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ELCAllowedNot stated in the extract· [2019] KEELC 2255 (KLR)
Kariobangi Sewage Farmers Self Help Group v Nairobi City Council & 2 others [2019] KEELC 2255 (KLR)
Environment and Land Court (as inferred from the coram; the judgment does not name the court)
4 July 2019
229 words in judgment
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#A Kenyan court allowed county land records to be produced as evidence because the objecting party could not show any actual prejudice.
What this practically means
#Executive summary
#This short ruling by L. Komingoi, Judge, was delivered in Nairobi on 4th July 2019 in a suit filed in 1999. On 18th December 2018, Mrs. Gulenywa for the plaintiff had sought summons to be issued to the Chief Officer Lands, Nairobi City County, requiring him to attend court and produce records. Counsel for the 1st and 3rd defendants indicated no objection at that stage, and the summons were issued. The Chief Officer attended court with records pertaining to the current status of the suit property, but Mr. Wafula for the 3rd defendant raised an objection to the production of the documents. The court noted that given the age of the suit, it needed to be informed of the current status of the suit property before making final orders. Holding that it was in the interest of justice to allow the witness to produce the documents, and that the 3rd defendant's counsel had not explained how production would prejudice his client, the judge dismissed the objection and allowed the records to be produced. No costs order was made. The ruling is interlocutory in nature and disposes only of the objection to production of evidence.
Key legal issues
#01
Whether the court should receive the current-status records of the suit property before making final orders
Holding
The court allowed the Chief Officer Lands to produce the records, holding it was in the interest of justice and that no prejudice was demonstrated.
Reasoning
The suit was filed in 1999 and much had happened since; the court needed to know the current status of the suit property before making final orders. The 3rd defendant objected to production but his counsel did not explain how production would prejudice his client, so the objection lacked merit and was dismissed.
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Legal principles established
#- A party objecting to production of documents must demonstrate the prejudice it would suffer
Court orders
#- 1.The objection to the production of the documents by the Chief Officer Lands, Nairobi City County is dismissed
- 2.The witness is allowed to produce the records pertaining to the current status of the suit property
- Jurisdiction invoked
- Inherent powers of the court to summon a witness to produce records; no specific constitutional or statutory provision cited
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Caselaw, "Kariobangi Sewage Farmers Self Help Group v Nairobi City Council & 2 others [2019] KEELC 2255 (KLR)", Case Analysis (2019). Not stated in the extract. Source: https://new.kenyalaw.org/akn/ke/judgment/keelc/2019/2255/eng@2019-07-04
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