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…of the Court and since the jurisdiction of this Court is founded on statute, it cannot be properly invoked unless the intending appellant strictly complies with its provisions.…

…Counsel said the objection merely raised a procedural point which this Court, in its inherent jurisdiction, can waive.…

…of the Court and since the jurisdiction of this Court is founded on statute, it cannot be properly invoked unless the intending appellant strictly complies with its provisions.…

…Counsel said the objection merely raised a procedural point which this Court, in its inherent jurisdiction, can waive.…

…That the constitution does not oust the inherent jurisdiction of this court to determine issues when they arise.…

…statutes that tend to fetter the court’s jurisdiction.…

…The courts jurisdiction has not been properly invoked as order 5 [1] Rule 7 of the Civil Procedure Rules is applicable only where summons expire before they are served upon the defendant. 2.…

…This honorable court lacks jurisdiction to issue the orders as sought. 3. The application is vexatious and a blatant abuse of the due process of the honourable court and ought to be struck out.…

…So the present appeal to us is on sentence on which we would normally have no jurisdiction if the sentence on which we would normally have no jurisdiction if the sentence is lawful.…

…To this extent that sentence was unlawful and this gives us jurisdiction to deal with the matter. We therefore set aside the strokes imposed for housebreaking in Criminal Case NO 989/88.…

…That the constitution does not oust the inherent jurisdiction of this court to determine issues when they arise.…

…statutes that tend to fetter the court’s jurisdiction.…

…There is no appeal from that finding and it is difficult for a court exercising revisionary jurisdiction to fault the lower court on a finding of a fact.…

…I think my proper jurisdiction in an issue of this kind is the one given by section 149(4) of Criminal Procedure Code – to remit or reduce a fine imposed by the lower court.…

…The advocate for the applicant/plaintiffs argued that indeed the courts had inherent jurisdiction at the level of the High Court.…

…It is to this jurisdiction that the defendants stated that this court has no powers to entertain. The plaintiff, they claim have come first to the wrong court.…

…Neither in the pleadings nor in the trial was the jurisdiction of the Kenyan courts to entertain the suit contested.…

…And a litigant who submits to the jurisdiction of the Kenyan courts must, ipso facto, submit to the statutory restrictions on the exercise of that jurisdiction.…

…The defendant, through Ms BEN OCHIENG & CO ADVOCATES, filed a defence in which he pleaded that this court has no jurisdiction to hear and determine this suit or to grant the reliefs sought by the plaintiff pursuant to the…

…Kithi has submitted that the High Court, pursuant to the provisions of Section 60 of the Constitution, has unlimited civil jurisdiction and therefore that the suit is not incompetent.…

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

…1982, where the issue of damages could not in any event, have been determined on an Originating Summons, and James Njoro Kibutiri v Eliud Njau Kibutiri, Civil Appeal 30 of 1982 where LAW JA said that the High court had no jurisdiction…

…Mr Justice Porter struck out the summons on May 3, 1984 because it had not been filed in any suit and therefore he held he had no jurisdiction.…

…There was want of jurisdiction and I am satisfied that my order was right. I would refuse to review it even if I were satisfied that, this was a proper application for review.…

…The second one is that this Court lacks jurisdiction to entertain the application. Mr.…

…The result was that the application is presently grounded on the inherent jurisdiction of the Court. Two issues are raised by the application. Firstly whether this Court possesses the jurisdiction to entertain it.…

…S 30, under which the Appellant is charged relates to the jurisdiction of the Tribunal and does not create an offence. Probably the intention was to charge under S 29.…

…Whilst Opidi comes from a neighbouring jurisdiction, the argument in it is very powerful, and I find difficulty in departing from it. The result therefore is that the error in the charge in this case is incurable.…

…This is so because the jurisdiction of this court is limited to the original and appellate jurisdictions of the superior court.…

…To bring in the intended defendant would be to extend that jurisdiction contrary to rule 73 of the Rules of this court.…

…Jurisdiction of our courts is conferred by statutes and the High Court, for instance, does not have the jurisdiction to sit on appeal against decisions of the same court.…

…There is no jurisdiction donated under the Limitation of Actions Act to interfere with leave given under section 28 of the Act.…

…In opposition of the said application the defendant’s advocate has taken a preliminary point that the court has no jurisdiction to try this suit as it is instituted prematurely and in contravention of the Architects and Quanitity…

…The defendant’s advocate in the course of his submission did not argue that the court had no jurisdiction although it is there in his written statement of opposition to the substantive application.…

…In this application which is expressed to be brought under rule 80 of the rules of this court and section 5(d) of the Court of Appeal Rules (but we think the Appellate Jurisdiction Act was intended) he asks this court to…

…It is important to state at the outset that section 5 (d) of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act, while donating the power to make rules providing for the summary determination of any appeal which appears to the court to be frivolous…

…Affidavit or otherwise that the defendant with intent to obstruct or delay the execution of any decree that may be passed against him is about to remove the whole or any part of his property from the local limits of the jurisdiction…

…That is because there is now sufficient proof that after the filing of the first application which sought the attachment of 5 trucks and their trailers, two of those trailers and trucks were spirited away from the jurisdiction…