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Kenya's High Court-affirming principle: the 12-year deadline to sue over land starts when the breach happens, not when the sale agreement wa

The High Court dismissed a landowner's bid to overturn a land registrar's boundary rectification, because she had originally agreed to it, a

A Kenyan land buyer lost his injunction bid because he was re-litigating a dispute already decided against him years earlier.

A Kenyan court restored a land case dismissed without a hearing because the plaintiff was never served with notice before the dismissal.

A Kenyan court refused to pause a land dispute, ruling that the Applicant should have defended the magistrate court case instead of filing a

A Nairobi court refused to evict occupiers of a Gitanga Road property mid-case because the buyer showed no proof of paying Kshs 100 million;

A Kerugoya court cancelled a land buyer's title because the agricultural land sale lacked Land Control Board consent, and registered the wid

A Kenyan court took away a registered landowner's title because he obtained it fraudulently and the occupier had lived on the land openly fo

A Kenyan court ordered a man evicted from land he had paid for, but the vendors who sold it must refund his money.

A Kenyan land buyer with official search certificates and rate receipts beat a rival who had no ownership documents, winning a court-ordered

Kenya's Environment and Land Court confirmed a 60-day deadline for NEMA environmental appeals, but it only starts once you actually receive

A Kenyan court refused to force release of a land title because the borrower had repaid the loan principal but not the interest agreed in a

Kenya's Environment and Land Court struck out a suit against a bank in liquidation because the plaintiff did not get court sanction first, a

The Environment and Land Court confirmed a registered owner's right to evict a trespasser, but refused compensation because the claim was ne

A Kenyan court dismissed a wife's suit to divide matrimonial property because the Environment and Land Court has no jurisdiction over matrim

The High Court cannot review its own judicial review orders in Kenya — if you missed a mandamus case, your only remedy is appealing to the C

A Kenyan court upheld a Land Disputes Tribunal's decision, ruling the tribunal acted within its powers and gave both sides a fair hearing.

The Environment and Land Court refused to stop the sale of Nairobi properties that had already been lawfully auctioned to satisfy an arbitra

A Kenyan court confirmed that a registered land owner can evict a trespasser, but compensation for use of the land must be actually proven i

The court refused to dismiss a stalled land case but gave the plaintiff three months to move it forward or lose it with costs.

A landowner who admits a sale in his court papers cannot later deny it, so his eviction bid against buyers who paid through his agent failed

The court dismissed a land suit against Nairobi's city council because the plaintiffs waited 16 years to sue and could not prove the council

Kenya's Environment and Land Court, not the High Court, handles arbitration-related injunctions in land disputes.