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Kenya's Small Claims Court struck out a road accident injury claim, ruling it has no power to hear personal injury cases.

A Kenyan Small Claims Court confirmed you can prove car repair costs with an assessor's report alone, but delaying repairs will slash your c

A Lamu Small Claims Court held salon assaulters fully liable for battery, awarding about Kshs.71,000 because no medical report proved worse

Kenya's Small Claims Court refused to pay a supplier Kshs. 875,000 because the school job skipped mandatory public procurement rules, voidin

A Kenyan Small Claims Court awarded a debt of Kshs.116,430 in full after the debtor admitted the claim in court.

A Lamu court awarded a shop owner Kshs.170,000 after the debtor ignored the claim—ignore a Small Claims Court case and judgment enters autom

A Kitale court awarded a private lender Kshs. 600,000 based on WhatsApp messages, but capped interest at the loan amount, halving the claim.

A Kitale court ruled a lender can recover Kshs 345,822 on a defaulted personal loan, confirming Kenya's in duplum rule caps interest but doe

A Kenyan lender lost a Kshs. 445,499 loan claim because it never filed the loan statement account proving the borrower actually defaulted.

A Kenyan court confirmed you have 12 years to sue on a judgment, not the usual 3-year limit for tort claims.

A Kenyan supplier who received Kshs. 900,000 but never delivered maize was ordered to repay, because blaming someone else without suing them

A Kenyan court enforced a signed debt agreement and threw out a counterclaim because the claimed lost income was never proven with evidence.

A Kitale court awarded a lender over Kshs. 197,000 after the borrower never showed up, proving signed loan documents alone can win an undefe

Kenya's Small Claims Court confirmed it can hear land-lease money refund claims, ordering a respondent to repay Kshs. 690,000 she obtained w

A Lamu court dismissed a Kshs.163,780 stock-loss claim because the supplier couldn't prove the goods were actually delivered to the distribu

Winning in court still requires proof for every claim, even when the other side never shows up — this claimant got Kshs. 30,000, not 55,000.

A Kitana Small Claims Court ordered a road contractor to pay over Kshs. 832,000 plus interest for an unpaid equipment lease, after ignoring

A Lamu court dismissed a parcel-loss claim because the sender never declared the goods' contents and accepted the delivery without inspectin

A Kitale court ruled a supplier could refuse late-returned expired goods and treat post-dated cheques as promises to pay, not actual payment