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In Kenya, a title deed is strong proof of land ownership, and anyone claiming it was obtained by fraud must plead and prove that fraud clear

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed schools may lawfully expel students for indiscipline without breaching constitutional rights, if fair proc

Kenya's Court of Appeal upheld a defilement conviction but scrapped the mandatory life sentence, restoring the trial court's original 30-yea

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed that married daughters inherit equally from a parent's estate, and merely occupying family land does not g

Kenya's Court of Appeal upheld a defilement conviction but reduced a mandatory life sentence to 20 years, confirming judges can depart from

Kenya's Court of Appeal ruled a man who self-transferred family land without proper documents held half of it in trust for his late brother'

Kenya's Court of Appeal ruled that trespass and boundary disputes over registered land belonged to Land Disputes Tribunals, not the High Cou

Kenya's Court of Appeal ruled that being a small community doesn't automatically make a group 'marginalised' under the Constitution, and str

Kenya's Court of Appeal ruled that a former Voice of Kenya staff member never became a KBC employee because he retired before any formal job

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed that land boundaries can only be changed with the Land Registrar's authority, and you cannot raise new arg

Kenya's Court of Appeal ruled that Narok County could not stop the Senate from questioning its Mara Conservancy revenue, because questions m

Kenya's Court of Appeal ruled that restricting a governor's access to his county offices as a bail condition is lawful and does not remove h

The Court of Appeal refused to halt enforcement of a debt judgment because the debtor had admitted owing the money, so there was no arguable

Kenya's Court of Appeal stopped a High Court order changing Xplico Insurance's shareholding, ruling the company's appeal would be worthless

Kenya's Court of Appeal overturned a Kshs 2.5 million defamation award against Nation Media Group, protecting fair reporting on public-inter

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed an arbitration award can be thrown out entirely if the arbitrator was appointed under the wrong contract c

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed that second appeals cannot re-litigate facts; two lower courts' factual findings stand unless shown to be

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed that if you don't file your appeal record on time, your notice of appeal is automatically treated as withd

Kenya's Court of Appeal refused to let chargors escalate their bank dispute to the Supreme Court, confirming that private contract disagreem

The Court of Appeal ruled that a stay of execution pauses the 12-year deadline to enforce a judgment, and dismissed Koinange Investment's cl

The Court of Appeal confirmed that land sold by ousted company directors without a proper company resolution is fraudulently transferred, an

Kenya's Court of Appeal refused to reconsider its Kshs.38.7 million award to a fired executive, confirming employers must honour contractual

Kenya's Court of Appeal refused to release a bank guarantee because unresolved related cases could affect it, even though the applicant had

Kenya's Court of Appeal limited a wrongfully dismissed employee's compensation to 12 months' salary, ruling that extra general damages canno

Kenya's Court of Appeal ordered the Standard Group to pay Agnes Zani KES 6 million because it could not prove a defamatory story was true.