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Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…The records show that the parties were subsequently represented by Advocates although in the pleadings were not amended and several applications and counter applications were presented at the interlocutory stage.…
…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…
Division and case type: Constitutional and Human RightsPetition
…I recognize that parties are bound by their pleadings and I am unable to reconcile how in her evidence petitioner claims to have been tricked into marriage and she didn’t even release they had had a wedding, yet in her pleadings…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Suit
…While it may be desirable to plead such an important point of law in one’s pleadings failure to do so in my view does not preclude the plaintiff from adducing and relying on such evidence.…
…Under order VI rule 3 Civil Procedure Rules a party need not plead evidence and under order VI rule 7 a party is at liberty to raise or leave out a point of law in his pleadings.…
Division and case type: Constitutional and Human RightsElection Petition
…(iv) THAT I aver and affirm that parties are bound by their pleadings and that any evidence led by any of the parties which does not support the averments in the pleadings, or put in another way, which is at variance with…
…the averments of the pleadings goes to no issue and must be disregarded.…
Division and case type: Constitutional and Human RightsElection Petition
…(iv) THAT I aver and affirm that parties are bound by their pleadings and that any evidence led by any of the parties which does not support the averments in the pleadings, or put in another way, which is at variance with…
…the averments of the pleadings goes to no issue and must be disregarded.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…I have carefully considered all the pleadings and submissions made in this matter.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…This led to the subsequent pleadings being wrongly headed. However, I do not think that this affects the substances and merits of the matter and decide the same on merits.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…for declaration by originating summons, but under the amended rule 10 of the same order if an originating summons has been filed, it can proceed as if the suit was commenced by plaint and the affidavit filed be treated as pleadings…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…There was also a passage in Bullen & Leake’s Precedents of Pleadings (3rd edition) pp 362, 363 and the authority of Riley v Baxendale (1861), 6 H & N 445 in which the Court (Pollock CB and Martin and Wilde BB) was of the…