Judgment[1989] KECA 48
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Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…Reported by Kakai Toili Jurisdiction – jurisdiction of the High Court - admiralty jurisdiction of the High Court – what were the circumstances in which the admiralty jurisdiction of the High Court could be invoked - Judicature…
…The High Court did not have admiralty jurisdiction and the respondent was not entitled to invoke that jurisdiction. Per Kwach, JA 16.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…By Section 3 (1) of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act which confers jurisdiction on this Court: “The Court of Appeal shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine appeals from the courts of Kenya in cases in which an appeal…
…Jurisdiction is not the same thing as procedure. Procedural rules do not bestow jurisdiction”.…
Division and case type: CriminalMiscellaneous Criminal Application
…The jurisdiction of the Court to entertain an application pursuant to section 84(1) is specific.…
…The applicant is obliged to bring his application within the ambit of that section before the Court can have jurisdiction to entertain and determine it.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…In some Commonwealth jurisdictions, such right is vested in the chief Justice or some other statutorily designated body or entity.…
…Even courts whose jurisdiction is inferior to this Court and who are ordinarily bound under our doctrine of stare decisis, have consistently defied rather than followed it.…