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Division and case type: CivilCivil Suit
…Particulars of negligence and breach of common law duty of care have been given by the defendant in paragraphs 5 & 6 of the plaint.…
…A master owes a duty to his servant at common law and also under various statutes, such as the Factories Act.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…There had been a dispute for some considerable time between the Common Law of England and Merchantile Law as to the meaning of a month; the Common Law initially preferring a lunar month of 28 days, and Merchantile Law preferring…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…The first is that at common law, by which this Court is guided on contract, (see the Law of Contract Act (cap 23) specific performance of a contract of service has never been ordered.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…As this Court said in Zablon Mariga v Morris Musila [1984] 1 KAR 507 at p 512 Kenya is developing its own common law, independently of other jurisdictions, and its rules will be made, and developed according to the circumstances…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…stereotyped allegations of negligence which can be found in any standard text book on pleadings and in the pleadings in m9ost of the accident actions brought in any of the countries of which Kenya is one, which apply the common…
…law.…