RULING
I. INTRODUCTION
[1] This Ruling emanates from two Notices of Preliminary Objection: one filed by the 5th and 6th respondents, and the other by the 1st and 2nd respondents, in objection to the appellants’ Petition of Appeal filed on 2nd December, 2013.
[2] The appellants herein filed a petition in the Supreme Court, on 2nd December, 2013 seeking to appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal.
[3] The ruling of the Court of Appeal which is the subject of this petition emanated from an application for an order that the Notice of Appeal dated 16th December, 2011, filed on the same day, be struck out or be marked as withdrawn. The appellants herein had filed the Notice of Appeal intending to appeal against a Ruling of the High Court dated 16th December, 2011 (Ang’awa, J) that had allowed some parties joined in the suit as plaintiffs to be represented by the firm of M/s Kinyanjui and Co. Advocates, instead of M/s O.P. Ngoge and Associates who were representing all the plaintiffs j…