Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Expenses of assessors, witnesses, etc.
Subject to any rules which may be made by the Minister, any court may order payment on the part of the Government of the reasonabl…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Forms
Forms which the High Court may from time to time approve, with such variations as the circumstances of each case may require, may…
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Right to copies of proceedings
If a person affected by a judgment or order passed in proceedings under this Code desires to have a copy of the judgment or order…
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Shorthand notes of proceedings
Shorthand notes may be taken of the proceedings at the trial of a person before the High Court or a subordinate court, and a trans…
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Persons before whom affidavits may be sworn
Affidavits and affirmations to be used before the High Court may be sworn and affirmed before a judge of the High Court, a magistr…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Procedure on forfeiture of goods
(1) Where, by or under any written law (other than section 29 of the Penal Code), any goods or things may be (but are not obliged…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Power to issue directions of the nature of habeas corpus
(1) The High Court may whenever it thinks fit direct— (a) that any person within the limits of Kenya be brought up before the cour…
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Powers of Director of Public Prosecutions as to inquiries into cause of death
(1) The Director of Public Prosecutions may at any time direct a magistrate to hold an inquiry, in accordance with section 387, in…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Inquiry by magistrate into cause of death
(1) When a person dies while in the custody of the police, or of a prison officer,or in a prison, the nearest magistrate empowered…
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Police to inquire and report on suicide, etc.
(1) The officer in charge of a police station, or any other officer specially empowered by the Minister in that behalf, on receivi…
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Magistrates empowered to hold inquests
A magistrate empowered to hold a subordinate court of the first, or second class, and a magistrate specially empowered in that beh…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Statements irregularly taken under section 246
(1) If a court before whom a statement of a person recorded or purporting to be recorded under section 246 of this Code is tendere…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Distress not illegal for defect in proceedings
No distress made under this Code shall be deemed unlawful, nor shall any person making it be deemed a trespasser, on account of a…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Finding or sentence when reversible by reason of error or omission incharge or other proceedings
Subject to the provisions hereinbefore contained, no finding, sentence or order passed by a court of competent jurisdiction shall…
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Proceedings in wrong place
No finding, sentence or order of a criminal court shall be set aside merely on the ground that the inquiry, trial or other proceed…
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Appeal to the Court of Appeal on High Court's original jurisdiction
In proceedings under section 203 or 296 (2) of the Penal Code, the Prevention of Terrorism Act, the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropi…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Appeals from High Court to Court of Appeal
(1) A person convicted on a trial held by the High Court and sentenced to death, or to imprisonment for a term exceeding twelve mo…
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High Court order to be certified to lower court
When a case is revised by the High Court it shall certify its decision or order to the court by which the sentence or order so rev…
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Number of judges in revision
All proceedings before the High Court in the exercise of its revisional jurisdiction may be heard and any judgment or order thereo…
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Discretion of court as to hearing parties
No party has a right to be heard either personally or by an advocate before the High Court when exercising its powers of revision:…
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Powers of High Court on revision
(1) In the case of a proceeding in a subordinate court the record of which has been called for or which has been reported for orde…
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Subordinate court may call for records of inferior court
(1) A subordinate court of the first class may call for and examine the recordof any criminal proceedings of a subordinate court o…
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Power of High Court to call for records
The High Court may call for and examine the record of any criminal proceedings before any subordinate court for the purpose of sat…
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Second appeals
(1) A party to an appeal from a subordinate court may, subject to subsection (8), appeal against a decision of the High Court in i…
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