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The High Court in Nakuru dismissed a petition alleging mismanagement of Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital funds because the petitioner

The High Court dismissed a Kshs. 45 million credit-listing petition, ruling that a bank-customer dispute belongs in a civil suit, not a cons

The High Court revived a dismissed road accident claim, holding the registered owner escaped liability but the actual buyer pays half the da

If you default on a loan secured by property, the court will likely uphold the bank's right to sell the asset if they follow the Land Act ru

Introducing new evidence on appeal is difficult; you must prove you could not have found it through reasonable effort.

When a statutory body ignores your claim, the court can compel them to act, but it cannot order the payment itself.

Regulatory bodies may be struck out of lawsuits if their general oversight role is not essential to the court's specific decision.

The High Court refused to stop a bank from selling a borrower's charged properties because he could not prove the bank broke the Land Act ru

Failing to meet court conditions means you cannot re-litigate the same issue in a fresh application.

The High Court refused to reopen a judgment holding a company liable for a road accident, ruling that evidence it had all along could not ju

The High Court refused to stop the sale of charged properties, holding that proper service by WhatsApp and email made the Tribunal's default

A Kenyan High Court froze changes to a company's ownership records during a shareholder dispute, but refused to reinstate the ousted directo

Kenya's High Court stopped auction of a hospital's equipment, ruling execution must follow the appeal judgment and medical tools of trade ar

The High Court refused to reopen its own judgment, ruling that a company's internal communication failures do not justify review of a conclu

If you are served legal papers correctly, you must respond quickly and with a real defense, or you risk losing the case by default.

The High Court in Meru overturned a dismissed road accident claim, awarding Kshs.338,000 in proved damages but rejecting unproven daily inco

Kenya's High Court struck out two Small Claims Court suits because the claimants wrongly sued through their company and split one claim into

Old court judgments can still be enforced if the debtor hides assets or if the court file was lost.

Kenya's Employment Court ruled a trade union must pay former members Kshs. 400,000 each for secretly settling their case without telling the

Kenya's Environment and Land Court gave a late appellant 10 more days to appeal, but refused to stop execution because the dismissed case co

A Kenyan land court paused execution of its own judgment for 90 days so the losing party could file and pursue an appeal.

The High Court froze land transfers from a deceased person's estate until an appeal is decided, since completing them first would make victo

The Environment and Land Court struck out a land dispute filed as a constitutional petition, ruling that fraud claims over land title must b

Kenya's Environment and Land Court ruled a buyer who traces land to its true original allottee beats a competing buyer with a weaker, unprov