Yahaya Kiriisa v Attorney General and Another (Civil Appeal No. 7 of 1994)
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Held that dismissing an appeal for want of prosecution after wrongly refusing an adjournment, where counsel was genuinely ill, was an improper exercise of judicial discretion.
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