REPUBLIC v SENIOR EXECUTIVE OFFICER THE CHIEF MAGISTRATE’S COURT AT KAKAMEGA EX PARTE NATHAN KUTOTO [2007] KEHC 563 (KLR) | Judicial Review | Esheria

REPUBLIC v SENIOR EXECUTIVE OFFICER THE CHIEF MAGISTRATE’S COURT AT KAKAMEGA EX PARTE NATHAN KUTOTO [2007] KEHC 563 (KLR)

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REPUBLIC OF KENYA

HIGH COURT OF KENYA AT KAKAMEGA

MISC CIV APPL 37 OF 2003

IN THE MATTER OF APPLICATION FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW ORDERS OF

I. CERTIORARI

II.PROHIBITION

IN RELATION TO THE JUDGEMENTS RULINGS AND ORDERS ARISING IN THE KAKAMEGA CHIEF MAGISTRATE’S COURT CIVIL SUIT NO. 485/2000 AS OF 22/07/2002 APPERTAINING TO THE LAWFUL OWNERSHIP OF PLOTS NO. 2 AND 18 OF IKOLI MARKET OF KAKAMEGA COUNTY COUNCIL

REPUBLIC

EX PARTE NATHAN KUTOTO::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: PPLICANT/RESPONDENT

=VERSUS=

SENIOR EXECUTIVE OFFICER

THE CHIEF MAGISTRATE’SCOURT AT KAKAMEGA :::::::::::::::::::: RESPONDENT

AND

SAMSON CHAPIA :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::INTERESTED PARTY/APPLICANT

RULING

On 7. 5.2007, Mr. Khalwale, the learned counsel for Samson Chapia, the Interested party/Applicant, urged the court to grant the orders prayed for in the Notice of Motion dated 1st November, 2004 including an order for reconstruction of the court file.

The prayer for reconstruction of the court file cannot be considered simultaneously with an order for striking out of Notice of Motion or the vacation of the order for leave.  Although the court has power to order reconstruction of the court file and to decline to give the other orders sought in the application, there must be a case made out for reconstruction.  But in the affidavit in support of the application, there is not a whimper about efforts to have the court file traced or located.  There is not a scintilla of evidence to show that any efforts have ever been made to trace the court file.  As there is no material before the court to support the prayer for reconstruction of the file, I am disinclined to grant the application which seems to have focused only on the prayer for striking out of the Motion and vacation of the leave to apply for the orders of certiorari and prohibition.  I dismiss the application.

Dated at Kakamega this 8th  day of November, 2007.

G. B. M. KARIUKI

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