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…asserting that the Applicant exited the company over a decade ago, engaged in competing ventures, misused company assets, and has now resorted to reviving stale claims based on forged documents, while approaching the Court with unclean…

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…The Petitioner submitted that the Applicant does not deserve to enjoy this court’s discretion since they have approached the court with unclean hands in the form of disobeying of court orders.…

…He has therefore come to court with unclean hands. The court cannot exercise discretion in favour of such a litigant who has no respect for the rule of law.…

…and assets owned by him. j) That further, the petitioner has failed to annex all loan facility documents to fully and effectively prove his indebtedness. k) That the petitioner has approached this honourable court with unclean…

…hands, intending to deceive the court, and the petition in its entirety remains unsubstantiated, and as such, the honourable court cannot grant orders to a deceiving party with unclean hands. l) That the petition is only…

…The Applicant has admitted that it  failed to comply with court directives  and is therefore approaching the Court with unclean hands.…

…As such, the appellants had approached the court with unclean hands. Proceedings in the High Court 16. The appeal was canvassed by way of written submissions. 17.…

…I find that the appellant has come to court with unclean hands. This court will not cover the actions of an indolent party to aid in waste of precious judicial time.…

…2014] eKLR and Leo Sila Mutiso v Rose Hellen Wangari Mwangi [1999] 2 EA 231 require a satisfactory explanation for delay, which the Applicants have failed to provide; and that the Applicants have approached the Court with unclean…

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…It was deposed that the applicant has come to this court with unclean hands; that the applicant is barred by Rule 55 of the Auctioneers Act, 1996 which provides that the appeal ought to have been filed within 7 days; that…

…The applicant had therefore come to court with unclean hands, and the application was a nullity for being instituted against a deceased person, whose estate had no administrator and reiterated that the right process ought…

…I do agree with the applicant that the respondent has come to court with unclean hands.…

…It was further stated that the applicants had come to court with unclean hands and were therefore undeserving of the relief sought. 4.…

…validity of the will, which I believe is an afterthought, and in any event, no grounds have been adduced towards challenging the validity of the will. g) That moreover the instant applicant has approached this court with unclean…

…hands having intermeddled in the affairs of the estate to the extent of utilizing the deceased properties without proper authority or consent from the beneficiaries or administrators of the estate. h) The application dated…

…He asserts that the Applicant has brought the matter frivolously, vexatiously, with unclean hands and in abuse of the court process. It is his position that he acted for the Applicant in the purchase of L.R.…

…Thus, it will be perfect to label them as litigants who have come to court with unclean hands. And as it were, equity will not show any love to a person who has acted mala fides in seeking its hand.…

…A party who approaches a court of equity with unclean hands should not expect equity to be done to him.…

…The Respondent asserts that the Applicant has approached this Court with unclean hands, having failed to notify all its creditors, and only sought to prosecute the insolvency petition and present Application after judgment…

…He alleged the appellant has come to court with unclean hands, having repeatedly used procedural maneuvers to delay the suit, and submitted the balance of convenience favors allowing the trial to proceed. 5.…

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…It submitted that the absence of a properly endorsed and filed amended pleading renders the amendment invalid and incapable of forming a lawful basis for judgment. 23.The defendant denied being guilty of laches or unclean…

…Counsel urged that the Applicant has approached the Court with unclean hands given that he was duly served with the Bill of Costs physically and through his WhatsApp and as such, he cannot claim that he was not served.…

…Counsel urged that the Respondent has approached this Court with unclean hands and is guilty of material non-disclosure thus, he is undeserving of the orders sought.…

…suppressed the existence of formal security, regulatory and public health compliance concerns communicated by competent authorities which formed the basis of the impugned administrative action, thereby approaching the court with unclean…

…hands and disentitling himself from equitable and discretionary constitutional relief. f) The petition therefore offends the necessary constitutional principles set out in Mukisa Biscuit Manufacturing Co Ltd vs West End…