Read the full judgment text of CACV 000144/1982 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 23 December 1982.
1. This is an interlocutory appeal and arises from a decision by a District Judge sitting in Chambers, given on 26th August this year, whereby he refused leave to a husband/respondent in divorce proceeding to file his Answer out of' time. The wife/petitioner filed her Petition on 21st December last year for dissolution of the marriage. She based her Petition on the ground that the marriage had irretrievably broken down by virtue of the fact that her husband had behaved in such a way that she cou