Preface
Preface
Preface
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3. The applicants violated the provisions of Order III Rule 5 of the Cadi<br />
Appeals Panel Rules 2009, which reads: an appeal shall be filed within<br />
Thirty days from the date of the order or the judgment appealed against.<br />
4. Order IV rule 15 of the Rules of this court vividly stated the procedure to<br />
be adopted if appeal to be filed is out of time.. Rule 13 of the same Order<br />
stipulates that an appeal shall not be brought out after the expiry of the<br />
time allowed for the appeal unless the panel grants an enlargement. No<br />
application for such an extension is filed before us. There is therefore no<br />
appeal before us in the eyes of law, talk less of entertaining the<br />
applicants for the prayer of stay of execution. See As’halul Madarik page<br />
156 it had been stated “the existence of what the law does not recognize<br />
is like non- existence at all”.<br />
URULING<br />
Written and delivered by Justice S. U. Mukhtar<br />
The case originated from Bundung Islamic Court before the Cadi Tijan Kah<br />
and panelists Alh. Mustapha Sanneh and Basiru Muktar Liegh. The case was heard<br />
and subsequently decided on March 2007.<br />
The applicants / appellants filed their appeal through their counsel Barrister<br />
Lamin K. Boge before this honorable Court, this year 2011. The applicants stated<br />
their grounds of Appeal and jointly applied for the motion for the stay of<br />
execution.<br />
In the cause of hearing, both parties i.e. applicants and respondents made<br />
their submissions. The respondents’ counsel sought for an adjournment, the client