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…Incompetent Chamber summons. 8. The Claimant contended that the Chamber Summons was filed by an Advocate who was a stranger to the proceedings and therefore it is incompetent.…

…It follows that filing of the Chamber Summons before complying with Order 9 Rule 7 of the Civil Procedure Rules rendered the Summons fatally defective and incompetent. Notice of Objection. 12.…

…I therefore decline to certify the chamber summons application as urgent.…

…On whether I should grant leave to the ex parte applicant to apply for the judicial review orders of certiorari and prohibition as sought in prayers 2 (i)-(iii) the chamber summons dated 12/2/2025, I find that this is an…

…I have looked at the Ex parte Applicant's Chamber Summons application dated 18th April 2024 and filed on 22nd April 2024 and the Verifying Affidavit of Edwin Masavo that was sworn on 18th April 2024 in support thereof and…

…the enclosures therein and noted that the said Chamber Summons application that was seeking leave to apply for an order for mandamus against the Respondents herein ought to have been filed in a Miscellaenous file and not…

…The PO was raised against the Applicant’s Chamber Summons application dated 29th November 2023.…

…The submissions by the Respondents relate to the Chamber Summons and not the PO. Those of the Applicants are a mixture of the issues touching on the PO and the Application.…

…This ruling is in respect of two applications: the Plaintiff’s Notice of Motion dated 8th September 2023 and Chamber Summons dated 18th October 2023.…

…The Chamber Summons is supported by an affidavit sworn jointly by Abraham Gimode Agola and Daniel Simiyu Wakhungu.…

…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.…

…summons.…

…Subsequent to the above ruling and order, the Applicant filed the chamber summons dated 25th November, 2024 in which the following orders are sought: a. [Spent]. b.…

…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.…

…for a body with statutory authority to do so as opposed to the court, and the reliefs sought were not appropriate and the Chamber Summons was unmerited.…

…Analysis I have considered the Chamber Summons application, responses by the respondents and the applicant’s submissions.…

…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.…

…The Chamber Summons Application is opposed by the Advocate/Respondent who filed a Replying Affidavit dated 28th February 2025, and also a Preliminary Objection dated 9th May 2025; and contended that the Chamber Summons Reference…

…The Chamber Summons is also opposed vide the Replying Affidavit sworn by Julius K.…

…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…

…First, it was argued that the court is functus officio, having already dismissed the substantive Chamber Summons application on March 25, 2025.…

…The dismissal of the Chamber Summons, it was argued, effectively ended the court’s jurisdiction on the matter. 22.…

…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".…