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…When the appeal came for hearing in the superior court, Mr Chunga raised a preliminary objection based on section 348 of the Criminal Procedure Code, that the appeal against conviction was incompetent and should be struck…

…out.…

…proceedings either upon or without the application of either party, (my emphasis) and on such terms as may appear to the court to be just, order that the name of the party improperly joined, whether as a plaintiff or defendant be struck…

…out”.…

…The Respondent, however, filled a Notice of Motion on February 15, 1982, seeking that the defence be struck out as disclosing no reasonable answer to the claim, under order 6 Rule 13 of the Civil Procedure Rules, and summary…

…The judge (Porter J) allowed both applications, struck out the defence and counterclaim, and entered judgement for the Respondent as prayed.…

…The applicants original appeal NO. 80 of 1996 was struck out by this Court on 10th April, 1997 for the reason that the notice of appeal contained therein was unsigned by or on behalf of the applicants as is required by rule…

…The applicant's original appeal had been struck out for being incompetent in that the date shown on the extracted decree as the date of the judgment, differed from that shown in the record of appeal as the date of judgment…

…The latter had ruled on 12th September, 1986 that the defence of the Defendant Corporation, the Kenya Film Corporation Limited, must be struck out as showing no cause of defence and for being vexatious (inter alia), under…

…But on 27th October, 1988 this Court ruled that the Notice of cross-appeal must be struck out because it sought to question the judgment of Mr Justice J.S. Patel after so much time had lapsed.…

…Secondly that if the applicant is asking for the release of his title deed, then this in effect means that the defendant has no defence to the action and applicant should have therefore asked for defence to be struck out…

…Chacha does not apply to this case since the 2nd Defendant does not ask that the plaint be struck out. His argument simply is that the suit has been filed out of time, and is barred by the Limitation of Actions Act.…

…In one party to a litigation does not take steps to prosecute its case, it is open to the other party to take steps to have those proceedings struck out.…

…It is contended by the petitioner that the application be struck out as a sham and abuses the court process. As the goods were supplied in 1996 to 1997, the company does not show liability has ever been disputed.…

…2 and all other enabling provisions of the Civil Procedure Rules and Sections 4, 27, 28, 29 and 30 of the Limitation of Actions Act (cap 22) that the plaintiff’s (respondent) suit against the Defendants (Appellants) be struck…

…out.…

…Unfortunately, that appeal was struck out by this Court on 15th February, 1996, as the record of appeal did not contain a certified copy of the order appealed against.…

…We hold that the appeal is incompetent and is struck out. Dated and delivered at Nairobi this 24th day of November , 1988 J.O. NYARANGI ........................................ JUDGE OF APPEAL H.G.…

…Justice Rauf struck out the plaint in the superior court whilst holding that the plaint did not set out important averments relating to alleged inducing of breach of contract.…

…The appeal filed against the ruling of the learned judge ordering dismissal of the suit but deferring such dismissal until the application for amendment was heard has already been struck out as that appeal was filed without…

…Mr Oraro said he had a simple legal answer to the objections of Mr Ombaka and he referred to Orders VI rule 13 (1) of the Civil Procedure Rules which reads: “At any stage of the proceedings the court may order to be struck…

…out or amend any pleading on the ground that: “(a) it discloses no reasonable cause of action or defence”.…

…The application is vexatious and a blatant abuse of the due process of the honourable court and ought to be struck out.…

…When the appeal came up for hearing on the 13th day of November, 1997, this time with the supplementary record, the court struck the same out as the appeal was not filed in time as extended by Muli J.A; it was not possible…

…Even this application was filed within two days after the appeal was struck out. I see no tardiness on the part of the applicant. Counsel erred genuinely as I have pointed out. The authorities cited by Dr.…

…The defence and counter-claim having been found to be mere smokescreen defence and averments, they were struck out as shown and intended merely to postpone the inevitable pay-day, and as being an abuse of the process of the…

…The superior court (Commissioner Gacheche) struck out the plaint and entered summary judgment against the applicant in the sum of Shs. 11,800,000/-.…