ROSE WANGUI KARUGA V. KENYA RAILWAYS CORPORATION

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

[1.] This is an appeal from the /ruling of the High Court (Waweru, J) delivered on 18^th October 2013 dismissing the appellant’s application for committal of the respondent’s Managing Director for contempt of court order dated 6^th February, 2012. The appellant has filed this appeal in person and as a pauper pursuant to the order of Nambuye, JA. (as she then was) dated 19^th December, 2014.

[2.] Sometime in 1995, the appellant filed Civil Suit No. 1925 of 1995 in the Principal Magistrate’s Court Nairobi (PMCC No. 1925/1995) challenging the termination of her employment by a letter dated 29^th June 1994.

The reliefs sought included an order that the termination of her services was illegal, null and void and payment of her withheld salary and other benefits. In 1993, the appellant had sued the respondent for damages for defamation in the High Court suit No. 214 of 1993 (HCCC No. 214 /93). On her application, PMCC No. 1925/95 was transferred to the High Court and consolida…