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…The application for Order of Prohibition was heard by two Judges of the High Court.…

…What kind of a mad man who has an opportunity to apply for Prohibition would opt for a trial, the risk of conviction and imprisonment.…

…The application for Order of Prohibition was heard by two Judges of the High Court.…

…Section 8(1) of the Act enjoins that High Court shall not in the exercise of its civil or criminal jurisdiction issue any order of prerogative writs of mandamus prohibition or certiorari.…

…It merely deleted the existing rule 53 according to which no application for an order of mandamus prohibition or certiorari may be made unless leave therefore has been granted.…

…The prohibition was statutory and absolute and was not therefore challengeable under procedural provisions of the Civil Procedure Rules, more specically Order 49 rule 5 which made provision for the enlargement of time.…

…The prohibition was absolute and any other interpretation or view of the particular provision would be doing violence to the very clear provision of section 9(3). Application refused.…

…LAW COURTS) JUDICIAL REVIEW MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATION E167 OF 2025 RE ABURILI, J DECEMBER 22, 2025 IN THE MATTER OF:- AN APPLICATION BY HUSSEIN MOHAMED ADAN FOR LEAVE TO APPLY FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW AND ORDERS OF CERTIORARI, PROHIBITION…

…There was no prohibition against looking at the letter to determine its contents and to see whether there was any ambiguity which should at all events be construed against the writer. 3. The issue raised by Mr.…

…Magistrate erred in law in convicting the appellant when the plea was not unequivocal, the learned Resident Magistrate erred in law in convicting the appellant when there was no evidence on record that there was an order of prohibition…

…judicial review order of certiorari to quash the Resident Magistrate’s order of 6th March 2006 in CMCC number 817 of 2006 restraining the Respondent from selling the vehicle as the same was given without jurisdiction and prohibition…

…Notwithstanding the provisions of any other written law, the fact that any matter in issue in any criminal proceedings is also directly or substantially in issue in any pending civil proceedings shall not be aground for any stay prohibition…

…(b) There was no evidence that the employee was aware of any prohibition to drive as alleged; (c) The employee was not called to give evidence, the onus of proof in such cases being always on the employer; (2) The learned…

…Even accepting that as express prohibition, using the vehicle along Thika/Garissa Road was, at worst, disobedience of the employer’s command while doing that which he (the servant) was employed to do, for he was employed…

…In that case Mr Blackburn who lived in London with his wife who was a ratepayer, applied successfully for an order of prohibition against the council to stop them acting in breach of their statutory duty to prevent the exhibition…

…In the Chang’aa Prohibition Act (Cap. 70) a statute enacted in August 1980 to prohibit the manufacture, supply and possession of chang’aa, “possession” is not defined either. “Possession” is not defined either.…

…Respondents result’s notification slips on English language issued against the Applicant on 12th November 2007 and 13th November 2007 by the Respondents language Board No. 7 and Appeals Board ‘A’ respectively; (iii) An order of prohibition…

…Respondents result’s notification slips on English language issued against the Applicant on 12th November 2007 and 13th November 2007 by the Respondents language Board No. 7 and Appeals Board ‘A’ respectively; (iii) An order of prohibition…

…The appellant attacks the taking of plea on count 1 by the Chief Magistrate and that of the other counts by a different magistrate but there is no legal prohibition of the course of action taken in the Court below.…

…I can read no prohibition in rules 7(2) and 8 to a plaintiff applying under rule 8 to set aside a dismissal of a suit under rule 4(1).…

…The compliance with the rules of natural justice is emphasised in Halsbury’s Laws of England, Third Edition Volume II para 122 at page 65 that: “An order of prohibition may be granted to restrain, and an order of certiorari…

…Prior to the early sixties, it was thought that what were then the prerogative orders of certiorari, prohibition and mandamus only lay against persons or bodies with judicial or quasi-judicial functions and did not apply…

…The types of reliefs available in judicial review proceedings are certiorari, prohibition, mandamus, claims for a declaration or injunction and for damages.…