East African Community Court of Justice
Rules of Procedure, 2019.
(b) serve a copy of the notice of address for service on
every other person named in the notice of appeal
as a person intended to be served; and
(c)
file in the Registry an affidavit of service.
(2) A notice of address for service shall be in the format
provided in Form D in the Seventh Schedule to these Rules and
shall be signed by or on behalf of the person lodging it.
(3) The lodging and service of an address for service
shall not operate or be construed as an admission that the appeal
is competent or as a waiver of any irregularity.
Application
to strike out
notice of
appeal or
appeal.
91. A person on whom a notice of appeal has been served
may at any time, either before or after the institution of the appeal,
apply to the Court to strike out the notice or the appeal, as the case
may be on the ground that no appeal lies or that some essential
step in the proceedings has not been taken or has not been taken
within the prescribed time.
Effect of
failure to
institute
appeal.
92. If a party who has lodged a notice of appeal fails to
institute an appeal within the prescribed time:—
(a) he shall be deemed to have withdrawn his notice
of appeal and shall, unless the Court orders
otherwise, be liable to pay the costs of any person
on whom the notice of appeal was served arising
from that failure to institute the appeal; and
(b) any person on whom the notice of appeal was
served shall be entitled to give notice of appeal
notwithstanding that the prescribed time has
expired, if he does so with fourteen days of the
date by which the party who lodged the previous
notice of appeal should have instituted his appeal.
Where
notice of
appeal is
lodged out
of time.
93. A party who intends to lodge in the Court an application
for extension of time to appeal shall first lodge a notice of appeal
in the Appellate Division, which shall be stamped “lodged out of
time”.
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