'RULING
1. I have considered the Chamber summons dated 3/12/2025 filed under certificate of urgency. I am satisfied that the matter is urgent. It is hereby certified as urgent.
2. On whether I should grant leave to apply for substantive notice of motion, Iam satisfied, upon perusal of the chamber summons, the statutory statement and the verifying affidavit that the intended motion is arguable and not frivolous or hopeless.
3. Accordingly, leave to apply for judicial review orders sought in the aforesaid chamber summons is hereby granted.
4. The substantive motion to be filed and served within 21 days of today in a fresh substantive judicial review file
5. The prayer for stay is declined as it amounts to determining the substantive matter before hearing all the parties to the dispute, noting that the applicants seek orders, among others, CERTIORARI to quash the ex-parte Restraining Orders issued by the Sports Disputes Tribunal on 3rd October 2025 in SDT Cause No. E072 of 2025 and MANDAMUS to compel the Sports Disputes Tribunal to forthwith list and hear the Ex-Parte Applicants'' Application for Discharge/Setting Aside of Orders dated 31st October 2025. A stay order will defeat the purpose for which mandamus order as sought above was made and render the declaration sought moot and therefore the merits of the substantive motion to be an academic exercise.
6. I make no orders as to costs.
7. This file is closed.
R.E.ABURILI
JUDGE
5/12/2025'
1. I have considered the Chamber summons dated 3/12/2025 filed under certificate of urgency. I am satisfied that the matter is urgent. It is hereby certified as urgent.
2. On whether I should grant leave to apply for substantive notice of motion, Iam satisfied, upon perusal of the chamber summons, the statutory statement and the verifying affidavit that the intended motion is arguable and not frivolous or hopeless.
3. Accordingly, leave to apply for judicial review orders sought in the aforesaid chamber summons is hereby granted.
4. The substantive motion to be filed and served within 21 days of today in a fresh substantive judicial review file
5. The prayer for stay is declined as it amounts to determining the substantive matter before hearing all the parties to the dispute, noting that the applicants seek orders, among others, CERTIORARI to quash the ex-parte Restraining Orders issued by the Sports Disputes Tribunal on 3rd October 2025 in SDT Cause No. E072 of 2025 and MANDAMUS to compel the Sports Disputes Tribunal to forthwith list and hear the Ex-Parte Applicants'' Application for Discharge/Setting Aside of Orders dated 31st October 2025. A stay order will defeat the purpose for which mandamus order as sought above was made and render the declaration sought moot and therefore the merits of the substantive motion to be an academic exercise.
6. I make no orders as to costs.
7. This file is closed.
R.E.ABURILI
JUDGE
5/12/2025'