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A Kenyan court refused to order a bank to account for an alleged property sale due to lack of proof, but ordered the bank to release updated

Kenya's Environment and Land Court allowed a landowner to add a witness late in trial, saying fairness in high-stakes land cases outweighs p

A Siaya court granted a man half of a family land parcel by adverse possession but dismissed his claim to the other half because he challeng

Kenya's Environment and Land Court ruled a party cannot call a witness it never disclosed at pretrial by piggybacking on another party's sum

The Environment and Land Court in Murang'a reinstated a dismissed land case, but only on strict conditions: comply with pre-trial rules in 2

A Nairobi land court protected a registered owner's apartments with a temporary injunction but refused to order eviction, and disqualified t

Kenya's Environment and Land Court set aside a default judgment in a land case, ruling that such claims must go to a full hearing, not autom

A Kenyan court dismissed an attempt to stop execution of an existing land judgment, confirming you cannot relitigate a decree through a new

Kenya's Environment and Land Court ruled that a party can only be joined to a lawsuit if the court cannot deliver a fair, workable decision

A Mombasa court allowed a landowner to add the property's new registered owner, the Land Registrar and the Attorney General to her ownership

A Meru landowner abandoned his land case mid-trial and must pay the government defendants' costs, ending the dispute without a judgment.

Kenya's Employment Court quashed an ODPP transfer issued during an employee's leave without notice, ruling employers must follow their own t

A Kenyan land court dismissed an attempt to revive a dead man's power of attorney and re-litigate an already-decided evidence request.

A Mombasa court cancelled a forged land title and ordered a Kshs 45 million buyer to return the property, ruling that a fake company's docum

A Kenyan court awarded a land buyer 4.9 acres by adverse possession, but dismissed the family's eviction suit because they had no grant for

A Nairobi court refused to reopen a land judgment and struck out tribunal orders issued in defiance of that judgment, penalising the parties

Kenya's Environment and Land Court dismissed a family's attempt to relitigate a settled land dispute, confirming that children inherit their

The Environment and Land Court refused a landowner's late attempt to add fraud and trust claims to a 2019 adverse possession suit, and order

The Environment and Land Court paused a land title cancellation, but only after the losing party deposited Kshs. 5 million as security.

The Eldoret Environment and Land Court stopped defendants from carving a road through disputed land until the full case is heard.

A Malindi court gave late-filing land plaintiffs one more chance to be heard, but only after paying the other side Kshs. 30,000.

A Kericho court refused to jail a landowner for contempt because the disputed parcel no longer existed, but denied him costs for misleading

A Kenyan court merged two land disputes over the same property into one case to avoid conflicting decisions and duplicated legal costs.

The Environment and Land Court in Isiolo dismissed a landowner's appeal because she could not prove ownership of the disputed plot, so her t