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Nangumya v Tumwine & Another (CIVIL APPEAL NO. 93 OF 2018) [2020] UGHCCD 135 (10 June 2020)
The High Court dismissed an appeal against disciplinary sanctions on an advocate who failed to disclose and remit client funds, upholding suspension, costs, interest, and remittance orders.
Odong v TampEngineering Consultants Limited and 2 Others (Miscellaneous Application 129 of 2023) [2020] UGCommC 166 (20 February 2020)
The High Court ordered return of the applicant’s title deed after the underlying decree was set aside, finding no lawful basis to retain it as security.
Ismail Bros v Bogha (Civ. App. No. 18/1935.) [1936] EACA 15 (1 January 1936)
The agreement between the parties created a tenancy at will, not an equitable interest in the land for the respondent. Under such a tenancy, the vendors were entitled to terminate the agreement without notice upon default in payment of interest for three consecutive months, and no formal demand for payment was required. The respondent's caveat was therefore improperly lodged and should be removed. Regarding the costs awarded in the previous appeal, the lien claimed by the respondent's advocates could only be enforced by the advocates themselves and did not extend beyond the rights of the clie…
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In Re: of the Resident Magistrate's Court (Nairobi) Civil Case No. 217 of 1929 (John and Edward . C. S. Lezar); In Re:R of a Reference made by the Registrar, Supreme Court, Nairobi, therein in connexion with the payment out of the sum of Sh. 257/55, for a Ruling by His Majesty's Supreme Court thereon. (C.C. 209/1929.) [1929] EACA 66 (1 January 1929)
The court held that an advocate has a common law lien over proceeds of a judgment recovered for a client, and Mr. Birdsey was entitled to the funds in court.
