Principle

APPELLATE PRACTICE — Dismissal for Want of Prosecution — Court Lacks Jurisdiction to Relist Appeal Dismissed Under Order 6 Rule 10

Area of law
APPELLATE PRACTICE
Court
Supreme Court

This establishes that once an appeal is dismissed under Order 6 rule 10 of the Court of Appeal Rules (for failure to file appellant's brief within prescribed or extended time), the court becomes functus officio and lacks jurisdiction to relist or restore that appeal. The…

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