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REPUBLIC OF KENYA
IN THE HIGH COURT AT NAIROBI JUDICIAL REVIEW DIVISION
PETITION OR APPLICATION NO [reference]
REPUBLIC v [RESPONDENT AUTHORITY] EX PARTE [APPLICANTS]
INTERESTED PARTIES [as admitted in the actual file]
AFFIDAVIT
1. I am [authorised officer] of [professional body], an interested party admitted by order dated [date]. I identify the body’s mandate and my authority at I1.
2. The body supports lawful peaceful assembly and enforcement of constitutional limits on public power. Its position concerns the challenged directive rather than a request to immunise every form of protest conduct.
3. I2 contains the body’s contemporaneous observations and correspondence about the directive. I distinguish its institutional records from facts directly witnessed by me.
4. The injury allegation is supported only by the specific admissible records identified at I3. I do not purport to give a medical opinion or attribute personal conduct to an officer without evidence.
5. The body asks the Court to determine the directive’s legality under the constitutional framework. Admission as an interested party does not authorise introduction of an entirely new damages or criminal prosecution claim.
SWORN by [deponent] at [place] on [date]. Signature [ ]. BEFORE ME [Commissioner for Oaths]. This sample has not been sworn.
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Use and evidence notes
Admission as an interested party and permission for the affidavit must be supported by the actual court directions. Identify authority and institutional records. Do not enlarge the litigation into a new claim. Separate witnessed facts, authenticated documents and legal argument. Complete a valid jurat and redact irrelevant private and medical information.
Exhibit schedule: [label]; [document date]; [description]; [existing record pages or basis of admission]. Do not append invented or missing records.
Source facts and limits of the decision
Rights organisations challenged a police directive issued during medical workers’ industrial action. They relied on an earlier Nairobi picket at which a union officer was injured and sought review relief concerning peaceful assembly. The respondent did not answer the application; an interested professional body supported it.
The High Court granted prohibition, certiorari, declarations on personal responsibility and costs payable personally by the respondent. It declined the other requested relief. It did not award the requested personal compensation, supervisory investigation order or apology, and did not convict anyone of a criminal offence.
Constitution Articles 24, 36, 37, 41 and 47; Fair Administrative Action Act; Law Reform Act and Civil Procedure Rules Order 53 for the source route; National Police Service Act sections 10 and 66. A current applicant must verify leave, time, service and the competent respondent, and distinguish public law relief from a criminal conviction.
Read the original reported decision: [2024] KEHC 16607 (KLR) — 31 December 2024
The original decision may identify participants. The specimen replaces their identifying details. The full judgment PDF hosted by Katiba Institute, a participating legal organisation, was downloaded and checked against the reasons and final orders.
Related law and procedural rules
Constitution of Kenya · Fair Administrative Action Act · National Police Service Act · Civil Procedure Rules
Civil Procedure Rules — verify the applicable judicial review route
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