JUDGMENT
A. Introduction
[1] This is an appeal from the judgment of the Court of Appeal dismissing the appellants’ appeal with costs, and upholding the High Court decision in Nairobi HCCC No. 1548 of 2002. The High Court had struck out the appellants’ suit on the ground that the dispute between the parties was res judicata.
B. The Appeal
[2] The substratum of the appellants’ prolific memorandum of appeal is that both the two courts below erred in failing to find that the appellant’s constitutional rights were abrogated. Their contentions are that the two courts below had failed to find that the consent order in an earlier suit (to which the 1st appellant had been enjoined as one of the plaintiffs without her knowledge) was recorded without the appellants’ authority; that the appellants’ erstwhile advocates subverted Articles 12, 13, 14 and 15 of the United Nations Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, by deliberately and fraudulently concealing from the trial court the fact that the ch…