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…To establish cruelty the complainant must show to the satisfaction to the Court and must be misconduct of a grave and weighty nature, real injury to the complainant’s, health or reasonable apprehension of such injury, that…

…the injury was caused by misconduct on the part of the respondent and that on the whole of the evidence the conduct amounted to cruelty in the ordinary sense of that word.…

…Also that the disciplinary committee and the Board of Governors discussed the matter and decided that the applicants were guilty of misconduct and could be expelled.…

…The deponent goes on to state that on July 28, 1986, he wrote to each applicant to inform each of the claimed misconduct and to convey the decision of the disciplinary committee and of the Board that the applicants had been…

…In light of the foregoing, the Bank is entitled to dismiss you summarily for gross misconduct.…

…I have considered those ground and come to the conclusions that, viewed on a balance of probabilities, they amounted to misconduct. It was such misconduct as entitled the defendant to dismiss the plaintiff.…

…Authority Officers) Regulations 1984, the Town Clerk required the Plaintiff to show cause why disciplinary action should not be taken against her including dismissal from the service of Nairobi City Commission on the grounds of misconduct…

…stratigically waiting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government was wrting his letter of that date advised the acting Town Clerk to dismiss the Plaintiff with effect from 3rd August, 1989 on grounds of gross misconduct…

…First, misconduct must be proved of a grave and weighty nature. It must be more than mere trivialities.…

…Thirdly, it must be proved that it is the misconduct of the respondent which caused the injury to the health of the complainant.…

…Itwas his submission further, that delay in filing the award or even of commencing the arbitration was an act of misconduct on the part of the arbitrator.…

…This section, does not state when knowledge of any such error may come to hand, and indeed even if proved section 17 allows the employee to dispute whether the facts give rise to gross misconduct, which is the generic description…

…His misconduct, in my view, was gross and extreme and took his act outside the scope of his employment. What he was doing was not even incidental to the work he was employed to do.…