- Order 41, rule 3 of Civil Procedure Rules : Duties
Every receiver so appointed shall—
(a) furnish such security (if any) as the court thinks fit, duly to account for what he shall receive in respect of the property;
(b) submit his accounts at such periods and in such form as the court directs;
(c) pay the amount due from him as the court...
- Order 41, rule 4 of Civil Procedure Rules : Enforcement of receiver’s duties
Where a receiver—
(a) fails to submit his accounts at such periods and in such form as the court directs; or
(b) fails to pay the amount due from him as the court directs; or (c) occasions loss to the property by his wilful default or gross negligence,
the court may direct his property to...
- Order 41, rule 5 of Civil Procedure Rules : Removal
The court may either on its own motion or on application by any interested party, remove a receiver appointed pursuant to this order on such terms as it thinks fit.
- Order 42, rule 1 of Civil Procedure Rules : Form of appeal
(1) Every appeal to the High Court shall be in the form of a memorandum of appeal signed in the same manner as a pleading.
(2) The memorandum of appeal shall set forth concisely and under distinct heads the grounds of objection to the decree or order appealed against, without any argument or...
- Order 42, rule 2 of Civil Procedure Rules : Filing of decree or order
Where no certified copy of the decree or order appealed against is filed with the memorandum of appeal, the appellant shall file such certified copy as soon as possible and in any event within such time as the court may order, and the court need not consider whether to reject the appeal summarily...
- Order 42, rule 3 of Civil Procedure Rules : Amendment of memorandum of appeal
(1) The appellant may amend his memorandum of appeal without leave at any time before the court gives directions under rule 13.
(2) After the time limited by subrule (1) the court may, on application, permit the appellant to amend his memorandum of appeal.
- Order 42, rule 4 of Civil Procedure Rules : Grounds which may be taken in appeal
The appellant shall not, except with leave of the court, urge or be heard in support of any ground of objection not set forth in the memorandum of appeal; but the High Court in deciding the appeal shall not be confined to the grounds of objection set forth in the memorandum of appeal or taken by...
- Order 42, rule 5 of Civil Procedure Rules : One of several plaintiffs or defendants may obtain reversal of whole decree where it proceeds on ground common to all
Where there is more than one plaintiffs or defendants than one in a suit, and the decree appealed from proceeds on any ground common to all the plaintiffs or to all the defendants, any one of the plaintiffs or of the defendants may appeal from the whole decree, and thereupon the High Court may...
- Order 42, rule 6 of Civil Procedure Rules : Stay in case of appeal
(1) No appeal or second appeal shall operate as a stay of execution or proceedings under a decree or order appealed from except in so far as the court appealed from may order but, the court appealed from may for sufficient cause order stay of execution of such decree or order, and whether the...
- Order 42, rule 7 of Civil Procedure Rules : Security in case of order for execution of decree appealed from
(1) Where an order is made for the execution of a decree from which an appeal is pending, the court which passed the decree or the court to which an appeal is pending in terms of rule 6 shall, on sufficient cause being shown by the appellant, require security to be taken for the restitution of any...
- Order 42, rule 8 of Civil Procedure Rules : No security to be required from the Government
No such security as is mentioned in rules 6 and 7 shall be required from the Government or where the Government has undertaken the defence of the suit or from any public officer sued in respect of an act alleged to be done by him in his official capacity.
- Order 42, rule 9 of Civil Procedure Rules : Exercise of powers in appeal from order made in execution of decree
The powers conferred by rules 6 and 7 shall be exercisable where an appeal may be or has been preferred not from the decree but from an order made in execution of such decree.
- Order 42, rule 10 of Civil Procedure Rules : Register and filing of appeals
(1) A register of appeals, to be called the register of appeals, shall be kept at every registry at which appeals are filed, and the particulars of every appeal shall be entered in such register and all appeals shall be numbered in each year according to the order in which the appeals are filed....
- Order 42, rule 11 of Civil Procedure Rules : Directions under section 79B
Upon filing of the appeal the appellant shall within thirty days, cause the matter to be listed before a judge for directions under section 79B of the Act.
- Order 42, rule 12 of Civil Procedure Rules : Service of memorandum
After the refusal of a judge to reject the appeal under section 79B of the Act, the registrar shall notify the appellant who shall serve the memorandum of appeal on every respondent within seven days of receipt of the notice from the registrar.
- Order 42, rule 13 of Civil Procedure Rules : Directions before hearing
(1) On notice to the parties delivered not less than twenty-one days after the date of service of the memorandum of appeal the appellant shall cause the appeal to be listed for the giving of directions by a judge in chambers.
