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…In this case, the hearing notice for today has been served.…

…We are informed by the clerk of the court, that when a notice of hearing is issued, it is not the registry’s practice to specify, in addition, that the application to strike out will be heard because, the appellant being…

…Mr PL Otieno who appeared for the defendants in the application before me also submitted that no hearing notice was given to the 2nd defendants for the hearing on 9th December, 1987.…

…He refused to sign the hearing notice and attached to the return of service is a hearing notice which clearly informed the 2nd defendant that the case had been set for hearing on the 9th December, 1987 at 8.30 am.…

…Further that the appeal has high chances of success and that for the seven (7) years that the case was pending hearing and determination the appellants were out on bond and at no time did they abscond. I have heard Mr.…

…I have also noted the concerns raised in the pre-bond report and I am of the considered view since the appeal has been filed and a date for hearing has been fixed the case should proceed to hearing of the substantive appeal…

…The appellant indicated that he waited to be present at the hearing of the appeal and an order was made for his production at the hearing. On the hearing date, the appellant was absent and unrepresented.…

…I am not hearing the Review application. I will, therefore, resist thetemptation to go into the merits. I must stress however, that litigations musthave their final end.…

…However, where such a Judge is nolonger attached to the Court the review may be heard by any other Judgeattached to the court at the time it is called up for hearing.…

…I am not hearing the Review application. I will, therefore, resist thetemptation to go into the merits. I must stress however, that litigations musthave their final end.…

…However, where such a Judge is nolonger attached to the Court the review may be heard by any other Judgeattached to the court at the time it is called up for hearing.…

…This ground alone merited the appellant’s appeal to be admitted to hearing in the superior court. Summary rejection of that appeal was therefore wrong.…

…Accordingly, we allow the appellant’s appeal to this court, set aside the superior court’s order summarily rejecting the appellant’s appeal to that court and order that the said appeal be admitted to hearing by the superior…

…Thereafter, the Tribunal file got lost and the appeal could not be processed for hearing.…

…By a ruling dated 11th June, 2004, the superior court ordered that the dispute be taken back to the Tribunal for hearing de novo and that the appeal be marked as withdrawn with each party bearing its own costs.…

…There is inherent power to restore a case for hearing after it has been dismissed under order 16 rule 6. 2.…

…It follows from this quotation that there is an inherent power to restore a case for hearing after it has been dismissed under order 16, r 6.…

…On his second appeal to this Court, the appellant exhibited a curious reticence in lodging his memorandum of appeal, and over a year’s delay in the hearing was caused by an alleged hiatus between himself and his advocates…

…When the matter eventually came on for hearing he added to his grounds of appeal to the High Court that the learned Judge had failed to address his mind to the first petition of appeal, and the arguments advanced in support…

…On his second appeal to this Court, the appellant exhibited a curious reticence in lodging his memorandum of appeal, and over a year’s delay in the hearing was caused by an alleged hiatus between himself and his advocates…

…When the matter eventually came on for hearing he added to his grounds of appeal to the High Court that the learned Judge had failed to address his mind to the first petition of appeal, and the arguments advanced in support…

…The appellant filed a petition of appeal and during the hearing put in what he called submissions but which are in effect a repeat of the contents of the petition of appeal.…

…Upon our consideration of the proceedings in the two lower courts and hearing the submissions of the appellant we cannot find any such error. In the result this appeal is ordered to be dismissed with costs.…

…This is an after thought and although his appeal should correctly, have been admitted to hearing in view of that ground, no court would have accepted his belated explanation in the light of his unequivocal plea of guilty…

…No purpose would, therefore, be served by sending back this appeal to the High Court for admission for hearing.…

…Simon Nyamai attended the hearing of the appeal and the other appellants did not do so (at their own request).…

…Simon Nyamai added nothing in his submissions during the hearing of the appeal. We must be unmoved by these references to age or health or family obligations by such people.…

…Accordingly, we allow this appeal, set aside the award and order that the matter be remitted to the superior court for hearing and disposal by that court. The costs of this appeal are awarded to the appellant.…

…In the first of them, Lovelock v Margo [1963] 2 ALL ER, 13 the court rejected further reasons advanced at the hearing for refusing consent to the assignment, and held that the reason given at the time of the refusal amounted…

…last two authorities assist the respondents case here, for it is in dispute on the affidavits that there ever was a refusal of consent, or even an opportunity to refuse it, and the only reason given was advanced at the hearing…

…In addition to the above aspect, there is the issue whether or not the applicant is entitled to stay of execution pending the hearing and determination of an appeal.…

…At the hearing of the application, it must be demonstrated that the applicant will suffer substantial loss if the order on stay is denied.…

…This appeal came for hearing on 23rd July 1993 and counsel for the appellant argued that the learned Resident Magistrate had erred in refusing to set aside the ex-parte judgment although the delay in filing a defence was…

…Even then the claims made by the respondent were subject to enquire which would only be properly adjudicated upon when hearing both parties.…

…Can it embrace not only the clearest cases, but cases when there may be some argument, though the judge feels that they are not sufficient to go for hearing?…

…While the learned judge decided that there were no sufficient grounds to allow the appeal to go to hearing, in our opinion it cannot be said that this is one of the clearest cases.…