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…The inordinate delay in the filing of the application for review. 3. Absence of any sufficient grounds.…

…With regard to the question of the locus standi and the inordinate delay it was apparent that Mr Gaturu during his eloquent submissions on these two issues had completely overlooked the fact that on 31st July, 1984, Mr Mutungi…

…Akhaabi has conceded and, rightly in my view, that there has been inordinate delay.…

…On the material before me, I find that there has been inordinate delay which has not been sufficiently or satisfactorily accounted for.…

…Clearly there was no inordinate delay on the part of the applicant in making its present application.…

…It is common ground that there has been an inordinate delay of well nigh three years in instituting the appeal. The fact of the delay has been placed squarely at the door of the applicant's counsel.…

…No explanation or record has been given from this inordinate delay. The application fails and is dismissed with costs. Dated and delivered at Nairobi this 11th day of June, 1997. A.A. LAKHA .................…

…Basically, the respondent argues that the application is fatally defective for inordinate delay and no sufficient cause has been shown by the applicant to justify grant of the reliefs applied for in the motion.…

…In the circumstances of this case, that cannot be said to be inordinate delay as there is a good reason for not complying with procedural timelines.…

…Nor do I think, having regard to the inordinate delay already occasioned, that this is a fit and proper case for the exercise of my discretion which I decline to exercise.…

…It has not been guilty of laches or of any inordinate delay. Realising that service might be defective it vehemently and extensively tracked the first respondent's managing director to his residence. Despite Mr.…

…Here, I am satisfied that there has been no inordinate delay in making the present application.…

…and we quote:- “We would add that, where as happened in this case at the time of the taking of plea there appears to be an unusual circumstance such as injury to the accused, or the accused is confused, or there has been inordinate…

…delay in bringing the accused to Court from the date of arrest etc, then an explanation of the circumstance must form an integral part of the facts to be stated by the prosecution to the Court.…

…After such inordinate delay the appellant was entitled to assume, the revival of suit (not attempted before expiry of limitation) had been abandoned and to regulate his affair of suit or to develop the same.”…

…this Court said: “We would add that there as happened in this case at the time of the taking of plea there appears to be unusual circumstance such as injury to the accused, or the accused is confused, or there has been inordinate…

…delay in bringing the accused to Court from the date of arrest, then an examination of the circumstances must form an integral part of the facts to be stated by the prosecution to the Court.…

…given in East Africa than in England by order LVIII rule 15 of the Rules of the Supreme Court, the mistake of a legal adviser could amount to sufficient cause, though in that case there was held to be no mistake but merely inordinate…

…delay, a factor which weighed with the court in Gachau v Karau (supra).…

…given in East Africa than in England by order LVIII rule 15 of the Rules of the Supreme Court, the mistake of a legal adviser could amount to sufficient cause, though in that case there was held to be no mistake but merely inordinate…

…delay, a factor which weighed with the court in Gachau v Karau (supra).…