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…Section 9(2) “where an application for consent in respect of a controlled transaction is made to a Land Control Board, and the Board does not determine the application within a period of three months after the application…

…is made, the application shall be deemed to have been refused at the expiry of that period.” 9.…

…Consequently, the court found it lacked jurisdiction to grant leave and dismissed the application..…

…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 to enlarge time for filing an application for leave to apply for certiorari…

…NAIROBI/BLOCK 263/1163, in Nairobi pending the hearing and determination of the Application and Petition. f. The costs of this Application be provided for. 2.…

…Whether the Petitioner/Applicant is entitled to the orders sought in the application. b. Who shall bear the costs of the application? Analysis and Determination A.…

…The Respondent followed up the payment with an application before court.…

…The Applicant made various applications before this court (Chemitei, J).…

…When the summons came upon for interpartes hearing the parties’ advocates agreed by consent not to argue the application but left it to this court to make a decision on the basis of the application and affidavits for or against…

…The plaintiff opposed this application stating that judgment was entered by consent on 6th March, 2003 and the defendant has not paid a single penny as a sign of good faith towards reducing the debt.…

…However, rule 4 of Order 39 of the Civil Procedure Rules is wide andenough and covers the present application. It is as follows:- "4.…

…Any order for an injunction may bedischarged, or varied, or set aside by thecourt on application made thereto by anyparty dissatisfied with such order."…

…The succeeding advocate then filed an application asking the court to set aside the default judgment so that the defendant could file its defence. Held: 1.…

…The application concerned the exercise of judicial discretion under order IXA rule 10 and 11 of the Civil Procedure Rules even though these provisions were not shown in the chamber summons application. 2.…

…The 1st Defendant vigorously opposes the application. He denies that there subsists a valid Taita Customary Law marriage between himself and the Plaintiff.…

…, it becomes self-evident that as I am not satisfied that the Applicant has any legal right she may have is at risk of serious prejudice, the application for the interlocutory relief cries out for dismissal.…

…Thereafter the appellant filed two applications to the trial court (1) seeking leave to amend his plaint and (2) seeking a review of the judgment whereby his claim had been dismissed.…

…Both these applications were heard on December 24, 1985 and the rulings thereon were reserved till January 21, 1986 when both applications were dismissed.…

…It is with these principles in mind that I have to consider an application brought under certificate of urgency by the defendant in this case.…

…It is now the plaintiff’s case that circumstances surrounding the case between December 1996 when he brought his first application and 19.5.95 when he filed the present application have changed so drastically that if the…

….…………..RESPONDENTS RULING This application is brought by Chamber Summons under Order IXB rule 8 and O XXI rule 22 Civil Procedure Rules. The applicants are the defendants in the suit.…

…Thirdly, that provision be made for the costs of the application. The applicants essentially beg this court to exercise its judicial discretion in their favour.…

…The plaintiff contends that this term should have been abided by had the plaintiff only signed the loan application form from the plaintiff’s financier - the Premier Savings & Finance Limited of Mombasa, which, he asserts…

…I would be constrained to grant the injunction sought by this application.…

…Civil Application No. 10 of 2022, Onyango Otunga & Company Advocates v George Ogolla. 2.…

…In the case before the lower court, the Advocate led an application for taxation of the Advocate/Client Bill of Costs.…

…The matter was before the Judge on July 9th, 1985 and the upshot was that the Judge granted the defendants’ application with costs.…

…Counsel urged that the Judge was invited to substitute the correct name and submitted that the Judge erred in refusing to do so without an application.…

…This application by way of notice of motion is brought to the Court Under Order XXXV Rules 1 and 2 of the Civil Procedure rules.…

…Gikandi for the Plaintiffs abandoned the application as regards the 2nd Defendant, B.R. Patel.…

…Mr Obhrai who appeared on behalf of the Council in this application argued several points in support thereof.…

…When all is said and done in this case I still fail to find, either in the affidavits filed in support of the application or in the submissions of Mr Obhrai, any feature which brings the application within the ambit of order…

…Even though the defendants were served and an Affidavit of service duly filed, they neither filed any responses nor attended court to oppose the application.…

…The consequence is that the application was thus deemed unopposed and was ordered to be heard in the absence of the Defendants/respondents. 4.…

…No application to extend the time had been made and the appellants pressed for specific performance before the trial court.…

…No such application was made. That agreement therefore is of no effect and no question of specific performance can lawfully arise.…

…If the judge felt that there was no cause of action, he should have allowed the application for adjournment and thus enable the defendant to apply for the ex-parte judgment to be set aside.…

…From the moment he refused to allow an adjournment so that an application to set aside the ex-parte dismissal of the defendant’s application to set aside the interlocutory judgment could be made, the judge had before him…