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…The appellant claimed, by his plaint, that the second respondent (who was served but failed to enter appearance as a result of which judgment was entered against him as prayed on the application of the advocate for the plaintiff…

…Karuri in turn filed suit against Ndoo and his employee, Kituo, the bus driver, for damages arising out of Kituo’s negligence but later, Karuri’s advocate withdrew it for reasons which were not vouchsafed to this court.…

…Mr Ger appears as advocate for the plaintiff; the first defendant is represented by Mr Ombogo. The second defendant has not appeared or been represented, and has taken no part in the proceedings.…

…Before leaving this case, I must express my gratitude to Mr Ger and Mr Ombego, advocates for the plaintiff and the defendant, respectively, for the painstaking research they have made into the law and custom of the Luo people…

…The appellant made no application for stay of proceedings but when the case came up for hearing on 12th August 1992, more than four years later, the appellant's Advocate raised the arbitration issue in the form of a preliminary…

…The application was supported by an affidavit sworn by the Appellant’s Advocate who deponed inter alia that the plaintiff’s action was statute barred and further stated that the plaintiff failed and / or is unable to show…

…THAT I am advised by the Applicant’s advocate, Mr.…

…THAT I am advised by our Advocate on record, Mr.…

…On this head, the respondent’s advocate had submitted as follows:- “The plaintiff has claimed loss of earning capacity of K.shs.4000/- per month. The plaintiff has not adduced any evidence concerning this.…

…If that had been the case, and there is not a speck of evidence to support that suggestion from the plaintiff’s advocate, then the accident would have happened only if the 2nd defendant had been travelling in the lane next…

…submitted that a breach of rule 23 was not irredeemable, that it was not his wish to have the appeal decided on technicalities and that in any event the court would be reluctant to penalize a party for the mistake of his advocate…

…Until January 1983, every petition had to be advertised at least seven days before the hearing otherwise the appointment for hearing would be cancelled unless the petitioner or his advocate appeared before the registrar to…

…The question for decision in this appeal is whether the expenditure incurred by the taxpayer appellant in payment of legal costs to the advocates for its bankers in connection with preparation of security documents to provide…

…The Advocates, Messrs. Shapley Barrett & Company prepared the necessary legal documents providing security and tendered their fee note. The total demanded was Shs 52,987.50.…

…This notwithstanding, from the first date of the appellant’s appearance in the superior court on 14th October, 2003, he was represented by an advocate called Mose who raised no issue of constitutional breaches which he must…

…Ratemo Oira Advocate while the State was represented by Mr. Monda, Principal State Counsel. Mr Oira relied on the six grounds set out in the memorandum of appeal filed on 11th March, 2011 as follows: 1.…

…This notwithstanding, from the first date of the appellant’s appearance in the superior court on 14th October, 2003, he was represented by an advocate called Mose who raised no issue of constitutional breaches which he must…

…The respondent’s Advocate raised no objection. The upshot was that the SRM ruled in favour of the appellant and adopted the award.…

…Before the sentence was passed the appellant’s advocate told the court there was no motion of the judgment.…

…Before the sentence was passed the appellant’s advocate told the court there was no motion of the judgment.…

…According to him, Quadrant Services Limited is controlled by the firm of Messrs Kaplan & Stratton, advocates.…

…At all material times therefore, he caused one Michael E Aronson, a partner in the said firm of advocates to be appointed as a director of Stones Limited.…

…Mr Goswami is an advocate of the High Court and he appeared with Mr Oraro for the principal respondents in the superior court as well as this Court. The Father does not accept that Rai Ply is run as a family company.…

…Alternatively, each party may appoint one arbitrator and the two arbitrators so appointed would then choose an umpire who should preferably be a senior advocate or chartered accountant registered to practise in Kenya.…

…] A.U.E.R. 442 The Mekefjell [1976] 2 Lloyds Law Reports 29 The Kislovodst [1980] 2 Lloyds Law Reports 183 The El Amria [1981] 2 Lloyds Law Reports 119 Abidin Daver [1984] W.L.R. 196 Halloway v Povey [1984] 271 E.G. 195 Advocates…

…leading counsel who travelled from abroad to appear before us to argue the appeal on behalf of the defendants and the plaintiff respectively would not appear to have had their attention drawn to Carl Ronning by the local advocates…

…When he consulted his advocate in July 1991, he was informed that he could not sue because the claim was time-barred.…