MANCHESTER OUTFITTERS (SUITING DIVISION) LIMITED (NOW KNOWN AS KING WOOLLEN MILLS LIMITED) & GALOT INDUSTRIES LIMITED V. STANDARD CHARTERED FINANCIAL SERVICES LIMITED, A.D. GREGORY & C.D. CAHILL

REPUBLIC OF KENYA

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF KENYA AT NAIROBI

(Coram: Ojwang, SCJ)

PETITION NO. 6 OF 2016

–BETWEEN–

1. MANCHESTER OUTFITTERS

(SUITING DIVISION) LIMITED (Now known as KING WOOLLEN MILLS LIMITED)

2. GALOT INDUSTRIES LIMITED...........................................................PETITIONERS

–AND–

1. STANDARD CHARTERED FINANCIAL SERVICES LIMITED

2. A.D. GREGORY

3. C.D. CAHILL .................................................................................RESPONDENTS

(Appeal from the Ruling of the Court of Appeal at Nairobi in Civil Application No. 224 of 2006, dated 8 April 2016)

RULING

A. INTRODUCTION

[1] This is an application by way of Notice of Motion, dated 28 September 2016. The applicant is a firm of Advocates, namely Gikera and Vadgama Advocates, which is seeking a determination of the status of representation by counsel in a cause pending in Court. The proceedings at this stage, therefore, are concerned only with the preliminary question of representation, rather than with the …