RULING
The applicants, Stephen Thiongo Kamau and 5 others in the Motion on notice brought under rule 4 of the Court of Appeal Rules pray in the main that time for filing Notice of Appeal against the ruling and order of the High Court of Kenya given on 23rd June, 2023 at Nairobi be extended to 11th July, 2021 (this should be 2023); that Notice of Appeal filed on 11th July, 2023 be deemed as properly filed and served and that costs of the application be in the intended appeal. In grounds in support of the Motion and in an affidavit of the 5th applicant Joseph Gachanja Guchu it is said amongst other things that the applicants failed to file notice of appeal within the prescribed time because they only became aware of the orders given on 11th July, 2023 when a copy of the ruling delivered on 23rd June, 2023 was made available to them; that when the ruling was delivered virtually on 23rd June, 2023 the parties were not informed of the whole ruling but were given a summary of t…