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…The appellant’s Memorandum of Appeal to this Court was filed in its Nakuru sub-registry on January 23rd 1984, (almost another two months lost there) and we are now hearing this appeal 6 months later.…

…This is a strong indication that the judge is to decide the application on hearing one side only. No provision is made for the defendant being heard; and I do not think that we should allow it to be done at this stage.…

…under sections 27, 28 and 30 of the Limitation of Actions Act and if this is in affirmative whether the tortfeasor should be served with the Notice of Appeal, the Record of the proceedings, the judgement / ruling and the Hearing…

…When the appeal came for hearing before us, Mr Chunga the Deputy Public Prosecutor, raised a preliminary objection under section 348 of the Criminal Procedure Code to the effect that the intended appeal by the appellant against…

…As to that aspect of the appeal we shalt revert later after hearing both counsel on the matter.…

…application for amendment under rule 44 should be heard first by a single judge, as provided by rule 52 of the rules, without prejudice to the full bench’s right to give leave to amend on an informal application during the hearing…

…In the course of the hearing, the second defendant was permitted to amend his defence against the first defendant, by adding a counter-claim, and a fresh agreed statement of facts was put before the court, with a few facts…

…judge in assessing general damages failed to appreciate or to consider the fact that although the loss of one eye by itself would not be regarded as so serious an injury as the loss of one hand or one leg or the loss of hearing…

…By an application dated 11th October 2012, Kituo moved the Court seeking further orders of court for the UNHCR to be released from its undertaking to the Court to accommodate the petitioner pending hearing and determination…

…at a prison facility, the respondent contended that the section 43(2)(b) of the KCIA provides an alternative to a holding facility and further that there was no evidence tendered to show that she was not accorded a fair hearing…

…I have no doubt the appellant was taken by surprise by the introduction of the unpleaded cause of action at the hearing, but although his advocate protested he did in fact, to some extent, participate in the consideration…

…Had issues been framed at the hearing, the necessity for amendment of the pleadings would immediately have become apparent, and much trouble and expense avoided.…

…The application was mainly argued on the point of law as no defence had been filed and even if it was placed on the file at the time of the hearing it was never relied upon by the trial judge in her ruling.…

…Upon the inter partes hearing of the application the learned judge of the High Court in her ruling concluded that the suit against the respondent: “...discloses no reasonable cause of action, and is clearly frivolous and…

…At the hearing of the appeal a more careful case was presented.…

…The hearing before this Court, is the appeal by the appellant against the judgment of the learned judge of the High Court. His twelve grounds of appeal can be distilled into two main grounds.…