The East African Court of Justice Rules of Procedure 2013
(4) If the Court is satisfied that the application is
justified, it shall allow the intervention and fix a time within
which the intervener or amicus curiae may submit a statement
of intervention and the Registrar shall supply to the intervener
or amicus curiae copies of the pleadings.
(5) The intervener or amicus curiae shall accept the
case as it is at the time of intervention.
(6) Where a request to intervene is granted, the
decision of the Court in respect of the dispute or reference shall
be binding upon the intervener in respect of the intervention.
SECTION IX: PLEADINGS
37. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Rule and Rules 40,
41 and 42, every pleading shall contain a concise statement of
material facts upon which the party’s claim or defence is based
not the evidence by which those facts are to be proved.
Facts not
evidence to
be pleaded
(2) Without prejudice to sub-rule (1), the effect of any
document or the purport of any conversation referred to in the
pleading shall, if material, be briefly stated, but the precise
words of the document or conversation shall not be stated,
except in so far as those words are themselves material.
(3) A party need not plead any fact if it is presumed by
law to be true or the burden of disproving it lies on the other
party, unless the other party has specifically denied that fact.
38. (1) Every pleading shall contain the necessary
particulars of any claim, defence or other matter pleaded and
without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing shall
include—
(a)
particulars of any misrepresentation, fraud,
negligence, breach of trust, wilful default or
undue influence on which the party pleading
relies; and
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Matters to
be
specifically
pleaded