DOROTHY K. KWONYIKE t/a LUGUYAN ENTERPRISES vs VICTORIA COMMERCIAL BANK LIMITED [2000] KECA 58 (KLR)
The bottom line
#The Court of Appeal refused to hear a borrower's application because she had not first obeyed an existing High Court order, right or wrong.
What this practically means
#Executive summary
#Questions the Court framed
#The issues the Court set itself to decide, in its own words.
- 1.Whether the applicant's application for stay of execution, stay of proceedings and injunction could be heard where an order of the High Court made on 9th March 2000 remained unobeyed
Key legal issues
#Whether a party who has not obeyed a subsisting court order may be heard on an application for stay of execution and proceedings pending an intended appeal
The application could not be heard while the order of Mulwa, J. remained unobeyed; it was taken out of the list and stood over generally
The court, relying on its earlier decision in The Pharmacy and Poisons Board v Sipri Pharmaceuticals Limited, reaffirmed that a subsisting order binds the parties regardless of its correctness and must be complied with unless set aside on review or appeal. Counsel for the applicant admitted the order had not been obeyed. Non-compliance disentitled the applicant from being heard, so the application was stood over generally with costs of the day to the respondent.
Legal principles established
#- A court order, whether right or wrong, must be obeyed unless properly set aside by way of review or appeal; a party in contempt of an unobeyed order cannot be heard on further applications until compliance or setting aside
Court orders
#- 1.The present application is taken out of the day's list and stood over generally
- 2.Today's costs to the Respondent
The bench
#One judgment of the whole court — no separate or dissenting opinions.
- On appeal from
- High Court of Kenya at Milimani Commercial Court Nairobi
- H.C.C.C. No. 25 of 2000
- Jurisdiction invoked
- Inherent appellate jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal over applications for stay of execution and proceedings pending intended appeal (Rule 5(2)(b) practice of the Court of Appeal, as reflected in the UR application reference)
Relief refused
#Hearing of the application for stay of execution, stay of proceedings and injunction pending intended appeal
The applicant had not complied with the order of Mulwa, J. of 9th March 2000, and the application could not be heard until that order was complied with or set aside
Costs
Today's costs to the Respondent
Quotable passages
#Verbatim from the judgment, each located to the page it appears on in the official PDF — so these can be cited and checked directly.
no matter whether the order of Mulwa, J. be right or wrong, it must, unless properly set aside by way of review or an appeal, be complied with
the present application cannot be heard until the order of Mulwa, J. is complied with or set aside. The present application is hereby taken out of today's list and stood over generally
Key timeline
#Practical implications
#Frequently asked questions
#Cite this brief
#Cite this brief
Caselaw, "DOROTHY K. KWONYIKE t/a LUGUYAN ENTERPRISES vs VICTORIA COMMERCIAL BANK LIMITED [2000] KECA 58 (KLR)", Case Analysis (2000). Civil Application No. NAI. 79 of 2000 (UR.35/00). Source: https://new.kenyalaw.org/akn/ke/judgment/keca/2000/58/eng@2000-04-12
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