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…plaintiff testified that after the vehicle was stolen he was unable to pay the hire purchase charges to the hire-purchase company which eventually successfully sued him for the balance of the hire purchase amount and accrued interest…

…mind, the claim is reasonable and having not been challenged in crossexamination I allow the figure, with the result that I give judgment to the plaintiff against the defendant in the sum of Kshs.872,360/= with costs and interest…

…The amount awarded if invested will earn interest that would compensate for the inflation.…

…The only other matter is the question of interest. Though the award of interest is at the discretion of the Court, Mr.. Geogiadis conceded to this ground straight away which saved Mr.. Inamdar submitting on it.…

…plaintiff is seeking judgmentagainst the defendant for Shs. 316. 581/ 75 together with interestthereon at 19 % p.a. from 1st March, 1990 till full repayment.The plaintiff is also asking for costs of the suit togetherwith interest…

…The defendant is asking for interest on thissum together with costs of the counter-claim. Looking at the evidence on record we find that the areaof dispute is rather narrow.…

…Section 74 of the registered land Act provides: "74 (1) If default is made in payment of the Principal sum or of any interest or any other periodical payment or of any part thereof, or in the performance or observance of…

…So, default had been made in payment of both the principal sum and of interest. Obviously there was default in the payment of periodical payments. The appellant had not observed the agreement.…

…We bear in mind that this sum will carry interest at court rates from 10th July, 1996. In her plaint the respondent had claimed damages for loss of earnings and loss of earning capacity.…

…The award of special damages will carry interest at court rate from 25th January, 1993 until date of payment and that of general damages will carry interest at court rates from 10th July, 1996 until date of payment in full…

…We allow this appeal and set aside the conviction and sentence and in the interest of justice we order an expeditious retrial before any other judge of the High Court. These are our orders.…

…Interest has been accumulating over the debt owed by J.D both tothe bank and to the Decree Holder.…

…Interest has been accumulating over the debt owed by J.D both tothe bank and to the Decree Holder.…

…The statement is not required to contain the evidence which has come to the knowledge of the Governor and which it may be against the public interest to disclose.…

…To give particulars would not be in the public interest he said. They might disclose the manner in which the information was obtained and perhaps endanger the person who obtained the details.…

…keeping awards for the loss of all amenities at a sensible level, bearing in mind the local figures for inflation, and testing each award by relating it to the appellant’s gross annual earnings and or by what the annual interest…

…rare incident of this type of injury, I would respectfully agree with Kneller, JA whose judgment I have had the advantage of reading in draft, that a sum of Kshs 475,000 paid in a lump sum, and sensibly invested to earn interest…

…This appeal is of undoubted considerable interest because it involves a suit which was brought by the appellant who is a member of the legal profession and as is common knowledge, one time Chairman of the Law Society of Kenya…

…Apart from this uniqueness of the suit, it also raises important issues of public interest and the independence of the Judiciary.…

…The legislation in Kenya and England have the same purpose, and it is therefore of interest to observe how the courts have dealt with the problem, as well as the opinions of the commentators in Halsbury’s Laws of England.…

…The conspiracy indeed may merge with the offence 2.To this general rule there are exceptions, as for instance:- a)Where it is in the interest of justice to present an overall picture, which a series of relatively small substantive…

…satisfactory trial” see also Braganza v R [1957] E A 152 Pyrall M Bassan v R, [1960] EA 854 and George Karanja Mwangi & others v R Criminal Appeal No 132 of 1983 (unreported) A re-trial may also be ordered if it is in the interest…

…No disagreement arose until 1969, by which time the personal respondent’s son had acquired an interest which gave him and his father a controlling interest in the company.…

…company; (ii) and agreement, or understanding that all, or some (for there maybe “sleeping” members), of the shareholders shall participate in the conduct of the business; (iii) restriction upon the transfer of the members’ interest…

…of Criminal Appeal No. 363 of 2006 was discriminatory, unconstitutional, and a breach of his fundamental rights; that the High Court sitting as a constitutional court should award him appropriate relief; and that in the interest…

…Of particular interest is the Orpen’s case where the facts and the wording of the section – “4(1) The petition shall be signed by the petitioner or all of the petitioners, if more than one,” are on all fours with the facts…