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A Siaya court let a late land appeal proceed despite a weak excuse, prioritising the right to be heard over strict deadlines.

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 Kenyan court allowed a citizen to seek a mandamus order forcing the Ministry of Education to pay a court-awarded debt of over Kshs. 1.4 mi

A Kenyan court confirmed that a title deed alone doesn't prove land encroachment, and boundary disputes must first go to the Land Registrar,

A Kenyan court refused to block land dealings but froze the property's status quo, showing courts can preserve disputed land even when an in

Kenya's Environment and Land Court ruled an unregistered community association can sue to challenge foreign land ownership, and the case wil

A Kilifi court awarded a woman Kshs 1 million after finding her criminal prosecution was malicious, confirming that withdrawn charges can co

A Kenyan court ruled that a plaintiff cannot control who gets joined to a land dispute — necessary parties must be heard even against her wi

Kenya's Court of Appeal allowed Sengwer community appellants to add a 2025 land commission decision as new evidence in their Embobut Forest

Kenya's Environment and Land Court ruled that water disputes involving trespass, property damage or constitutional violations can go straigh

A Kenyan land court allowed 12 plaintiffs to amend their land dispute claim against tea factories, postponing the question of whether it bel

A Siaya land court refused an injunction but froze the land register and occupation until an appeal over Central Alego/Nyalgunga/1070 is dec

The Environment and Land Court in Kisii refused to stop construction of Nyambera Modern Market, finding the land buyer's loss could be paid

Kenya's Environment and Land Court refused to let Co-operative Bank join a land title case because charge and mortgage disputes belong to th

A Kakamega court allowed an estate to join a land dispute as defendants but refused to make land registry officials parties just to produce

Kenya's Employment Court ruled that a union election dispute raised as a constitutional petition cannot be thrown out just for missing stric

Kenya's Employment Court refused to review its earlier ruling because the applicant had already appealed, so the recruitment process continu

A Kenyan court allowed two plaintiffs to drop their land case but made them pay the defendants' legal costs because the case was already rea

Kenya's Environment and Land Court reinstated a dismissed village land suit, but only after the residents pay Kshs. 250,000 in thrown-away c

Kenya's Employment Court ordered Maasai Mara University to pay 19 former part-time lecturers their dues with interest, but ruled it cannot f

Kenya's Environment and Land Court struck out a community land petition because the community was not registered and statutory dispute proce

A Kenyan court froze a Kshs 100 million land sale pending appeal, confirming judges can still protect property after delivering judgment.