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…Accordingly, we allow this appeal, set aside the award and order that the matter be remitted to the superior court for hearing and disposal by that court. The costs of this appeal are awarded to the appellant.…

…Can it embrace not only the clearest cases, but cases when there may be some argument, though the judge feels that they are not sufficient to go for hearing?…

…While the learned judge decided that there were no sufficient grounds to allow the appeal to go to hearing, in our opinion it cannot be said that this is one of the clearest cases.…

…I refuse this application and order it dismissed and if Mr Aluoch for the applicant is so inclined, he and the prosecution can have the case mentioned before the trial magistrate with a view to getting earlier hearing dates…

…During the hearing of appeal, the applicant was represented. He must have been notified of the result of his appeal either by his advocate or his wife.…

…At the hearing of the appeals, both of them were, with consent of the appellants, consolidated and heard together as one.…

…The proceedings show that Inspector Chebii continued to prosecute the case upto the date when the hearing was concluded.…

…The appellant at first filed a defence denying liability to the respondent but when the case came up for hearing before the High Court (Aganyanya, J) on the 20th February, 1989, a consent order was entered and the terms of…

…Disturbed hearing in the right ear with reduction of visual acuity in the right eye. 3. Compression fracture of the Lumbar IV vertebral body with residual backaches and paraesthesia of the left thigh.…

….…………….RESPONDENT JUDGMENT Two appeals have been consolidated for the purpose of hearing. These are Criminal Appeal No 33 of 1990 filed by Sammy Macharia and Criminal Appeal No 34 of 1990 filed by Kamau Muchiri.…

…At the hearing of the appeals, the learned counsel, Mr Olago-Aluoch has submitted that although the appellants purported to plead guilty, the charge was defective in that it did not disclose the enabling provisions of the…

…Pursuant to Section 200(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code, I took over the hearing following the transfer of the trial judge to Nairobi.…

…For the purpose of hearing these three appeals, they were consolidated.…

…During the hearing of the case before the learned principal magistrate a receipt number 122791 was tendered in the evidence showing that on 12th August 1988 a sum of shs 200/= was collected on the original while a different…

…The hearing went on and this time round, the applicant won. It is this latter decision that the respondent, Sule, asked Tanui, J. to bring before his court by way of certiorari and have the same quashed.…

…The Judge adjourned the hearing to the 27th July, 2007 to enable him write a summing-up to the two remaining assessors.…

…During the hearing of this appeal, Counsel for the appellant argued ground number 2 and number 4 and raised the following issues.…

…Where a succeeding magistrate commences the hearing of proceedings and part of the evidence has been recorded by his predecessor, the accused person may demand that any witness be resummoned and reheard and the succeeding…

…This conviction was wrong.Accordingly, we allow this appeal, quash the conviction and set aside the sentence of 18 months imprisonment although when this appeal came up for hearing on 22nd September, 1992 the appellant had…

…Eventually the case came up for hearing when the plaintiff testified and called two witnesses . The defendants on their part did not offer any evidence but their advocates filed written submissions.…

…The application came for hearing before Khamoni, J on the 10th April, 1990, and in a reserved ruling delivered on the 17th April, 1990, the learned judge dismissed the application with costs.…

…This conviction was wrong.Accordingly, we allow this appeal, quash the conviction and set aside the sentence of 18 months imprisonment although when this appeal came up for hearing on 22nd September, 1992 the appellant had…

…But when the hearing of this case started on 7th March 1991, the point was not taken up by the learned state counsel on preliminary argument or throughout the trial.…

…In the case of Nsubuga –vsAttorney General [1974] EA where the plaintiff was detained for 21 days unlawfully and was beaten and injured by the police and as a result he lost part of the hearing of one ear and had been kept…

…At the hearing of the appellant’s application, his case was that in 1973 he purchased the suit land from the respondent.…

…Indeed, at the hearing of this appeal he contended that the trial judge did not consider the duration he (appellant) had been in occupation of the suit land nor did he consider his having purchased this land.…