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Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…originating summons by the High Court, in the High Court Civil Case No 2411 of 1979 (OS), at Nairobi, the instant originating summons, which was also started at Nairobi but in due course was transferred here, is barred by the application…
…The present respondents in the instant application are two only, namely Willys Gantinku Mukobwa and Robert Njogu.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…There was a further affidavit which he swore and filed on the morning of 24th May, 1989, the date this application came for hearing.…
…Two grounds were put forward in opposition of the application. The first ground was that the application is misconveived. The second one is that this Court lacks jurisdiction to entertain the application. Mr.…
Division and case type: FamilySuccession Cause
…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.…
Division and case type: Employment and Labour RelationsCase number Cause
…The application was based on the supporting affidavit of Esther J. Keror filed on 11.11.2013 and the grounds set out in the application as follows: 1.…
…The application is tailored at buying time for the applicant and thus is an abuse of court process. 2.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…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.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…That costs of this application be provided for.…
…The learned magistrate therefore rightly made an order for stay of execution pending the hearing of the application to set aside the ex-parte judgment. That application was to be heard on the 24th of May, 1991.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…The application was supported by an affidavit sworn by the applicant.…
…Sigei opposed the application.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…That this application be heard inter-partes on 29.8.95. 4. That the costs of this application do abide the outcome of the application.…
…The application is opposed by the defendants who have filed their own application to strike out the Applicant’s application. They gave notice of legal objections.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Suit
…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.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…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."…
Division and case type: Environment and LandLand Case
…That Costs of this application be provided for. Mr. Riungu for the applicant stated that the plaintiff Abednego Golden Njeru was deceased.…
…He therefore prayed for Orders as per prayers 1, 2 and 3 of the application. Mr.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…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.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Suit
…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.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…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…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
….…………..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.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…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.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…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.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…On the defendant’s application the court ordered the plaintiff on June 7, 1982 to supply the particulars asked for in the prescribed form No 15, Appendix B of the Civil Procedure Rules, within seventy days.…
…The court made the order asked for and the plaintiff’s suit was dismissed even though the particulars had been supplied before the hearing date of the defendant’s application, and notwithstanding also the plaintiff’s offer…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…When the appellant did appear on 24th September 1993 the prosecutor made an oral application that he should be convicted for contempt of court because he had failed to pay school fees for his children.…
…The oral application made by the children’s officer, without any affidavit in support denied the appellant an opportunity of challenging the whole proceedings. The procedure adopted was wrong.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…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.…