East African Court of Justice Arusha, 4th September 2014: The East African Court of Justice First Instance Division on 4th September 2014 allowed withdrawal of two Applications against the Attorney Generals of the 5 Partner States, the Republics of Uganda (1st Respondent), Kenya (2nd Respondent), Tanzania (3rd Respondent), Rwanda (4th Respondent), Burundi (5th Respondent) and the Secretary General of the East African Community (6th Respondent).
The subject of the Applications was to seek Court’s orders to temporarily stop the admission of South Sudan as a State Party into the EAC pending the hearing and determination of the main case.
The Applicants made an oral request in Court to withdraw the Applications on reasons that the urgency of the Applications has been diminished by the fact that the main case is scheduled for tomorrow (5th September 2014 for scheduling conference) thus consequently they were inclined to withdraw the Applications and focus on the main case. With the consent of the parties the Court allowed the withdrawal with no orders for cost.
The Applicant’s was represented by Mr Deo Mukwaya while the 1st Respondent was represented by Denis Bireje (Commissioner for Civil Litigation), Geoffrey Attoine (Senior State Attorney) and Geoffrey Madete (State Attorney) 2nd Respondent represented by Lawrence Ngugi (Senior Principal Litigation Counsel) and Timothy Kihara (Litigation Counsel), 3rd Respondent represented by Ms Alesiaa Mbuya (Principal State Attorney), Abubakar Mrisha (State Attorney) and Haruni Matagane (State Attorney), the 4th Respondent was represented by Mr Aimable Malala, the 5th Respondent was not represented and 6th Respondent was represented by Wilbert Kaahwa.
All appeared before a full bench of the First Instance Division.
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Rule 51(1) An applicant or claimant may discontinue its reference or claim against all or any of the respondents or may withdraw any part of the reference or claim; and the respondent may in similar manner discontinue or withdraw its counterclaim.
(b) With leave of the Court or with written consent of all parties after a date for opening oral proceedings had been fixed.
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