<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>SIRIBOE J.</strong> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">When this appeal came up before the court on the 29th November, 1962, counsel for the defendant (respondent herein) raised a preliminary objection that the appeal was not properly before the court. He referred to the notice of intention to appeal filed on the 28th February, 1958, against the decision given on the 26th day of the same month, and said that notice of intention to appeal was not signed by the proper person entitled to do so, as required by the provisions of section 22 of the Native Courts Ordinance, land regulation 118 (1) and (2) of the Native Courts Procedure Regulations made under that Ordinance, which applied to the appeal.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Section 22 of the Native Courts Ordinance provides as follows:</p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“No legal practitioner or attorney may appear or act for or assist any party or act in any cause or matter before a Native Court or in any cause or matter removed from a Native Court by appeal or otherwise, except in the case of such said removal, by the leave of the Court and …</p></blockquote>