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Court of AppealOtherCivil Appeal 67 of 1997· [1998] KECA 38 (KLR)
Geoffrey Kihunyu Wanjura v 1. Gichini Kiguta 2. Mutirithia Farmers Co. Ltd
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#Kenya's Court of Appeal postponed this land dispute appeal indefinitely because the appellant's lawyer was abroad — no decision was made on the merits.
What this practically means
#Executive summary
#This document is not a substantive appellate judgment but a brief procedural order of the Court of Appeal at Nakuru dated 22 September 1998, made by Kwach, Pall and Owuor, JJA. The appeal by Geoffrey Kihunyu Wanjura against Gichini Kiguta and Mutirithia Farmers Co. Ltd, arising from a High Court judgment of Rimita, J. dated 21 September 1994 in H.C.C.C. No. 67 of 1997, had been listed for hearing. Counsel for the appellant, Mr. Mirugi Kariuki, was away from the country but had communicated with the Court by fax. On that basis the Court removed the appeal from the day's hearing list and stood it over generally. No issues of law or fact were determined, no decision of the High Court was affirmed, reversed or varied, and no costs order was made. The document contains no ratio decidendi and creates no binding precedent; it is recorded here solely to document the procedural history of the appeal. Note also an apparent clerical inconsistency: the High Court case number is printed as 67 of 1997, the same number as the appeal, and the High Court judgment date (1994) precedes the appeal's year of institution (1997).
Key legal issues
#Legal principles established
#Court orders
#- 1.This appeal is hereby taken out of today's hearing list and stood over generally.
- On appeal from
- High Court of Kenya at Nakuru
- H.C.C.C. No. 67 of 1997
- Jurisdiction invoked
- Appellate jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal over the High Court (appeal from H.C.C.C. No. 67 of 1997); no specific constitutional or statutory provision is cited in the document.
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#Cite this brief
Caselaw, "Geoffrey Kihunyu Wanjura v 1. Gichini Kiguta 2. Mutirithia Farmers Co. Ltd", Case Analysis (1998). Civil Appeal 67 of 1997. Source: https://new.kenyalaw.org/akn/ke/judgment/keca/1998/38/eng@1998-09-22
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