<p class="ql-align-center">REPUBLIC OF KENYA</p><p class="ql-align-center">IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF KENYA</p><p class="ql-align-center">AT NAIROBI</p><p class="ql-align-center">CIVIL APPLICATION NO NAI 64 OF 1987</p><p class="ql-align-center">LILIAN WAIRIMU KINGA’NGI ..............................................APPELLANTS</p><p class="ql-align-center">VERSUS</p><p class="ql-align-center">PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF EAST AFRICA and ATTORNEY......RESPONDENT</p><p class="ql-align-center">RULING</p><p class="ql-align-justify">November 16, 1987, Apaloo JA delivered the following Ruling.</p><p class="ql-align-justify">The intending applicant invites me to extend the time for her to lodge an appeal against a judgment delivered against her by the High Court on November 28, 1985. She said she lodged a Notice of Appeal on December 4, 1985, that is 6 days after the judgment. She was obliged to lodge the appeal within 60 days from that date. Making allowance for the Christmas judicial vacation, it is admitted that she is about 14 months out of time.</p><p class="ql-align-justify">That on the face of it, is an unusually long time. But she said she has been ill since the delivery of judgment. To support this assertion, she annexed to her affidavit , a medical certificate signed by a Dr James Kamau who certified that “during the last s…</p>