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Author Ouma, Steve, author

Title A commentary on the Civil Procedure Act Cap 21 / Steve Ouma
Edition Second edition
Published Nairobi, Kenya ; Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania ; Kampala, Uganda : LawAfrica, 2013
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (584 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; DEDICATION; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; TABLE OF CASES; INTRODUCTION; 1.0 INTRODUCTION; 1.1 ADVERSARIAL PROCEDURE; 1.1.1 BILATERALITY; 1.1.2 PARTY PROSECUTION; 1.1.3 PARTY PRESENTATION; 1.1.4 LAWYERS; 1.1.5 THE ROLE OF THE COURT; 1.1.6 ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF ADVERSARIAL SYSTEM; 1.2 THE CONTINENTAL SYSTEM; 1.2.1 LAWYERS; 1.2.2 JUDGES; 1.2.3 ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE CONTINENTAL SYSTEM; 2.0 CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS; 2.1 CIVIL PROCEDURE; 2.2 THE CIVIL PROCEDURE ACT CAP. 21
2.3 RECOGNIZED AGENTS AND ADVOCATES2.4 APPRAISAL; 3.0 SOURCES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE LAW; 3.1 THE CONSTITUTION OF KENYA 2010; 3.2 THE CIVIL PROCEDURE ACT CAP 21; 3.3 THE CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES; 4.0 LACUNAE IN THE ACT AND RULES; 5.0 DOCTRINES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE; 5.1 JUSTICIABILITY; 5.2 JURISDICTION; 5.2.1 THE SUPREME COURT; 5.2.2 THE COURT OF APPEAL; 5.2.3 THE HIGH COURT; 5.2.4 JURISDICTIONAL AUTHORITY; 5.2.5 INHERENT JURISDICTION; 5.2.5.1 To Meet the Ends of Justice; 5.2.5.2 To Prevent the Abuse of the Process of the Court; 5.2.5.3 Limitations to the Exercise of Inherent Powers
5.3 AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM5.4 CAUSE OF ACTION; 6.0 TERMINOLOGY; 6.1 THE DEMAND LETTER; 6.2 PLEADINGS; 6.3 SERVICE OF PROCESS; 6.4 TRIAL; 6.5 PARTIES; 6.6 JUDGMENT; 6.7 APPEAL; 6.8 AN APPELLATE COURT; 7.0 POST-JUDGMENT REMEDIES; 7. 1 MONETARY DAMAGES; 7.2 EQUITABLE RELIEF; 7.3 DECLARATORY JUDGMENT; THE CIVIL PROCEDURE ACT (CHAPTER 21); PART I -- PRELIMINARY; PART II -- SUITS IN GENERAL; Jurisdiction of Courts; Place of Suing; Judgment and Decree; Interest; Costs; PART III -- EXECUTION; General; Procedure in Execution; Attachment; Sale; Distribution of Assets; Resistance to Execution
PART IV -- INCIDENTAL PROCEEDINGSCommissions; PART V -- SUITS IN PARTICULAR CASES; Suits by Aliens and by or against Foreign Rulers; Interpleader; PART VI -- SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS; Arbitration; Special Case; Suits Relating to Public Matters; PART VII -- SUPPLEMENTAL PROCEEDINGS; PART VIII -- APPEALS TO THE HIGH COURT AND COURT OF APPEAL; Appeals from Original Decrees; Appeals from Appellate Decrees of a Subordinate Court; Appeals from Appellate Decrees of the High Court; Appeals from Orders; General Provisions Relating to Appeals; PART IX -- REVIEW; PART X -- RULES; PART XI -MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
THE CIVIL PROCEDURE ACTTHE CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES, 2010; ORDER 1 -- PARTIES TO SUITS; Rule 1. Who may be joined as plaintiffs; Rule 2. Power of court to order separate trial; Rule 3. Who may be joined as defendants; Rule 4. Court may give judgment for or against one or more of joint parties; Rule 5. Defendant need not be interested in all relief claimed; Rule 6. Joinder of parties liable on same contract; Rule 7. When plaintiff in doubt from whom redress is to be sought; Rule 8. One person may sue or defend on behalf of all in the same interest; Rule 9. Mis-joinder and Non-joinder
Notes Includes index
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Subject Civil procedure -- Kenya
LAW -- Civil Procedure.
LAW -- Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
Civil procedure
Kenya
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789966031877
9966031871