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GEOFFREY NDUNGU THEURI V. LAW SOCIETY OF KENYA

(1988) JELR 104870 (CA)

Court of Appeal  •  Civil Appeal 5 of 1985  •  8 Jul 1988  •  Kenya

Coram
Richard Otieno Kwach, Joseph Raymond Otieno Masime, Fred Kwasi Apaloo

Judgement

JUDGMNET

(Appeal from a ruling and orders of the High Court at Nairobi, Porter J)

July 8, 1988, Apaloo JA delivered the following Judgment.

Nobody who read the proceedings in this case, can help feeling that the appellant is a man who has the courage of his convictions. He cannot be otherwise if he took on the Law Society itself. Some may also say of him, perhaps not unkindly, that he is a tenacious litigant.

The appellant appears to have had some sort of education which he did not qualify him to be called a university graduate. He was minded to study law and obtain legal qualification to enable him practice as an advocate. So on the September 5, 1983 he applied to and was duly “articled” to a firm of advocates by name Gautama and Kibuchi for 3 years. This fact came to the knowledge of Law Society (which I shall hereafter call the Society). It felt the appellant was not qualified to serve as an articled clerk and so informed the firm. On hearing this, the firm wrote to the appellant on O…

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