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…Damages are clearly payable to the parents of a deceased child, irrespective of the age of the child and irrespective of whether there is or there is not evidence of pecuniary contribution. 3.…

…The award of shs 100,000/- was in any event excessive and not supported by any evidence of loss. We shall deal with ground one first.…

…That no evidence has been adduced to support the defendant’s defence that the plaintiff respondent was negligent, the defendant has not done anything to counter the plaintiffs evidence and found the plaintiffs case proved…

…I have re-evaluated the evidence adduced before the lower court in the light of the grounds of appeal. The first complaint relates to the issue of Limitation of Actions Act.…

…The prosecution called evidence to show that a handwritten document which was exhibited may have been forged. A copy of the document was in the possession of the appellant.…

…No clear evidence was adduced to show that she either made the document or was party to its making.…

…(xxxiii) THAT the Respondent herein relied on hearsay evidence which he was unable to substantiate during the hearing of the Petition and should now not be allowed to re-open his case by fishing for fresh evidence which was…

…and lay a basis in the Petition and the Affidavit evidence filed in support of the Petition.…

…That the agreement was for only Kshs.7,000/= which was demanded, that a relative is not precluded from giving evidence as in marriage ceremonies.…

…The duty of this court on appeal is to re-evaluate all the evidence on the record and decide whether the conclusions reached by the learned trial magistrate are to stand or not.…

…The learned Resident Magistrate, Mrs Opondo, wrote a detailed judgment in which she took into account the prosecution evidence as well as the defence of the appellant.…

…In the case subject to this appeal, there is no doubt the learned Resident Magistrate relied mainly on the evidence of the complainant to convict the appellant on both counts.…

…No evidence was adduced in this case to support the discrete advice to the defendant that the vehicle was being used as a matatu.…

…There was no independent evidence to support this discrete advice to the defence witness.…

…The learned judge summed up all the evidence in detail and explained the relevant law to the assessors. He tackled the evidence again in his judgment just as thoroughly.…

…He noted the absence of evidence from anyone who saw these killings so what the republic had put forward amounted to a confession apiece, since retracted, and circumstantial evidence.…

…Although the appellant disputed the amount he was paid for the trees which he had planted on the acquired portion, it came out in evidence that although he was compensated for the trees, he admitted in his evidence that he…

…I also noted in the evidence that Kurban Allibhai Bannie a valuer who testified for the appellant was not registered at the time of carrying the valuation.…

…The witnesses gave concurrent evidence. At the close of the whole case counsel for the plaintiffs put in written submissions and the major points relied on by them are:- 1.…

…It is his stand that since the evidence is not challenged liability is established.…

…(xxxiii) THAT the Respondent herein relied on hearsay evidence which he was unable to substantiate during the hearing of the Petition and should now not be allowed to re-open his case by fishing for fresh evidence which was…

…and lay a basis in the Petition and the Affidavit evidence filed in support of the Petition.…

…This case was filed in Court by the respondent who in her evidence said that amongst the documents enclosed in the letter to her husband was a degree certificate for her said husband which he was supposed to use in securing…

…Furthermore the consideration of expenses of renting two houses one in Nairobi and another in Bungoma was not proved in evidence.…

…She states in her evidence that respondent’s conduct has caused her a lot of damage and after the visit to the DC’s office they just returned to Angels Bay and did not get intimate – hence there was no consummation.…

…I recognize that parties are bound by their pleadings and I am unable to reconcile how in her evidence petitioner claims to have been tricked into marriage and she didn’t even release they had had a wedding, yet in her pleadings…

…That the learned trial magistrate observed that there was a conflicting evidence which created doubt in the prosecutions case and that doubt should have been resolved in favour of the appellant.…

…I have re-evaluated the evidence adduced before the lower court on my own and I find that there is no dispute that the appellant’s vehicle was going ahead of that of the complainant in the lower court, that the distance between…

…On their first appeal to the superior court, that court held that sufficient evidence had been tendered at their trial but purporting to follow the decision of this Court in Johana Ndungu v. Republic, Cr. A.…

…It was on the basis of this evidence that the appellants were convicted by the trial court as is outlined at the beginning of this judgment.…

…The other grounds relate to matters of the evidence and ndings of fact which, since this is a second appeal, this court need not be concerned with.…

…Both the trial and the rst appellate court set out in detail the evidence which linked the appellant with his alias David Mwai Waweru and the transactions of opening the Kwake Enterprises Bank account and withdrawals of…

…I would make an order remitting the proceedings to the High Court to hear and determine the case according to the evidence, which in my opinion should be oral evidence, brought before it.…

…At the beginning of the hearing of the appeal, the court asked for the evidence of the refusal of consent by the appellant. There was no letter embodying any such refusal.…

…It follows from the affidavit evidence that the applicant could not proceed to file an appeal from a Judgment he was not made aware of its existence.…

…In my view the applicant has discharged the burden on the conditions precedent based on the affidavit evidence to support exercise of discretion in its favour under Order 42 Rule 6 of the Civil Procedure Rules.…

…On this evidence, the trial court convicted the appellant for the offence of handling stolen property contrary to section 322 (2) of the Penal Code and sentenced him to 7 years imprisonment with hard labour…