112.
In the
Applicants’
Application
dated
16
submit that “the decision [of Justice Utamwa
by
the
Applicants.
generated
was
The
plainly
January
they
] was not well received
heat,
anger,
mistrust
reflected
in
public
the
2012,
and
frustration
statements
to
it
the
media”.
113.
Acting under section 4(3) of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act, Cap
141 R.E. 2002, the Court of Appeal called for the records of the High
Court
on the case,
“in order to satisfy itself as to the
correctness,
legality or propriety of the findings or orders of the learned High Court
Judge or as to the regularity of the proceedings”. The Court of Appeal
considered the case as Civil Revision No. 10 of 2010.
114.
After hearing
counsel
for Respondent
and
Plaintiffs, the Court
of Appeal “quashed that part of the High Court ruling striking out the
application and
ordered the substantive application to be heard
on
merit as soon as possible but by another Judge... All said and done,
we
find and
issue
a
hold
that the
Certificate
under
High
Court
s.16
of
had
the
been
Act.
properly
The
moved
learned
to
Judge
therefore, erred in law in failing to exercise his jurisdiction to hear and
determine the application
order
striking
out
the
on merit. That is why we did set aside his
application
for
being
incompetent
and
we
restore it and ordered that it be heard and determined forthwith by
another Judge”.
It is important to state here
did not examine the merits of the case.
thatthe Court of Appeal
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