COUNTY SECRETARY COUNTY GOVERNMENT OF BUSIA V. MANWARI & CO. ADVOCATES

RULING

By a Notice of Motion lodged on 14^th June 2016, the applicant, the Secretary, the County Government of Busia applied for time to be extended under Rule 4 of the Court of Appeal Rules 2010 to file a Notice of Appeal.

The motion was premised on the grounds that by a ruling dated 12^th March 2020 made in Busia High Court Civil Appeal No. 16 of 2018 the High Court ordered the arrest and committal to civil jail of the applicant’s Finance Executive Member; that the High Court had granted the applicant 14 days within which to file the Notice of appeal, but following a directive issued by the then Hon the Chief Justice, David Maraga on 15^th March 2020, court operations were scaled down throughout the country on account of the rapidly spreading Covid- 19 pandemic; that this rendered it impossible for the applicant to obtain a copy of the ruling as court staff were unavailable. Further restrictions were put in place on 6^th April 2020 by the Cabinet Secretary for Health vide Legal Notice. No…