RULING OF THE COURT
The background to the ruling is that the applicant herein filed Industrial Cause No. 1156 of 2012 in the Industrial Court of Kenya at Nairobi (now ELRC) vide a claim dated 4th July, 2012 seeking various reliefs. The respondent filed a response thereto dated 19th November, 2012. The merit disposal of the opposing interests in the said cause is what resulted in the award dated 15th May, 2015.
The respondent was aggrieved by that decision and filed a Notice of Appeal dated 20th May, 2015; pursuant to which the record of appeal dated 25th August, 2017 was filed on the 28th August, 2017. On 2nd October, 2017, the applicant filed a Notice of Motion dated the 29th September, 2017, under Rule 84 of the Court of Appeal Rules, 2010, seeking one substantive relief namely that:
“(i) The record of appeal dated 25th August,2017 and filed on 28th August, 2017 being Civil Appeal No. 304 of 2017 be and is hereby marked as struck out with costs to the respondent.”
The application is sup…