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…The court held that the statutory limitation period was mandatory and absolute, and could not be extended through procedural rules.…

…Whether the six-month limitation period prescribed under section 9(3) of the Law Reform Act for ling an application for leave to apply for an order of certiorari was mandatory and absolute. ii.…

…On the 23rd day of October 1981 the appellant David Stephen Gatune as applicant moved the High Court, Nakuru (Mead J as he then was) by a Notice of Motion ex parte pursuant to section 22 and 28 of the Limitation of Actions…

…Arguing the appeal, Mr Kariuki referred to Section 28 of the Limitation of Actions Act (the Act) under which the appellant had applied for leave of the Court for purposes of section 27 of the Act and pointed out that the…

…appeal on the following grounds: (1) That they obtained leave before filing the suit and the appellants did not by either evidence submissions or even cross examination challenge that averment. (2) That raising the issue of limitation…

…In reply counsel for the appellant stated that the issue of limitation is a matter of jurisdiction which can be raised at t any stage of the proceedings even on appeal.…

…The learned state counsel concludes her submission by stating that under the Public Authorities Limitation Act, cap 39 Laws of Kenya, this action is barred by section 3(1) as read with section 5 in that the action was filed…

…In any case, I do not know whether she considered the effect of section 26(b) and or (c) of the Limitation of Actions Act, cap 22.…

…The charge is still valid if it can be proved even by inference as it is not covered by the limitation for summary offences set out in section 219 of the Criminal Procedure Code. 3.…

…elapsed between January, 1969, and the date the appellant was brought to court in February, 1988, not far short of twenty years, the charge if still valid it if can be proved, even by inference, as it is not covered by the limitation…

…Order XXXVI rule 3D subrules (1) and (2) of the Civil Procedure Rules, provides: “3D 1 1) An application under section 38 of the Limitation of Actions Act shall be made by originating summons. 2 2) The summons shall be supported…

…Section 38(1) of the Limitation of Actions Act, Cap 22 Laws of Kenya, the Act, is in the following terms: “38(1) Where a person claims to have become entitled by adverse possession to land registered under any of the Acts…

…Another point which would be considered, though not argued, would be limitation.…

…Under section 7 of the Limitation of Actions Act (cap 22) no suit based on the claim of Land should be brought after the expiration of 12 years.…

…The issue of limitation of time immediately comes into mind as this suit was filed twenty (20) years after the cause of action arose.…

…I make no orders as to costs as the advocate is at liberty subject to the statute of limitation, to le before the High Court, his bill of costs for taxation by the taxing ocer or master as stipulated in law. 32.…

…I make no orders as to costs as the advocate is at liberty subject to the statute of limitation, to le before the High Court, his bill of costs for taxation by the taxing ocer or master as stipulated in law. 32.…

…This power is vested in the chief executive who is the managing director with no specific limitation and he very well bonafidely believed and rightly so that he could commission works of such magnified without recourse to…