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Division and case type: CivilCase number Civil Application
…The result therefore is that Patel J gave an interim judgment for the plaintiff on liability and Mr Commissioner Sampson completed the proceedings on March 24, 1987 with his assessment of damages.…
…If successful, the assessment of damages would fall away, and the suit would be heard fully, and damages assessed as part of the proceedings, on the basis of such liability found, if any.…
Division and case type: GeneralUnclassified
…She also claimed that no hearing is allowed in revision proceedings. With due respect we do not think Miss Nyaanga’s submissions are quite correct.…
…The procedure followed in commencing these proceedings, is in our view, proper.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Suit
…group, the Registrar may in writing require the officers of the group to produce to him evidence of either – (a) the settlement of the dispute and the proper appointment of officers of the group; or (b) the institution of proceedings…
…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.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…He states that there has been previous proceedings and that the subject matter of the suit does not exist as plaintiff has sub-divided the land sold some parts and retained others.…
…There has been previous proceedings. In Meru High Court Civil Appeal No. 22/88.…
Division and case type: Constitutional and Human RightsConstitutional Petition
…The object of the examination is to discover the true subject matter of the court proceedings to identify it either as a land matter or a constitutional matter for the enforcement of the Bill of Rights.…
…that the proceedings should for any reason be continued as if the case had been begun by filing a Plaint, it may order the proceedings to continue as if the cause had been so begun and may, in particular, order that any…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…Rule 10(1) of order XXXVI of the Rules is in the following terms: “10 (1) Where, on an Originating Summons under this order, it appears to the Court at any stage of the proceedings that the proceedings should for any reason…
…be continued as if the cause had been begun by filing a plaint, it may order the proceedings to continue as if the cause had been so begun and may, in particular, order that any affidavits filed shall stand as pleadings,…
Division and case type: CivilCase number Civil Application
…On July 9, copies of proceedings and ruling were bespoken. Unfortunately, Mr Gikandi failed to copy this request to the respondent.…
…But the proceedings were received on August 28, 1987 and sent back for correction. They were finally received on September 7, 1987. The full 60 days had been sent on July 7, 1987.…
Division and case type: Milimani Commercial CourtsCivil Case
…The first one is that the police officer as agent for the defendant must have instituted the criminal proceedings against the plaintiff. Mr Ojiambo says that a police officer does not or can not act as agent.…
…That the proceedings terminated in the plaintiff’s favour is acknowledged by the defendants. The plaintiff having established liability in the defendants, I turn to the question of damages.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…Section 9(3) of the Law Reform Act reads: “(3) In the case of an application for an order of certiorari to remove any judgment order decree conviction or other proceedings for the purpose of its being quashed, leave shall…
…It has been referred to as a chamber application throughout the typed proceedings of the Superior Court before us and we have to go by the proceedings before the Superior Court.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Suit
…Accordingly none of the parties to it or any other person would adduce them in evidence in subsequent proceedings without the consent of the parties to it.…
…policy of the law that disputes should be amicably settled, where possible, and parties be at liberty to freely admit certain facts to facilitate a settlement without the fear of them being used against them in subsequent proceedings…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…As a result of those proceedings the appellant filed Criminal application number 467 of 1987 in the High Court, Nairobi.…
…As respects issues of the Constitution, if a question as to the interpretation of the Constitution of Kenya arose during the proceedings before the subordinate court and the magistrate felt there was substantial question…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…Counsel for the appellant also faulted the way the trial was conducted by the magistrate and the way the proceedings were recorded wh ich he contended resulted in a miscarriage of justice.…
…The records of proceedings and the evidence by the parties is so jumbled that I find it impossible to make sense of the evidence that was adduced before the trial court.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…The proceedings of this Court were in English and Swahili. They were interpreted into the Swahili language by our court clerk Mr Njoroge.…
…The proceedings, which are shown to have been in English/Swahili were as follows: Accused: “I ask that the charge be read to me again”. Court: “Fair enough” Charge read over and explained.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…17th day of July, 1996 in H.C.C.C NO. 2523 & 533 OF 1982) ********************* RULING OF THE COURT The present application seeks several orders namely that the appeal filed by the respondent be struck out, that contain proceedings…
…and orders of the superior court to set aside, that a Receiver appointed in respect of the applicant company do file proofs of debt and stay of proceedings.…
Division and case type: Constitutional and Human RightsElection Petition
…Although dealing with service under rule 15, the Court was emphatic that there being no personal service and the advertisement in the gazette being out of time, the proceedings were a nullity.…
…Failure to serve within the stipulated 10 days renders any consequential proceedings a nullity. In our view the subrule is complete and positively states what to be done by who, on who and in which time span.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…The Oaths and Statutory Declarations Act Cap. 15 at S. 19provides as follows:- "Where, in any proceedings before any court or person having by law or consent of parties authority to receive evidence, any child of tender years…
…It must be recorded in the proceedings, that the court has taken this step. The cases of Nyasani s/o Bichana v. R. (1958)EA 190 and Kibangeny v.…
Division and case type: Constitutional and Human RightsElection Petition
…The facts leading to these proceedings are brief and straightforward.…
…No proceedings or decision of the Assembly or the Committee of Privileges acting in accordance with this Act shall be questioned in any Court.” 17.…
Division and case type: Constitutional and Human RightsElection Petition
…The facts leading to these proceedings are brief and straightforward.…
…No proceedings or decision of the Assembly or the Committee of Privileges acting in accordance with this Act shall be questioned in any Court.” 17.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…Secondly, the decree holder relies on the compromise settlement which was worked out before the attached goods, which, he says, included the subject matter of these objection proceedings, were released to the defendant by…
…Mr Kabuki, the advocate, who signed that consent settlement on behalf of the 3 objectors testified in the present objection proceedings to the effect the objector herein was one of his three clients on whose instructions…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…A final judgment of a competent Court in any criminal proceedings which declares any person to be guilty of a criminal offence shall, after the expiry of the time limited for an appeal against such judgment or after the date…
…complains about the learned judge awarding a sum of shs.80,000/= under the Law Reform Act when the respondent had not taken out letters of administration for the estate of her deceased husband at the time she instituted the proceedings…