Applicants v Respondent (extension of time and stay of execution application)
The bottom line
#If you are appealing a court decision, you can get more time and stop enforcement, provided you show a good reason for the delay and offer security.
What this practically means
#Executive summary
#Key legal issues
#Extension of time to file an appeal under Section 79G
The court has discretion to extend time where the appellant shows good and sufficient cause; the delay of about 3 months was explained, albeit without documentary support, and was accepted.
Section 79G requires appeals within 30 days unless the appellant shows good and sufficient cause. The court applied the Aviation Cargo test: delay must not be inordinate or, if inordinate, must be plausibly explained. The Applicants explained the delay by the resignation of the handling advocate without notice; the court found the explanation sufficient to exercise discretion in their favour.
Stay of execution under Order 42 rule 6(2)
Substantial loss was demonstrated through the Applicants' apprehension that the Respondent is a person of unknown means; the Respondent gave no evidence of resources, so the burden shifted to him.
Order 42 rule 6(2) requires substantial loss, absence of unreasonable delay and security. Relying on National Industrial Credit Bank Ltd v Aquinas Francis Wasike, the court held that once a reasonable fear of inability to refund is expressed, the evidential burden shifts to the respondent, who said nothing about his means. The court balanced the parties' interests by conditioning the stay on deposit of the decretal sum.
Legal principles established
#- Once an applicant expresses a reasonable fear that a respondent would be unable to refund the decretal sum, the evidential burden shifts to the respondent to show his resources.
Court orders
#- 1.Leave granted to lodge the Memorandum of Appeal out of time, on condition that the decretal sum is deposited in a joint interest-earning bank account of the counsels for the parties or in court within 30 days from the date of the order
- 2.Stay of execution of the judgment and decree in Milimani CMCC No. 2135 of 2013 pending the intended appeal, subject to the same deposit condition
- 3.Costs of the application to the Respondent
- On appeal from
- Senior Resident Magistrate's Court (Milimani)
- Milimani CMCC No. 2135 of 2013
- Jurisdiction invoked
- Section 79G of the Civil Procedure Act; Order 50 rule 6 and Order 42 rule 6(2) of the Civil Procedure Rules, 2010; Section 3A and Section 95 of the Civil Procedure Act
Key timeline
#Practical implications
#Frequently asked questions
#Cite this brief
#Cite this brief
Caselaw, "Applicants v Respondent (extension of time and stay of execution application)", Case Analysis (2019). Milimani CMCC No. 2135 of 2013 (application dated 11th April, 2018). Source:
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