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Court of AppealAllowedCivil Application E189 of 2021· [2022] KECA 942 (KLR)
Peter Mururu Stephen & another v Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company; Kenya County of Government Workers Union (Interested Party)
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#The Court of Appeal gave two applicants more time to file their appeal against a High Court succession ruling, with no costs awarded.
What this practically means
#Executive summary
#This is a brief single-Judge ruling of the Court of Appeal at Nairobi delivered by D. K. Musinga, JA (P), on 22nd July 2022 in Civil Application E189 of 2021. The applicants, Peter Mururu Stephen and Nelson Wanyoike Mburu, sought extension of time within which to file a Notice of Appeal from a ruling of the High Court of Kenya at Nairobi (Family Division) (A. O. Muchelule, J.) dated 5th July 2021 in H.C. Succ. Cause No. 3079 of 2002, a succession cause. The respondents were Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company, with the Kenya County of Government Workers Union joined as an interested party. The ruling contains no discussion of the grounds for the application, no consideration of the length of delay, and no analysis of the proposed appeal's arguability; it proceeds directly to disposition. The court allowed the application by approving the draft order dated 23rd September 2021 as drawn, thereby granting the extension sought. No costs order was recorded, and no authorities or statutory provisions were cited. As a single-Judge decision under the Court of Appeal's procedural jurisdiction, it binds no court on any point of law and establishes no precedent beyond giving effect to the approved draft order. The terms of the extension itself are contained in the draft order, which is not reproduced in the judgment.
Key legal issues
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Extension of time to file a Notice of Appeal
Holding
The single Judge approved the draft order dated 23rd September 2021 as drawn, thereby granting the extension sought.
Reasoning
The judgment contains no reasoning; it records only the disposition approving the draft order. The application was for extension of time within which to file a Notice of Appeal from the High Court ruling of 5th July 2021.
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Legal principles established
#- Where a single Judge of the Court of Appeal approves a draft order on an extension-of-time application, the draft order as drawn takes effect as the order of the court.
Court orders
#- 1.The Draft order dated 23rd September 2021 be and is hereby approved as drawn.
- On appeal from
- High Court of Kenya at Nairobi (Family Division)
- H.C. Succ. Cause No. 3079 of 2002
- Jurisdiction invoked
- Not stated in the judgment; the application is for extension of time to file a Notice of Appeal (Court of Appeal jurisdiction over appeals from the High Court)
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#Cite this brief
#Cite this brief
Caselaw, "Peter Mururu Stephen & another v Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company; Kenya County of Government Workers Union (Interested Party)", Case Analysis (2022). Civil Application E189 of 2021. Source: https://new.kenyalaw.org/akn/ke/judgment/keca/2022/942/eng@2022-07-22
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