RULING
The application is for extension of time within which to file and serve the Memorandum and Record of Appeal. The applicant was, due to ill health coupled with inability to raise the required filing fees and security for costs, unable to instruct his advocate in time to file and serve these documents. The intended appeal is not without merit and the grant of the application would facilitate the determination of it on merit.
Judgment in HCCC No 240 of 1990 was delivered on October 12, 2000 when the applicant, who was sick, was present in court and instructed his advocate to file a Notice of Appeal, which was filed on October 18, 2000 and served on October 23, 2000. The applicant’s advocate applied for copies of proceedings and judgment on October 24, 2000, which were paid for on October 30, 2000. The applicant had been undergoing surgical operations on his stomach, which occurred in September 2000, in April and June 2001. Letters from doctors who were involved in the operations vou…