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….…..RESPONDENT RULING When this appeal was called on for hearing, Mr Kwach, appearing on behalf of the two respondents, took the preliminary objection that the mandatory provisions of Rule 85 (1) (f) of rules of this court…

…Indeed, save for what appears in the ruling of the superior court annexed to their affidavit in support of this application, the overall effect of the preliminary objection taken by the applicants in that court to their case…

…It seems to me that it is the rejection of their preliminary objection in the superior court that is the subjectmatter of the applicants' intended appeal in respect of which this application is made.…

…Nagpal, for the Respondent to this application, has taken preliminary objection which, he says, goes to the jurisdiction of this court.…

…We accordingly dismiss the preliminary objection and proceed to determine the question raised by the Notice of Motion filed on 26th March, 1984. Dated at Nairobi this 17th day of April, 1984.…

…A preliminary objection to the entertainment of the appeal was upheld and the appeal was dismissed in limine.…

…So if the holdings in these cases still stand, the appellant can have no valid answer to the preliminary objection.…

…A preliminary objection to the entertainment of the appeal was upheld and the appeal was dismissed in limine.…

…So if the holdings in these cases still stand, the appellant can have no valid answer to the preliminary objection.…

…At the commencement of the trial on 12th August, 1992, counsel for the appellant raised a preliminary objection and asked for the suit to be struck out on the ground that it had been prematurely brought without the dispute…

…objection which the Judge overruled.…

…When the appeal came for hearing in the superior court, Mr Chunga raised a preliminary objection based on section 348 of the Criminal Procedure Code, that the appeal against conviction was incompetent and should be struck…

…The judges upheld the preliminary objection raised by Mr Chunga and struck out the appellant’s appeal against conviction, but as regards sentence, they reduced it to 3 years because they found that in the assessment of sentence…

…The High Court after hearing argument from both Counsel for the Defendant and for the plaintiff dismissed the preliminary objection. Hence the filing of this appeal.…

…The same complaint is levied against the Judge who heard and dismissed the preliminary objection. Why is it that the court is said to have gone wrong in allowing the exparte application?…

…At the hearing of the appeal, counsel for the respondent raised a preliminary objection to the jurisdiction of the High Court to entertain the appeal.…

…This Court in an unanimous decision, upheld the Preliminary Objection and struck out the appeal as incompetent.…

…Mwangangi for both the respondents took a preliminary objection to the applications on the basis that as the pages of the applications did not bear the tenth lines numbered on the margin on the right side of the sheets the…

…The issue was taken as a preliminary objection when the trial began on March 24, 1981, and it was upheld and Wamunyama was non-suited.…

…At the commencement of the hearing inter partes, Mr Alibhai for the defendants, raised a preliminary objection to the effect that as the appellant firm was under receivership, its directors could not bring an action against…

…Mr Lee Muthoga who acted for the respondent in the High Court, also appearing before us, has raised a preliminary objection to say that the appeal is incompetent for at least the following four reasons: 1.…

…objection being raised before the trial on behalf of the Respondent, the Defendant in the suit, he had ruled that leave to institute the proceedings which the Appellant had obtained ex parte, from a judge of the superior…

…court under the limitation Act, could not be challenged by way of a preliminary objection, but, as the learned judge put it, “at the trial …. on evidence and submissions.”.…

…On that day Mr Ngatia raised his preliminary objections and on 29th April 1994, Aluoch J delivered a ruling in which she dismissed all the objections.…

…objection”.…

…We are satisfied there is no statutory authorization for the appellant’s appeal to us and we accordingly uphold the preliminary objection raised by Mr. Chunga.…

…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.…

…The appellant herein led a notice of preliminary objection objecting the Election Petition on the ground that it was not signed by the petitioner who had given no reasons why he did not sign it or thumbprint it himself.…

…The respondent’s notice of preliminary objection implied that the petitioner could either sign or thumbprint the petition himself. 12. Mr.…

…Justice Simpson in his ruling dismissed this preliminary objection and reserved its costs. The issue was simple and clear cut. Was Mary married t the deceased in accordance with Kikuyu custom?…