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…The Chamber Summons dated 24/08/2026 seeking certification and setting down for recess hearing of the Notice of Motion Application dated 24/08/2026 has not disclosed sufficiently compelling grounds for the hearing of the…

…The Chamber Summons Applicant has not shown how an expedited but normal track for the Notice of Motion Application would cause irreparable and irreversible negative consequences to the best interests of the children in question…

…It is common ground that the application has been brought by way of a Notice of Motion and not a Chamber Summons.…

…The issue then is whether the filing of an application by Notice of Motion rather than by Chamber Summons is fatal in the circumstances.…

…I have perused the two chamber summons, both dated 31st January, 2026. In the first chamber summons, the applicant seeks leave of this court to be heard during the recess.…

…The second chamber summons seeks leave of this court to apply for judicial review remedies arising from the decision of the Public Procurement Administrative Review Board rendered on 22nd December, 2025 in PPARB Case No.…

…The ex-parte applicants have approached this court through an ex-parte Chamber Summons application dated 30th January 2026 seeking various orders as follows: a.…

…There can be no valid ex parte chamber summons or substantive Motion without the statement.…

…Before me for determination is the Applicant’s Chamber Summons dated 13th March 2025 and filed in Court on 14th March 2025, pursuant to Order 11(2) of the Advocates and Remuneration Order, seeking for the following Orders…

…In this instance the order been appeal against was delivered on 28th February 2025, the Chamber Summons herein were filed on 14th March 2025.…

…They also argue that the rules demand that the appeal be filed by way of chamber summons which was not the case of the appeal. Mr. Anwar submitted that the appeal was therefore incompetent.…

…The issue of not filing a chamber summons will not occasion a miscarriage of justice. It was argued that the ruling by the taxing officer was delivered on 18/5/2023 and the appeal was filed on 24/5/2023 within 7 days.…

…The Chamber Summons dated 27/1/2025 is brought under certificate of urgency.…

…In this case, the applicant has filed Chamber Summons for leave to apply. No such leave is necessary.…

…I have considered the Chamber summons dated 3/12/2025 filed under certificate of urgency. I am satisfied that the matter is urgent. It is hereby certified as urgent. 2.…

…On whether I should grant leave to apply for substantive notice of motion, Iam satisfied, upon perusal of the chamber summons, the statutory statement and the verifying affidavit that the intended motion is arguable and not…

…All I can find in this matter are a verifying affidavit, a statutory statement, a certificate of urgency and a chamber summons dated 4 September 2023 which seeks, among other things, " that this Honourable court be pleased…

…to make appropriate directions on the applicant's application 'enjoined' to this chamber summons".…

…I have perused the chamber summons dated 22nd December 2025 brought under the High Court Recess Rules.…

…The chamber Summons under certificate of urgency, seeks leave of this Court to hear the applicants in the Chamber Summons and Originating Motion dated 22nd December, 2025 under certificate of urgency.…

….…..2 ND RESPONDENT RULING The chamber summons dated 3 rd November 2025 is filed under certificate of urgency.…

…However, upon perusal of the Affidavit supporting the chamber summons, I observed that the so-called ‘supporting affidavit’ is not signed by the applicant.…

…The ex parte chamber summons is not for canvassing inter partes, because it is supposed to be ex parte. It is for consideration by the Judge without hearing the parties.…

…A ruling was delivered on 17th March 2026, which did not determine the ex parte chamber summons, for the matter was only meant to come up for inter partes mention, not hearing.…

…The first is the applicants’ chamber summons dated 17th July 2025, by which the applicants seek to set aside the ruling of the Hon.…

…If it succeeds, that is the end of the matter and the chamber summons falls away; if it fails, the court proceeds to consider the chamber summons on its merits. I therefore take the objection first. 3.…

…Majani appeared for the Applicant in the said Chamber summons and confirmed to the court that indeed the Respondent to the said application had been duly served but had failed to put in a response to the same.…

…Summons application of 16th February 2024.…

…I have looked at the Ex parte Applicant's Chamber Summons application dated 31s July 2024 and filed on 1st August 2024 and the undated Supporting Affidavit of James Aggrey Mwamu and the enclosures therein and noted that the…

…said Chamber Summons application was not in compliance with the High Court Recess Rules.…

…' The application dated 9/9/2025 by way of Chamber Summons seeks leave of court to apply for mandamus to compel the CEO, Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), as the accounting officer of IEBC to settle…

…I allow the chamber summons dated 10/9/2025 and grant the applicant leave to apply as sought in prayer No. 1 of the chamber summons.…

…I directed, instead, that the filings, dated 11th June 2026, be served on the respondents, and that the ex parte chamber summons be argued orally, on 22nd June 2026. 2.…

…I shall, as I hereby do, accordingly, grant the leave sought, in terms of prayer 2 of the said ex parte chamber summons.…

…E1259 of 2022, filed a Chamber Summons application dated 16th June 2025 seeking, inter alia, that the ruling and any resultant certificate of taxation of the Auctioneer’s Bill of Costs dated 9th September 2022 be varied and…

…summons.” 7.…

…I have perused the chamber summons for leave dated 23rd December, 2025 and filed in court on 29th December, 2025. 2.…

…I grant leave to the applicant to institute judicial review proceedings as sought in prayers Nos 2,3,4,5 of the Chamber Summons dated 23rd December, 2025. 6.…