RULING
The Applicant before me is Reliance Bank Ltd. (In Liquidation). It asks me, through its learned counsel, Mr. Mwagonah Emmanuel Mwagambo, to extend for it under Rule 4 of the Court of Appeal Rules, the time within which to lodge its notice of appeal and record of appeal. Rule 4 is, as everybody who has anything to do with the Court’s Rules knows, is one of the most over-worked rules in the rule book. That Rule is in these terms:-
“The Court may, on such terms as it thinks just, by order extend the time limited by these Rules, or by any decision of the Court or of a superior court, for the doing of an act authorized or required by these Rules, whether before or after the doing of the act, and a reference in these Rules to any such time shall be construed as a reference to that time as extended.”
So the Court, which in the circumstances of the Rules means a single member of the Court, has complete discretion to extend or refuse to extend the time but of course taking into account the…