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…Shitsama argued that the recent amendment to section 20 of the Act had brought a significant change in the law and that under the law as it now stands only the petition has to be served upon the respondent and not the notice…

…Before its amendment, section 20 (1) of the Act read as follows:- (I) A petition - (a) to question the validity of an election, shall be presented within twenty-eight days after the date of publication of the result of the…

…little time to persuade the advocates that under rule 5(2)(b) the court has its own jurisdiction to grant an injunction pending an appeal since February 8, 1984 when it was provided for by clause 3 of the Court of Appeal (Amendment…

…The conditions in the amendment rule for the exercise of it are that a notice of appeal has been lodged in accordance with rule 74 and that if it is granted it will be so on such terms as the court may think just.…

…little time to persuade the advocates that under rule 5(2)(b) the court has its own jurisdiction to grant an injunction pending an appeal since February 8, 1984 when it was provided for by clause 3 of the Court of Appeal (Amendment…

…The conditions in the amendment rule for the exercise of it are that a notice of appeal has been lodged in accordance with rule 74 and that if it is granted it will be so on such terms as the court may think just.…

…objection, that the magistrate erred in trying the case when another suit had been filed in another court relating to the same land, that the magistrate had no powers to her the case by virtue of The Magistrates’ Jurisdiction (Amendment…