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Court of AppealAllowedCivil Application 353 of 2005· [2006] KECA 278 (KLR)

Kenya Tea Development Agency Ltd v Benson Ondimu Masese T/A B.O Masese & Company Advocates

Court of Appeal of Kenya
30 March 2006
ROR.S.C Omolo
312 words in judgment
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The bottom line

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Kenya's Court of Appeal extended appeal deadlines because the party never received notice that judgment had been delivered.

What this practically means

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Executive summary

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This is a short unopposed ruling by the Court of Appeal at Kisumu (Omolo, JA) on an application by Kenya Tea Development Agency Ltd for extension of time to validate a notice of appeal and to file and serve a record of appeal out of time, in an intended appeal against a judgment of the High Court at Kisumu (Tanui, J) dated 28 October 2005 in H.C.C.C No. 75 of 2004. The court recorded that the motion was in substance unopposed and that the parties agreed the applicant had not been served with notice of the delivery of judgment, which satisfactorily explained the delay. The only contested point was costs. The court allowed the notice of motion dated and lodged on 16 December 2005, deemed the notice of appeal dated 6 December 2005 and lodged on 8 December 2005 to have been lodged in time, directed that the record of appeal be lodged within twenty-one days and served on the respondent within seven days of lodgment, and ordered that the costs of the motion be costs in the intended appeal. The decision is a routine exercise of the extension-of-time discretion turning on the sufficiency of the explanation for delay; it sets no novel precedent but confirms that lack of service of notice of judgment is a satisfactory explanation for delay.

Key legal issues

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Whether the delay in lodging the notice of appeal and record of appeal was satisfactorily explained

Holding

Yes - the applicant was not served with notice of delivery of judgment, which explained the delay, and the unopposed motion was allowed.

Reasoning

The court noted the motion was in substance unopposed and that the parties agreed the applicant never received notice of the delivery of judgment. That absence of service accounted for the delay. With the delay explained, the court exercised its discretion to validate the notice of appeal and direct lodgment of the record within set timelines, leaving costs to the intended appeal.

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Legal principles established

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  • Where an applicant was not served with notice of delivery of judgment, that satisfactorily explains the delay and justifies extension of time.

Court orders

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  1. 1.Notice of appeal dated 6th December 2005 and lodged on 8th December 2005 deemed to have been lodged in time, time extended to the date of lodgment
  2. 2.Record of appeal to be lodged within twenty-one days and served on the respondent within seven days of lodgment
  3. 3.Costs of the motion to be in the intended appeal
On appeal from
High Court of Kenya at Kisumu
H.C.C.C No. 75 of 2004
Jurisdiction invoked
Inherent/appellate jurisdiction to extend time under the Court of Appeal procedure (application for extension of time to validate notice of appeal and file record of appeal out of time)

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Later judgments citing this (25)

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Judgments in the corpus that rely on this one. Where the Court said how it treated the authority, that is shown.

Cite this brief

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Cite this brief

Caselaw, "Kenya Tea Development Agency Ltd v Benson Ondimu Masese T/A B.O Masese & Company Advocates", Case Analysis (2006). Civil Application 353 of 2005. Source: https://new.kenyalaw.org/akn/ke/judgment/keca/2006/278/eng@2006-03-30

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