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Division and case type: Constitutional and Human RightsConstitutional Petition
…Article 165 (3) (b) and 5 (b) of the the Constitution demarcates the High Court's jurisdiction on enforcement of the Bill of Rights and excludes the jurisdiction inrespect of matters falling within the jurisdiction of the…
…The object of the examination is to discover the true subject matter of the court proceedings to identify it either as a land matter or a constitutional matter for the enforcement of the Bill of Rights.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…The plaintiff maintains that in neither case should the exclusive jurisdiction clause be enforced it being not binding upon the courts in Kenya which should assume jurisdiction over the two suits rather than the court in…
…Jurisdiction clause however should normally be respected because the parties themselves freely fixed the forums for the settlement of their disputes; the court should carry out the intention of the parties and enforce the…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…The averred that the prayers in the plaint were incapable of enforcement; that it was in any case incompetent because there was a pending previously instituted suit, to wit Nairobi High Court Civil Case No. 2598 of 1986,…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appli
…KARUGA & ANOTHER 1982-88 IKAR 1018-,there Hancox J.A. said:- "I accept the proposition that if it isshown that execution or enforcement wouldrender a proposed appeal nugatory then astay can properly be given.…