WAMBUGU, MOTENDE & CO. ADVOCATES V. KAJULU HOLDINGS LIMITED, LALJI KARSAN RABADOA, ARVIN JADVA RABADIA & CHANDRAKANT LALJI RABADIA

RULING

The genesis of this application is a disagreement between Wambugu, Motende and Co. Advocates, hereinafter referred to as the applicant, and Kajulu Holdings Ltd, the 1^st respondent herein, who was at one time a client of the applicant. In the course of the applicant representing the 1^st respondent in some conveyancing transaction, the applicant and the 1^st respondent disagreed.

Consequently, the applicant filed a bill of costs for taxation before the Deputy Registrar of the High Court. The respondents objected to that bill, and the Deputy Registrar upheld the objection, prompting the applicants to file a reference of that decision under paragraph II of the Advocates Remuneration Order. That reference was dismissed by Havelock J. in a ruling made on the 24^th April 2014. The applicant claims that it became aware of that ruling on the 21^st August 2014 when the respondents served them with a bill of costs and a notice to tax the same.

As time for filing of a notice of appeal has since …