CONTINENTAL SERVICES LIMITED VS. CHINA RAILWAY JIANCHANG ENGINEERING CO. (T) LIMITED CIVIL APPEAL NO. 184 OF 2018

Abstract

i. The Registrar must state in very dear terms that the days to be excluded in computing the period of limitation are those from the time when the appellant requested for copies o f proceedings to the date he notified him that the documents are ready for collection. ii. The letter from the Registrar of the High Court is intended to facilitate the issuance of a certificate of delay that reflects a verifiable and definite latest cut off date from which the sixty days within which to lodge an appeal under rule 90 (1) of the Rules, starts to run. iii. it is incorrect to say that whatever the Registrar of the High Court indicates in the certificate of delay is correct, for the dates appearing on it should be borne out of the record and in the absence of such record, the respective certificate of delay cannot be relied upon for containing unverifiable information