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…Sub-section (2) thereof gives a District Magistrate’s Court jurisdiction to settle disputes and make declarations for the purposes of proceedings instituted under subsection (1)(b) of the Section.…

…It is obvious that the suit violates the aforesaid provisions which expressly confer jurisdiction upon a District Magistrate’s Court to determine disputes such as the present.…

…Section 200 of the Criminal Procedure Code enacts : (a) Subject to subsection (3), where a magistrate, after having heard and recorded the whole or part of the evidence in a trial, ceases to exercise jurisdiction therein…

…and is succeeded by another magistrate who has and exercises that jurisdiction, the succeeding magistrate may : Deliver a judgment that has been written and signed but not delivered by his predecessor; or Where judgment has…

…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.…

…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.…

…As we explained to Mr Otumba, we have no jurisdiction to entertain ground 3 of the memorandum of appeal, which was against the sentence.…

…Even if it were possible for us to ascertain to whom the vehicle KWL 653 belonged we would have no jurisdiction to make any order in respect of its destination.…

…That the learned District Magistrate erred in law and in fact in handling a case having no jurisdiction to do so. This appeal was filed way back in April 1997 but for unknown reasons it was never prosecuted.…

…Due to the nature of the proceedings, this appeal should be allowed and the matter referred to retrial but looking at the pleadings, certain issues emerge that touches on the validity of the claims and the jurisdiction of…

…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.…

…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.…

…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…

…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…

…open to controversy in the early suit (ie that the subject matter in dispute is the same), either actually or constructively; (b) that the same subject matter in dispute now came in question before a Court of competent jurisdiction…

…That is to say, there I showed the conditions of applying the doctrine of res judicata to be (a) Identity of the matter in issue; (b) Identity of the parties; (c) Sameness of title; (d) Concurrence of jurisdiction; (e) Finality…

…He was, we think, then disqualified from hearing the case and should have transferred it to another magistrate of competent jurisdiction.…

…Firstly, section 28 confers upon this court the jurisdiction to extend such responsibility.…

…Secondly the Constitution of Kenya also confers upon this court unlimited original jurisdiction in all matters both of a civil and criminal nature.…

…Firstly, section 28 confers upon this court the jurisdiction to extend such responsibility.…

…Secondly the Constitution of Kenya also confers upon this court unlimited original jurisdiction in all matters both of a civil and criminal nature.…

…Ours is merely to say that in all the circumstances, the learned judge erred in summarily rejecting the appeal where he had no jurisdiction to do so, and we do say so.…

…The applicant was aggrieved by the decision of the trial court and sought to invoke the jurisdiction of this court to review the said bond terms, which in his view was draconian, punitive and excessive.…

…He further argued the procedure adopted by applicant is wrong as Section 47 of the Law of Succession is a Section declaring jurisdiction of court and that all applications not provided for by the Rules are brought to court…

…Section 47 of the Law of Succession Act provides:- “ The High Court shall have jurisdiction to entertain any application and determine any dispute under this Act and providence such decrees and make such orders therein as…

…He concluded by submitting that the offence of desertion amounted to a labour dispute and as such the jurisdiction to hear the matter lay with the Employment and Labour Relations Court.…

…The court stated as follows: “We cannot but emphasize the importance of precise claims in due process, substantive justice, and the exercise of jurisdiction by a court.…

…In essence, due process, substantive justice and the exercise of jurisdiction are a function of precise legal and factual claims. However, we also note that precision is not coterminous with exactitude.…