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Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…Sec 3A of the Act which replaces section 97, concerns the inherent jurisdiction. The originating summons can only be used as the omnibus carrying all inherent matters within it, if provision is so made.…
…Where a question of jurisdiction is concerned, this court must take it up, whether or not the point was raised below.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…He concluded by submitting that the offence of desertion amounted to a labour dispute and as such the jurisdiction to hear the matter lay with the Employment and Labour Relations Court.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…cited various Indian cases in support of his proposition that where in a rule the procedure to be adopted for a remedy is excluded, except in relation to the procedure laid down in the rule; in other words, the Court has no jurisdiction…
Division and case type: FamilySuccession Cause
…The court stated as follows: “We cannot but emphasize the importance of precise claims in due process, substantive justice, and the exercise of jurisdiction by a court.…
…In essence, due process, substantive justice and the exercise of jurisdiction are a function of precise legal and factual claims. However, we also note that precision is not coterminous with exactitude.…
Division and case type: Constitutional and Human RightsElection Petition
…voting process therein. e) There is no other Petition pending, and there have been no previous proceedings, in any court between the Petitioner and the Respondents over the same subject matter. f) This Honourable Court has jurisdiction…
…No. 9 of 2013 Charles Oigara Mogere vs Christopher Obure , Sitati J found that it is not open to a party to apply for a dual order of scrutiny and recount under the same breath as this would be beyond the jurisdiction of…
Division and case type: Constitutional and Human RightsElection Petition
…voting process therein. e) There is no other Petition pending, and there have been no previous proceedings, in any court between the Petitioner and the Respondents over the same subject matter. f) This Honourable Court has jurisdiction…
…No. 9 of 2013 Charles Oigara Mogere vs Christopher Obure , Sitati J found that it is not open to a party to apply for a dual order of scrutiny and recount under the same breath as this would be beyond the jurisdiction of…