RULING
Domitila Katila (the applicant) seeks the favourable exercise of this Court’s discretion under Rule 4 of the Court of Appeal Rules (the rules) to be granted leave to file a Memorandum of Appeal and or a Record of Appeal out of time. The application is predicated on four grounds on its face and supported by her affidavit sworn on 22nd July, 2019. She states in her grounds that the Notice of Appeal was filed within the prescribed period; but the proceedings before the High Court were signed and or certified on 27th June, 2019 and a certificate of delay was issued on 9th July, 2019. This was however, outside the 60 days prescribed under the Court of Appeal Rules hence the application for extension of time. She gives a chronology of events from the date the impugned judgment was delivered to the date the certificate of delay was issued. She has also attached several annexures to the affidavit in support of her depositions. All these are not contested.
The bone of contention however i…