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SPIRE BANK LIMITED
V.
LAND REGISTRAR & 2 OTHERS

(2019) JELR 95369 (CA)

Court of Appeal 11 Jul 2019 Kenya
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- Spire Bank Ltd. (appellant) initiated judicial review proceedings to quash and remove restrictions registered against its property (Mombasa/Block XVII/797) following its exercise of power of sale as chargee after loan default by responden

Case Details

Suit Number:Civil Appeal 52 of 2018
Judges:Alnashir Ramazanali Magan Visram, Martha Karambu Koome, Agnes Kalekye Murgor
Location:Mombasa
Other Citations:Spire Bank Limited v. Land Registrar & 2 others [2019] eKLR

JUDGEMENT OF THE COURT

This appeal arises from the ruling of the Environment and Land Court (Yano, J.) which struck out the appellant’s Notice of Motion dated 11th May 2017 that sought Judicial Review orders where it had been alleged that the appellant had not complied with the provisions of order 4 rule 1 (4) of the Civil Procedure rules by failing to file a resolution and or authority allowing Josephine Musembi to swear the verifying affidavit in support of the Judicial Review Petition filed in terms of order 53 rule 1 (2) of the Civil Procedure rules.

As a brief background, sometime in 2003, the appellant then operating under the name of Southern Credit Corporation Limited, advanced certain loan facilities to the 2nd respondent, his partners trading as Jingo Tours and Safaris. The 2nd respondent’s property namely Mombasa/Block XVII/797 (the charged property) was provided as security for the loan. Jingo Tours and Safaries defaulted in the loan repayments, and the appellant exercised …

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