RULING OF THE COURT
This is a reference to this Court brought under Rule 54 of our Rules by the Applicants who are dissatisfied with the Ruling of a single Judge of this Court, Lakha JA., delivered on 9th August, 1999, dismissing the Applicant's Notice of Motion dated 18th February, 1999, for the extention of time to file a Notice of Appeal and Record of Appeal out of time.
The background to this reference is as follows. The Applicants had appealed from the judgment of O'Kubasu J. (as he then was) given in High Court Civil Suit No. 4232 of 1991 (O.S.) Consolidated with High Court Civil Suit No. 6542 of 1991, in which the Respondent herein, was the respondent therein.
The appeal was struck out on 18th February, 1999, by this Court on the procedural ground that the appeal was incompetent since the record of appeal did not include the pleadings in the matter that was heard in the superior court. The composition of this Court on this occassion, did not only, include Lakha JA.; he was also th…