Samuel Kipleting Rono v Agricultural Finance Corporation [2002] KECA 243 (KLR)
The bottom line
#The Court of Appeal rejected an early challenge to a request to pause enforcement of a High Court order, sending it to full hearing.
What this practically means
#Executive summary
#Questions the Court framed
#The issues the Court set itself to decide, in its own words.
- 1.Whether the preliminary objection raised against the application for stay of execution should be upheld or rejected
- 2.Whether, and on what case-management terms, the application should proceed to hearing, including directions on further and supplementary affidavits
Key legal issues
#Whether the preliminary objection to the application for stay of execution should be upheld
The preliminary objection was rejected with costs, subject to the filing of the requisition notice of change, and the application was directed to proceed.
The ruling gives no detailed reasons: it records only that, for the reasons advanced by Mr. Olunga (whose party the ruling does not identify) and subject to the filing of the requisition notice of change, the preliminary objection was rejected with costs and the application allowed to proceed. This is an interlocutory, discretionary case-management decision; it neither determines the stay application nor articulates a principle of general application, and is therefore not ratio decidendi.
Case-management directions for the hearing of the main application
By consent both parties may file further affidavits; leave was granted to file supplementary affidavits within 14 days; the main application was to be set down for hearing, with costs in the application.
The court closed with consent-based directions: both parties may file further affidavits, leave to file supplementary affidavits within fourteen days, and the main application to be set down for hearing, with costs in the application. These are procedural directions disposing of the interlocutory stage only; the substantive question whether execution of the Eldoret High Court order should be stayed remained pending and undetermined.
Legal principles established
#- A preliminary objection against an application for stay of execution may be rejected with costs, whereupon the application proceeds to an inter partes hearing; rejection of the objection does not itself determine the application.
Court orders
#- 1.The preliminary objection is rejected with costs, subject to the filing of the requisition notice of change
- 2.The application to proceed
- 3.By consent both parties may file further affidavits
- 4.Leave granted to file supplementary affidavits within 14 days
- 5.Main application to be set down for hearing
- 6.Costs in the application
The bench
#One judgment of the whole court — no separate or dissenting opinions.
Wrote the judgment
- On appeal from
- High Court of Kenya at Eldoret
- H.C.C.C. No. 14 of 2002
- Jurisdiction invoked
- Not stated in the ruling; no constitutional or statutory provision is cited. The matter comes before the Court of Appeal as a civil application (UR. 127/02) for stay of execution of a High Court order pending appeal.
Relief refused
#The preliminary objection seeking to terminate the stay application at the threshold
Rejected with costs for the reasons advanced by Mr. Olunga and subject to the filing of the requisition notice of change; the application was directed to proceed to hearing rather than being struck out
Costs
The preliminary objection was rejected with costs (costs of the objection to the applicant); in the main application, 'Costs in the application' - costs of the application left over/reserved to its hearing.
Quotable passages
#Verbatim from the judgment, each located to the page it appears on in the official PDF — so these can be cited and checked directly.
For the reasons advanced by Mr. Olunga and subject to the filing of the requisition notice of change the preliminary objection is rejected with costs. The application to proceed.
By consent both parties may file further affidavits. Leave granted to file supplementary affidavits within 14 days. Main application to be set down for hearing. Costs in the application.
Key timeline
#Practical implications
#Frequently asked questions
#Cite this brief
#Cite this brief
Caselaw, "Samuel Kipleting Rono v Agricultural Finance Corporation [2002] KECA 243 (KLR)", Case Analysis (2002). Civil Application No. NAI. 253 of 2002 (UR. 127/02). Source: https://new.kenyalaw.org/akn/ke/judgment/keca/2002/243/eng@2002-10-29
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