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Serious illness is a valid ground for a court to release a judgment debtor from civil prison, provided conditions are met.

If a court makes a clear, accidental mistake in a judgment, you can apply to have it corrected to reflect the judge's true intention.

Courts in Kenya can correct simple typos or clerical errors in their final judgments to ensure the official record is accurate.

If a court makes a simple clerical error in a ruling, you can apply to have it corrected under the Civil Procedure Act.

If you delay your appeal and fail to pay rent, the court can force you to make extra deposits or face immediate eviction.

Court rules cannot fix errors in your own legal documents; if you made the mistake, you must apply to amend your original filing.

Filing in the wrong court is a fatal mistake; the High Court cannot transfer a suit that was never properly filed.

Kenya's High Court corrected a judge's mix-up between two applications, extending a summons by 12 months and allowing service of defendants

Kenya's High Court reinstated a dismissed case because a lawyer's honest mistake shouldn't cost their client, though the client paid all res

Kenya's High Court dismissed an appeal where the appellant sat on it for over a year, confirming respondents can still seek dismissal even a

Kenya's High Court struck out a review application because the applicants had already filed an appeal over the same ruling; you must choose

Kenya's High Court set aside a default judgment because the process server was unlicensed, but made the defendant's relief conditional on pa

The High Court has the power to move a case from a lower court to itself under specific procedural rules.

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

A Kenyan court refused to pause a land judgment because the appellant showed no real evidence of the loss he claimed.

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

Kenya's Environment and Land Court struck out a railway land petition because its issues had already been decided in an earlier case.

Kenya's Environment and Land Court ruled that a preliminary objection cannot be used to decide disputed facts about land ownership, reviving

A Kenyan court ruled that a land dispute is not automatically barred just because someone else previously litigated over the same parcel of

A Kenyan court dismissed a woman's 40-year land claim because she couldn't prove her occupation was without the owner's permission.

The Environment and Land Court dismissed a family's bid to stop Homa Bay ward offices being built on their land, because no expert survey pr

A Kenyan court ruled that a company facing execution of a judgment debt must send its officials to court, striking out its attempt to block