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…Service on an agent is essentially second hand; second best. Service of process is so crucial a matter in litigation that courts including Deputy Registrars must encourage the best of service; i.e personal service.…

…As Nyarangi, JA has correctly pointed out, service of process is so crucial a matter in litigation that courts must encourage the best of service – personal service. 24.…

…It is not correct to say that a service which is not entirely satisfactory and by itself might have to be set aside, cannot ever become a good service.…

…Personal service is the ideal, but it may not be possible to achieve. Rule 9 commences with the words “whenever it is practicable’” before providing for personal service.…

…In a civil suit an initiating process is the service of summons upon a defendant and in this case the process server both in his return of service and in his oral evidence in this court stated that he served the 1st defendant…

…Presumption as to service – There is a presumption of service as stated in the process server’s report, and the burden lies on the party questioning it, to show that the return is incorrect.…

…This view coloured an attitude to regulation 25 of the Public Service Regulations, so much so that a probation order came to be seen as tantamount to an acquittal.…

…The reason is that the Court felt it impossible to force the services of an employee on to an employer, when the latter had lost all confidence and trust in the employee.…

…The offence of personating a person employed in the public service is covered by section 105(b) of the Penal Code.…

…It states;- “Where any person who falsely represents himself to be a person employed in the public service, and assumes to do any act or to attend in any place for the purpose of doing an act by virtue of such employment…

…accounting not in themselves sufficient evidence – Evidence Act (cap 80) section 37 The appellants had been separately charged with two offences: fraudulent false accounting and stealing by a person employed in the public service…

…The receipts, however, did not show the specific purposes for which the money was paid and no evidence was led on what the prescribed fee was for the various services.…

…………APPELLANT V REPUBLIC…………………………………..RESPONDENT JUDGMENT The appellant was convicted of stealing by a person employed in the public service contrary to section 280 of the Penal Code and was sentenced to imprisonment for…

…Even though the defendants were served and an Affidavit of service duly filed, they neither filed any responses nor attended court to oppose the application.…

…Even though the defendants were served and an Affidavit of service duly filed, they neither filed any responses nor attended court to oppose the application.…

…Even though the defendants were served and an Affidavit of service duly filed, they neither filed any responses nor attended court to oppose the application.…

…Even though the defendants were served and an Affidavit of service duly filed, they neither filed any responses nor attended court to oppose the application.…

…The case of Clara Nyaruma Oketch versus Akamba Bus Service Nairobi HCCC No 3506/85 where the plaintiff suffered soft tissue injuries and perforation of the left eye described by the doctors as severe and permanent.…

…..........RESPONDENT (Appeal from the High Court at Kisumu, Schofield J) JUDGMENT The appellant was convicted by the Resident Magistrate at Kisumu of the offence of stealing Shs 14,500 by a person employed in the Public Service…

…..........RESPONDENT (Appeal from the High Court at Kisumu, Schofield J) JUDGMENT The appellant was convicted by the Resident Magistrate at Kisumu of the offence of stealing Shs 14,500 by a person employed in the Public Service…

…Dr Shabbir Ahmed is of course, himself physically, beyond the reach, or jurisdiction, of this court, but he has submitted to it through his advocates whose address is his address for service.…

…no doubt that, whether or not the power of attorney is in strict conformity with the Kenya law, it nevertheless constitutes Shakeel a recognised agent under order 3 rule 2 of the Civil Procedure Rules, for the purpose of service…

…This prompted the defendants’ to come to this court by way of certificate of urgency under section 3 and 3A of the Civil Procedure Act, order 44 rule 1, order 21 rule 22 of the Civil Procedure Rules seeking orders that service…

…That application is incompetent as it was filed the same day as the notice of charge and all that remained was service on to the outgoing counsel. 4.…

…Ltd vs New Gatitu Service Station Ltd & Another (1990) eKLR).…

…Ltd vs New Gatitu Service Station Ltd & Another (1990) eKLR).…

…Ltd vs New Gatitu Service Station Ltd & Another (1990) eKLR).…