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ELCAllowedELC. Pet No. 5 of 2017· [2018] KEELC 3986 (KLR)
Michael Bett Siror v National Land Commission, Attorney General & 13 others [2018] KEELC 3986 (KLR)
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#A Kenyan land court allowed a late applicant to join an ongoing land petition, giving her 14 days to file her response.
What this practically means
#Executive summary
#This is a short interlocutory ruling of the Environment and Land Court at Kitale in an ongoing petition, ELC. Pet No. 5 of 2017, in which Michael Bett Siror sues the National Land Commission and the Attorney General, with numerous interested parties already on record. The application before the court was by the 12th Interested Party, represented by Ms. Bukachi, seeking to come on record in the petition. The court observed that the existing interested parties had previously been given the chance to file responses to the petition. On that footing, Mwangi Njoroge J granted the 12th Interested Party leave to come on record and to file a response to the petition, allowing fourteen days from the date of the order for the response to be filed. The ruling was dated, signed and delivered at Kitale on 13 February 2018 and was read in open court. No costs order was made, no substantive issues in the petition were determined, and no authorities were cited. The ruling does not disturb any decision below and does not dispose of the petition; it merely regulates participation in the proceedings by admitting the 12th Interested Party to the suit.
Key legal issues
#01
Whether the 12th Interested Party should be admitted to the petition
Holding
Leave granted to come on record and respond within 14 days
Reasoning
The court noted that the existing interested parties had already been afforded the opportunity to file responses, and on that basis extended the same opportunity to the 12th Interested Party, fixing a 14-day window for filing the response to the petition.
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Legal principles established
#- An interested party seeking to join proceedings after other parties have filed responses may be granted leave to come on record and file a response within a set period
Court orders
#- 1.The 12th Interested Party is granted leave to come on record and file a response to the petition within 14 days of the order
- Jurisdiction invoked
- Article 162(2) of the Constitution establishing the Environment and Land Court (implied; the judgment does not expressly state the provision)
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#Cite this brief
#Cite this brief
Caselaw, "Michael Bett Siror v National Land Commission, Attorney General & 13 others [2018] KEELC 3986 (KLR)", Case Analysis (2018). ELC. Pet No. 5 of 2017. Source: https://new.kenyalaw.org/akn/ke/judgment/keelc/2018/3986/eng@2018-02-13
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