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…In conclusion the 1st defendant withdrew the 1st plaintiff’s licence for having acted contrary to the CPK’s Constitution and terminated his services as a church minister with immediate effect.…

…However, another questionwhich arises out of this relationship is “can a servant whose services have been terminated impose himself upon his master?” I think he cannot.…

…Even though the defendants were served and an Affidavit of service duly filed, they neither filed any responses nor attended court to oppose the application.…

…It is not in dispute that the respondent was unable to service the mortgage and soon fell into grave arrears compelling Daima Bank to demand payment of the principal sum together with interest which stood at Shs.43,269,829.15…

…So when the senior Deputy Registrar before whom the matter was wrongly listed on 31/5/90 adjourned the petition to be listed before a judge on 4/6/90 no service was affected on the applicant for the new date.…

…In the case of Embu Public Road Service Ltd. vs Riimi (1968) E A 22 where the vehicle traveling at between 20-25 M.P.H. which had its spring suddenly broken thus causing an accident in which a passenger was injured, the trial…

…so inordinately low or so inordinately high that it must represent an erroneous estimate of damages or must be indicative of an error of principle by the trial court – see for example, KEMFRO AFRICA LTD. t/a MERU EXPRESS SERVICE…

…I did voluntary service.”…

…The criticism of non-service of the plaint upon the Defendant must be merited.…

…For that matter how can it be that non-service of a plaint can be ‘as provided by law? How can it be an abuse of the court process to make an application to strike out a plaint?…

…Service of summons shall be effected through the plaintiff’s advocates chambers.”…

…With respect to the fifth to the eighth plaintiffs, their case is that the defamatory words though they are not specifically named therein, apply to them because of their previous military service.…

…Learned state counsel personally took the letter to the debtor who read it but declined to accept service. On May 11, 1989, the state counsel addressed another letter to the debtor.…

…The appellant, in his wisdom, declined to accept service. Another letter was sent to the appellant by registered post on May 11th, 1989.…

…amendment to rule 23, (by Legal Notice 14 of 1983 dated January 28, 1983), is that a winding up petition shall be advertised not less than seven days after service and at least seven days before the hearing, in the manner…

…It was, I think, common ground that at the time the petition was advertised, it did not comply with rule 23 as it was after the 1983 amendment, which requires advertisement not less than seven days after its service on the…

…Its Registration book or Public Service licence was never produced. In an offence of this nature, the giving and receiving of the inducement are crucial to establish the same.…

…Such notice has to be decided considering the length of service of the employee and the level at which he was functioning. The plaintiff had worked for about 8 years for the defendant.…

…Deverell for the Respondent has quite correctly stated the construction that should be put on our Rule regarding the service of a notice of appeal namely, as held in Cassam v.…

….………..RESPONDENT JUDGMENT The appellants were all convicted of theft by persons employed in the public service contrary to section 280 of the Penal Code after a trial in the resident magistrate’s court in Nairobi ending on…

…The fact that the service is to be given by means of, or by instrumentality of, words can make no difference.…

…And Lord Devlin said in the same case at page 608 paragraph T – G: “The respondents in this case cannot deny that they were performing a service.…

…upon the plaintiff requiring him to obtain an order from the High Court to extend the duration of the caveat in default of which the Registrar would remove the caveat forty five days from October 27th, 1988, the date of service…

…In fact in section 16 (3) a debtor who fails to submit his statement of affairs within 14 days of the service of the receiving order on him without any reasonable excuse may on the application of the official receiver be…

…drew attention to Ochieng vs Republic [1985] KLR 252 in which the appellant faced multiple charges, i.e. 44 counts, alleging forgery, fraudulent false accounting, uttering and stealing by a person employed in the public service…