Kirtee B. Patel v Fredrick Waweru & 2 others [2001] KECA 322 (KLR)
The bottom line
#Kenya's Court of Appeal threw out an appeal application because the applicant never filed a notice of appeal first — a step that cannot be skipped.
What this practically means
#Executive summary
#Questions the Court framed
#The issues the Court set itself to decide, in its own words.
- 1.Whether an application for leave to appeal is competent in the absence of a notice of appeal
Key legal issues
#Competence of an application for leave in the absence of a notice of appeal
The application was incompetent and was struck out with costs
The court held, in a one-paragraph ruling, that the existence of a notice of appeal is a prerequisite to a competent application for leave to appeal. Without it, the application could not stand and had to be struck out, with costs to the respondents.
Legal principles established
#- An application for leave to appeal filed without a notice of appeal is incompetent and liable to be struck out
Court orders
#- 1.The application for leave is struck out with costs
The bench
#One judgment of the whole court — no separate or dissenting opinions.
- On appeal from
- High Court of Kenya at Nairobi
- H.C.C.C. No. 1826 of 1987
- Jurisdiction invoked
- Application for leave to appeal under the Court of Appeal's appellate jurisdiction (Appellate Jurisdiction Act rules); no specific provision quoted in the ruling
Relief refused
#Leave to appeal
The application was incompetent because no notice of appeal had been filed
Costs
The application is struck out with costs (costs awarded against the applicant in favour of the respondents)
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.
In the absence of a notice of appeal, this application for leave is incompetent and we accordingly strike it out with costs.
Issues in the judgment
#The ruling gives no reasons beyond a single sentence; no statutory provision or rule under which the application was made is stated
Key timeline
#Practical implications
#Frequently asked questions
#Cite this brief
#Cite this brief
Caselaw, "Kirtee B. Patel v Fredrick Waweru & 2 others [2001] KECA 322 (KLR)", Case Analysis (2001). Civil Application No. Nai. 15 of 1999. Source: https://new.kenyalaw.org/akn/ke/judgment/keca/2001/322/eng@2001-05-29
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