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Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…By Section 3 (1) of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act which confers jurisdiction on this Court: “The Court of Appeal shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine appeals from the courts of Kenya in cases in which an appeal…
…Jurisdiction is not the same thing as procedure. Procedural rules do not bestow jurisdiction”.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…Analysis (a) The Question o f Jurisdiction 42. The 1st respondent submitted that this Court has no jurisdiction to entertain the Notice of Motion.…
…In each of those decisions, the Court has considered dierent angles of the jurisdictional question.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…Notwithstanding the provisions 4 of the said Code, I am of the view that a court which has no power to impose a minim sentence required by the penal provisions cannot have jurisdiction to try and determine the offence under…
…The conviction by Court without jurisdiction is a nullity and so is sentence. Both are quashed. The appellant be taken forthwith before a court of competent jurisdiction for a fresh trial.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…The order of 17.7.95 went on: 'This case involves a dispute in land and therefore it has been caught up by Act 18 of 1990 which took away the jurisdiction of courts.…
…This court as constituted had equal and concurrent jurisdiction with the court Osiemo Judge presided over leading to the ruling under attack.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Case
…It follows therefore that a person aggrieved by the Attorney General’s termination of criminal proceedings may invoke the High Court’s judicial review jurisdiction.…
…By the fact alone of this quasi-judicial review character, it follows that an aggrieved person, by the Attorney General’s termination of criminal proceeding, may invoke the High Court’s Judicial Review jurisdiction.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…It has been said many times by this Court that we have no inherent jurisdiction, and that we can only hear an appeal if the right thereof is conferred by statute.…
…As section 361 is specifically stated not to apply to a decision such as the one appealed from in this case, it follows that we have no jurisdiction to entertain these appeals.…
Division and case type: CRIMINAL DIVISIONCriminal Appeal
…It has been said many times by this Court that we have no inherent jurisdiction, and that we can only hear an appeal if the right thereof is conferred by statute.…
…As section 361 is specifically stated not to apply to a decision such as the one appealed from in this case, it follows that we have no jurisdiction to entertain these appeals.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Case
…The court lacked jurisdiction because judgment had been delivered, the court was functus officio and could not entertain the application especially that the application was for review and the respondent had preferred an appeal…
…The court has carefully considered the application and finds that the court has jurisdiction, despite the applicant’s preferred appeal, to rectify the mistake or incidental error in the judgment as established by the applicant…
Division and case type: FamilySuccession Cause
…The question is whether the Murang’a Senior Principal Magistrate’s Court had the pecuniary jurisdiction to hear and determine the cause.…
…It is obvious the trial Court had no pecuniary jurisdiction to hear the matter. Consequently the appeal is allowed. The proceedings and the order confirming the grant are set aside.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…The issue of identification raised by the appellant took away his appeal from the provisions of section 352(2) and the learned Judge had no jurisdiction to summarily dismiss the appeal under that section.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…The issue of identification raised by the appellant took away his appeal from the provisions of section 352(2) and the learned Judge had no jurisdiction to summarily dismiss the appeal under that section.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…_________ RULING OF THE COURT HANCOX, J A It has been held, repeatedly, by this court that failure to include the formally drawn up decree or order embodying the decision of the court appealed form, is a matter going to jurisdiction…
Division and case type: Constitutional and Human RightsConstitutional Petition
…Being dissatisfied with the outcome of the trial and the entire Judgment of the High Court he filed to the apex court with jurisdiction on criminal appeals.…
…I must say that the petitioner in his petition has not demonstrated that in the president decision on advisory of the committee on prerogative of mercy has acted in excess of jurisdiction, or acted without jurisdiction or…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…No.23 of 1991 (unreported), in altering the finding in an appeal against conviction and substituting therefor a conviction for an offence other than that charged, the High Court in its appellate jurisdiction can only act…
…It would appear to us therefore that the first appellate court in the appeal before us had no jurisdiction to substitute the appellants' conviction in the first and second counts referred to earlier in this judgment from…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…CAUSE NO. 11 OF 1992) *************************** JUDGMENT OF THE COURT This appeal emanates from the judgment of the High Court of Kenya Admiralty Jurisdiction (Mbaluto, J.) dated 15th October, 1993 sitting at Mombasa.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…No.23 of 1991 (unreported), in altering the finding in an appeal against conviction and substituting therefor a conviction for an offence other than that charged, the High Court in its appellate jurisdiction can only act…
…It would appear to us therefore that the first appellate court in the appeal before us had no jurisdiction to substitute the appellants' conviction in the first and second counts referred to earlier in this judgment from…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…Kuloba, J overruled the preliminary objections raised inter alia, on the grounds that he, having no jurisdiction to hear an appeal against the order of Oguk, J setting aside the stay of proceedings, he could not even if he…
…His reason for doing this, inter alia, and which we find wholly untenable, was that the jurisdiction of his Court could not be ousted by “the simple devise of an unguardedly phrased arbitration clause”, which is well known…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…Sec 3A of the Act which replaces section 97, concerns the inherent jurisdiction. The originating summons can only be used as the omnibus carrying all inherent matters within it, if provision is so made.…
…Where a question of jurisdiction is concerned, this court must take it up, whether or not the point was raised below.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…cited various Indian cases in support of his proposition that where in a rule the procedure to be adopted for a remedy is excluded, except in relation to the procedure laid down in the rule; in other words, the Court has no jurisdiction…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…unqualified person shall act as an advocate, or as such cause any summons or other process to issue, or institute, carry on or defend any suit or other proceedings in the name of any other person in any court of civil or criminal jurisdiction…