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Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…This matter raises the question whether the court has jurisdiction to entertain it.…
…We were much pressed by Mr Adala for the respondent to invoke the jurisdiction under rule 1(3) of the rules of this court. We do not consider it necessary to encumber this ruling citation of numerous authorities.…
Division and case type: CivilMiscellaneous Application
…He must also demonstrate that this court has jurisdiction to entertain the proceedings. 3.…
…In the Tribunal, he can challenge its jurisdiction.…
Division and case type: CivilMiscellaneous Civil Application
…There is no allegation that the respondents’ suit was wrongly filed in the Magistrate’s Court; in other words, it is not alleged that the magistrate has no jurisdiction to try the respondents’ case.…
…counterclaim was “filed” in a Court without jurisdiction and accordingly this Court has no jurisdiction to transfer it.…
Division and case type: Constitutional and Human RightsConstitutional Petition
…162 (2) of the Constitution (by Act No. 19 of 2011) with exclusive jurisdiction over “the environment and use and occupation of, and title to, land”, the matter of jurisdictional boundaries of the High Court and the Environment…
…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…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…Otherwise it had jurisdiction to hear and determine the case under section 159 of the Act, as the section was at that time.…
…It says that the senior resident magistrate, Nyeri, had no jurisdiction to determine a boundary dispute.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…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.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…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.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…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.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…Analysis (a) The Question o f Jurisdiction 42. The 1st respondent submitted that this Court has no jurisdiction to entertain the Notice of Motion.…
…In each of those decisions, the Court has considered dierent angles of the jurisdictional question.…
Division and case type: Constitutional and Human RightsPetition
…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.…
Division and case type: Milimani Commercial CourtsCivil Suit
…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.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Case
…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.…
Division and case type: Constitutional and Human RightsPetition
…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.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Suit
…Sub-section (2) thereof gives a District Magistrate’s Court jurisdiction to settle disputes and make declarations for the purposes of proceedings instituted under subsection (1)(b) of the Section.…
…It is obvious that the suit violates the aforesaid provisions which expressly confer jurisdiction upon a District Magistrate’s Court to determine disputes such as the present.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…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.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…It was urged that the magistrate misdirected himself in holding that the elders had no jurisdiction, that the magistrate should have held that all cases of trespass had to be heard by elders, that because the sale agreement…
…The appellants relied on section (1) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, cap 10 which provides, “9A(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 5 and 9 or of any other written law conferring jurisdiction, but subject to the…
Division and case type: Constitutional and Human RightsJudicial Review
…The application was made on the grounds that: · The 1st respondent acted in excess of its jurisdiction in awarding the suit land to the interested party. · The decision of the 1st respondent was ultra vires the mandatory…
…provisions of section 6 of the Land Control Act. · The 1st respondent acted ultra vires its jurisdiction as set out under section 3 (1) of the Land Disputes Tribunal Act. · That the 1st respondent dealt with a matter that…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…Consequently, the court found it lacked jurisdiction to grant leave and dismissed the application..…
…made - whether the six-month limitation period prescribed under section 9(3) of the Law Reform Act for filing an application for leave to apply for an order of certiorari was mandatory and absolute - whether the court had jurisdiction…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Suit
…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.…
Division and case type: CivilMiscellaneous Application
…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…