that he could not sue because the claim was time-barred.…

…On 26th April, 1994, the advocate for the first, third and fifth appellants filed a notice of preliminary objection and an affidavit sworn by the second appellant, in opposition to the Mayor’s application.…