IN THE COURT OF APPEAL
AT NAIROBI
CORAM: KIAGE, J.A. ( IN CHAMBERS)
CIVIL APPEAL NO. 12 OF 2020
BETWEEN
NATIONAL LAND COMMISSION..................APPELLANT/RESPONDENT
AND
JOHNSON OKIRO MISIGA.................................RESPONDENT/APPELLANT
(An appeal from the Judgment of the Employment and Labour Relations Court at Nairobi (Onesmus Makau, J.) dated 1 st November, 2019
in
ELRC Cause No. 482 of 2016)
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RULING
The application before me dated 16th September 2020 is yet another poignant and disturbing reminder that the craft of litigation in this country, and specifically appellate litigation, is fast sinking towards the nadir and calls for urgent and concerted efforts to arrest the slide towards a point of no return, beyond retrieval. I can only hope that Judges, law schools and senior practitioners see the lapses such as revealed in the motion before me as symptomatic of the broken window that, unchecked, can only be a harbinger of worse to come.
First off, it is quite obvi…