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Appeal from Wanguru Principal Magistrate Court Civil Case No. 133 of 2013 (procedural ruling on missing record of appeal)
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#Your appeal cannot proceed to a final decision until the court confirms all required appeal documents have been properly filed.
What this practically means
#Executive summary
#This is a brief procedural ruling by L.W. Gitari J at the Kerugoya High Court in an appeal from the Wanguru Principal Magistrate Court Civil Case No. 133 of 2013. The appeal had been admitted under Section 79(b) of the Civil Procedure Act on 7 May 2018, and the Deputy Registrar issued a Notice of Admission of Appeal on 9 May 2018 directing the appellant's advocates, Wambugu Kariuki Associates, to prepare and file a record of appeal within 21 days. The advocates wrote to the Deputy Registrar (letter dated 1 October 2018, received 19 November 2018) asserting that a record of appeal had been filed on 25 April 2018 and served on the respondent's counsel on 7 May 2018. The court noted an anomaly: the asserted filing date preceded the admission of the appeal, and on perusal of the court file no record of appeal was found. Holding that judgment would be premature without the record, the court directed that the matter be listed for mention for the appellant's counsel to confirm whether the record of appeal was indeed filed, with parties to take a mention date by consent. No substantive issues were determined and no costs order was made. The ruling is dated 29 May 2020 at Kerugoya.
Key legal issues
#Legal principles established
#Court orders
#- 1.Matter to be listed for mention for counsel for the appellant to confirm whether the record of appeal was indeed filed
- 2.Parties to take a mention date by consent
- On appeal from
- Wanguru Principal Magistrate Court
- Civil Case No. 133 of 2013
- Jurisdiction invoked
- Section 79(b) of the Civil Procedure Act (appeal admitted thereunder)
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