East African Court of Appeal

The East African Court of Appeal (EACA) was a court that served as the appellate court for the British colonies in eastern Africa and western Asia. Established in 1902 as the Eastern African Court of Appeal for British Kenya, the Uganda Protectorate, and Nyasaland, it was later renamed the East African Court of Appeal and, in the 1950s, the Court of Appeal for East Africa; it was based in Kenya. Over time its jurisdiction grew to cover the Sultanate of Zanzibar, Tanganyika, British Somaliland, the Aden Protectorate, the Colony of Aden, the Federation of South Arabia, the Protectorate of South Arabia, British Mauritius, British Seychelles, and Saint Helena, with decisions appealable, with leave, to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Independent Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda retained the court as the appellate court for the East African Community until the original Community was abolished in 1977, when the court was abolished with it. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/