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…Githu Muigai Advocate, Mr. Mukele and Mr Kihara Muttu appear for the 1st and 2nd Respondents while Mr A.N. Ngunjiri advocate appears for the 4th respondent. The third respondent has not filed any papers at all.…

…accompanied by a copy of the petition, shall, within 10 days of the presentation of the petition, be served by the petitioner on the respondent. (2) service may be effected either by delivering the notice and copy to the advocate…

…The appellant and his then advocate, had failed to attend court on the day fixed for the hearing of the suit.…

…But then, there is the case of the plaintiff who may have been seriously injured in a motor accident and is lying in hospital, or whose advocate is so injured and cannot explain away his absence on the same day for hearing…

…Therefore principal state advocate does not support the conviction. I am in agreement with him and will allow this appeal. The convictions quashed and sentence set aside. July 14, 1987 TORGBOR JUDGE…

…This action appears to have been taken as a result of two letters, one from Afrocox to the defendant (dated September 5, 1984) and the other from Afrocox’s advocates (dated September 7, 1984) to the defendant.…

…From Ashford’s advocate came a letter dated September 18, 1984, indicating their lack of interest in the matter and telling the defendant to address further correspondence to the plaintiff.…

…But a Notice of Appointment of Advocates is generally filed by advocates to enable them to conduct interlocutory proceedings on behalf of their client(s) prior to service of summons.…

…Such a document gives the relevant locus standi to advocates to appear for their client(s) prior to service of summons. In fact it would be prudent for an advocate to file such a Notice which Mr. Ibrahim did.…

…The advocate of the respondent company gave the appellant another chance in mid-February 1981 to return (not resell) the other compressor or else the respondent would sue for its price at once.…

…He attached to his affidavit nineteen photocopies of documents from one party to the other or their advocates or to the supplier of the compressors in London or Singapore between September 4, 1979 and June 24, 1981.…

…The deceased was an advocate by profession. He died in a motor car accident.…

…Long association and cohabitation: these were, I presume, what her advocate at the trial, Mr.…

…But the applicant and his advocate managed to get to the venue of nomination before 1:00 p.m.…

…Gitobu Imanyara, Advocate who appeared for the Applicant. There are several annexures to the affidavit. I have perused them all.…

…DEFENDANT RULING This suit was fixed by the plaintiff advocates for hearing today after which he served the defendants counsel with a hearing notice for today.…

…He failed to meet his advocate last Friday. I have perused the plaint. Plaint claims that in 1977 defendant closed the boundary between his land and plaintiffs land parcel no.…

…Before the application was heard inter partes the advocates for the respondent raised a preliminary objection to the application. It is this preliminary objection which is the subject matter of this ruling.…

…The advocate for the applicant/plaintiffs argued that indeed the courts had inherent jurisdiction at the level of the High Court.…

…He appealed against that decision but his advocate, Mr Orengo, abandoned the appeal against his sentence because on a second appeal this court could not interfere with it (section 361(1) Criminal Procedure Code (cap 75).…

…It was to his relatives to collect the fees for his advocate.…

…By a letter dated 3rd April, 1996, the applicant asked the High Court for its proceedings and ruling to enable the applicant lodge an appeal.That letter was not copied to the respondent's advocates; nor was it copied to respondents…

…One Mwangi Mbuthia, the advocate for the applicant, has sworn a supporting affidavit and he explains the delay by saying that they were looking for some criminal proceedings which they thought were necessary to enable them…

…The application was supported by an affidavit of the appellant's then advocate and based solely on the ground of non-service. The learned Judge was satisfied that there was service which when shown to Mr.…

…Apart from the averment that the appellant was the advocate of Kimunye Investment company Limited, the charge was not clear as to what the terms of the agency were. The charge ends by saying:- “………….…

…It must not be forgotten that the intentions of Kimunye Investments Company and the vendor’s advocates M/s Waruhiu & Muite were that the accused will collect the money and pay the vendor before March 3, 1979 as expressly…

…in the record of appeal which was served upon the appellant, and in addition he was aware that this appeal had been filed from the correspondence exchanged between the deputy registrar of this court and the appellant’s advocate…

…which was copied to the respondent’s advocate.…

…is from 22nd January, 1997, when the related application was made, until 2nd July, 1997, was due to the difficulties experienced in tracing the court file in the High Court, and the funeral and burial arrangements that Advocate…

…The plaintiffs also paid shs.1,000 to the advocate who prepared the sale agreement. The defendant later changed his mind and so he could not allow the plaintiffs to utilize this land.…

…Kibanga Advocate for Appellants Mr. Kilonzi Advocate for Respondents Court Clerk Muli ******************** RULING The dispute which originated from the lower court at Kitui (SPM.CC. 102/95) has arrived here on appeal.…

…The Plaintiff has averred on oath that she did not appear before the named advocate whether to execute the charge or to have the advocate explain to her the contents of the charge that she had allegedly executed.…

…matter of legal right, the Plaintiff was entitled to be given a legal explanation of the contents of the charge prior to her execution in consonance with the law hence the mandatory legal requirement for certification by an Advocate…