JUDGMENT
Cleophas Wasike (the appellant) is dissatisfied with the decision of a single judge in this civil matter and wishes to have it reversed by the full court and Mucha Swala (the respondent) is opposed to this. The learned judge’s ruling was that Cleophas Wasike’s application for an extension of the time in which to reinstate his appeal was dismissed with costs on January 20, 1984 in Nairobi. The learned judge gave two reasons for this. First, Cleophas Wasike had to show sufficient reason for the delay which he attributed to his advocate’s sloth but the learned judge said this was not sufficient reason. Secondly, he had to show that the appeal if reinstated had an overwhelming probability of success and he failed to do so. The judge said that the principles that apply to the exercise of his discretion to extend the time to take an essential step under the rules applied also to an application for more time in which to reinstate an appeal.
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