Mutua Patrick Nzoka v Kenya Tourist Development Corporation & 2 others [2019] KEELRC 1389 (KLR)
The bottom line
#A Kenyan employment court paused a judgment pending appeal, but only if the employer deposited Kshs.12.96 million and paid the employee's unpaid salary with interest.
What this practically means
#Executive summary
#Key legal issues
#Conditions for stay of execution/judgment pending appeal
The application was made timeously and the Applicant had taken positive steps to prosecute the appeal; stay was granted subject to security-type conditions
The court applied Order 42 Rule 6(2) of the Civil Procedure Rules 2010, noting that since the application was made in this court, that provision (not Rule 5(2)(b) of the Court of Appeal Rules) governed. The application was timeous, typed proceedings were ready and a certificate of delay issued, showing diligence. Stay was therefore granted, but modified to protect the decree holder: the substantial decretal sum to be deposited in a joint interest-earning account and the unpaid salary/emoluments ordered in items (c) and (d) paid with interest.
Alleged contempt as a bar to the Applicant being heard
The court did not uphold the submission that the Applicant lacked audience for contempt; it proceeded to determine the application on its merits
The Respondent argued that non-compliance with paragraphs (c) and (d) of the judgment placed the Applicant in contempt, relying on Lucy Waithira Mwangi & Others v Stephen Maina Kimanga & Others (2017) eKLR, and that the Applicant should therefore be denied audience. The court did not resolve or adopt this submission as a basis for decision; instead it assessed the stay application under Order 42 Rule 6(2) and granted a conditional stay, while directing that the very items said to be unfulfilled (c) and (d) be paid with interest.
Legal principles established
#- Stay of execution pending appeal requires substantial loss, application without unreasonable delay and the giving of security, under Order 42 Rule 6(2)
Court orders
#- 1.Stay of the judgment of 7th December 2017 granted subject to modifications
- 2.The decretal sum of Kshs.12,960,000 (item (b)) to be deposited into an interest-earning account in the joint names of counsel for the claimant and counsel for the respondent within 14 days pending hearing and determination of the appeal
- 3.Items (c) and (d), being all salary/allowances and emoluments, to be paid to the respondent/decree holder together with interest as ordered in the judgment at item (e)
- 4.Costs of the application shall be in the appeal
- Jurisdiction invoked
- Order 42 Rule 6(2) of the Civil Procedure Rules 2010, the application having been made in this court pending an intended appeal
Key timeline
#Practical implications
#Frequently asked questions
#Cite this brief
#Cite this brief
Caselaw, "Mutua Patrick Nzoka v Kenya Tourist Development Corporation & 2 others [2019] KEELRC 1389 (KLR)", Case Analysis (2019). Not stated in judgment. Source: https://new.kenyalaw.org/akn/ke/judgment/keelrc/2019/1389/eng@2019-06-14
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