(2) Any objection to the jurisdiction of the appellate court shall be...
- Order 42, rule 14 of Civil Procedure Rules : Security for costs
(1) At any time after the memorandum of appeal has been served the court, in its discretion, may order the appellant to give security for the whole or any part of the costs of such appeal.
(2) If the appellant is not ordinarily resident in Kenya and has no sufficient property in Kenya (other than...
- Order 42, rule 15 of Civil Procedure Rules : Notice to be given where decree appealed from
(1) When a memorandum of appeal is lodged the court to which such appeal is preferred shall send notice of the appeal to the court from whose decree the appeal is preferred.
(2) The court receiving such notice shall send with all practicable despatch all material papers in the suit, or such papers...
- Order 42, rule 16 of Civil Procedure Rules : Filing declaration and written submissions
(1) Any party to an appeal who does not intend to appear in person or by advocate at the hearing of the appeal may file a declaration in writing to that effect and lodge written submissions of the arguments in support of or in opposition to the appeal, as the case may be and shall, within seven days...
- Order 42, rule 17 of Civil Procedure Rules : Service of hearing notice
Notice of the day fixed for hearing of the appeal shall be served on the respondent or on his advocate in the manner provided for under Order 5.
- Order 42, rule 18 of Civil Procedure Rules : Contents of notice
The notice to the respondent shall declare that, if he does not appear in the court to which such appeal is preferred on the day so fixed, the appeal may be heard ex parte.
- Order 42, rule 19 of Civil Procedure Rules : Right to begin
(1) On the day fixed, or on any other day to which the hearing may be adjourned, the appellant shall be heard in support of the appeal.
(2) The court shall then, if it does not dismiss the appeal at once, hear the respondent against the appeal, and in such case the appellant shall be entitled to...
- Order 42, rule 20 of Civil Procedure Rules : Dismissal of appeal for appellant’s default
(1) Where on the day fixed, or on any other day to which the hearing may be adjourned, the appellant does not appear when the appeal is called on for hearing, and has not filed a declaration under rule 16, the court may make an order that the appeal be dismissed.
(2) Where the appellant appears,...
- Order 42, rule 21 of Civil Procedure Rules : Re-admission of appeal dismissed for default
Where an appeal is dismissed under rule 20, the appellant may apply to the court to which such appeal is preferred for the re-admission of the appeal; and, where it is proved that he was prevented by any sufficient cause from appearing when the appeal was called on for hearing, the court shall...
- Order 42, rule 22 of Civil Procedure Rules : Power to adjourn hearing and direct interested persons to be made respondents
Where it appears to the court at the hearing that any person who was a party to the suit in the court from whose decree the appeal is preferred, but who has not been made a party to the appeal, is interested in the result of the appeal, the court may adjourn the hearing to a future day to be fixed...
- Order 42, rule 23 of Civil Procedure Rules : Re-hearing on application of respondent against whom ex parte decree made
Where an appeal is heard ex parte and judgment is pronounced against the respondent, he may apply to the court to which the appeal is preferred to re-hear the appeal; and if he satisfies the court that the notice was not duly served or that he was prevented by sufficient cause from appearing when...
- Order 42, rule 24 of Civil Procedure Rules : Remand of cases
Where the court from whose decree an appeal is preferred has disposed of the suit upon a preliminary point, and the decree is reversed on appeal, the court to which the appeal is preferred may, if it deems fit, by order remand the case, and may further direct what issue or issues shall be tried in...
- Order 42, rule 25 of Civil Procedure Rules : Where evidence on record sufficient appellate court may determine case finally
Where the evidence upon the record is sufficient to enable the court to which the appeal is preferred to pronounce judgment, the court to which the appeal is preferred may, after resettling the issues, if necessary, finally determine the suit, notwithstanding that the judgment of the court from...
- Order 42, rule 26 of Civil Procedure Rules : Power to order new trial
If upon the hearing of an appeal it shall appear to the court to which the appeal is preferred that a new trial ought to be had, it shall be lawful for the said court, if it shall think fit, to order that the judgment and decree shall be set aside, and that a new trial shall be had.
- Order 42, rule 27 of Civil Procedure Rules : Production of additional evidence in appellate court
(1) The parties to an appeal shall not be entitled to produce additional evidence, whether oral or documentary, in the court to which the appeal is preferred; but if—
(a) the court from whose decree the appeal is preferred has refused to admit evidence which ought to have been admitted; or...