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A Nyeri court refused to let new lawyers take over a compensation case or change how money is shared, dismissing the application with costs.

Kenya's Environment and Land Court ruled you cannot use a preliminary objection to kill a land compensation case when the objections require

A Kenyan court refused to revive a land suit dismissed for delay, ruling the claimants failed to prove the court file was ever misplaced.

A Kenyan court dismissed both a squatters' adverse possession claim and a company's Sh2 billion land claim, ruling that neither held enforce

Kenya's Environment and Land Court confirmed you cannot join a lawsuit as an interested party after the case has been marked settled.

The Environment and Land Court refused to re-open a concluded land case, ruling that parties cannot fix weak evidence after closing their ca

A Kenyan court confirmed that costs awarded in a judgment carry no interest unless the judge expressly orders interest, and co-defendants ca

A Kenyan court cancelled land titles traced to a forged allocation, confirming that a tainted root of title cannot pass ownership even to bu

A 26-year-old Kenyan land dispute ended with buyers recovering over Kshs. 100 million including interest, but the court refused to enforce a

Kenya's Environment and Land Court set aside a judgment that cancelled land titles without ever hearing the title holders.

A Kenyan court refused to stay a judgment that merely dismissed a land suit with costs, because there was nothing to execute except costs.

A Kenyan court halted civil jail arrest pending appeal, but only if the judgment debtors deposit the full KShs 10 million owed within 60 day

The court dismissed a family's land claim in Kisumu because they produced no proof their father actually owned the land they were fighting o

Kenya's Court of Appeal dismissed a decades-long Kilifi land compensation claim because the landowner kept his titles and possession—no comp

A Nyeri court threw out a lawyer's bid to increase a Kshs 8.5 million fee award because he never clearly showed a legal ground for review.

Kenya's Environment and Land Court set aside a 2017 land judgment because the defendant was never properly served, restarting the case from

A Kenyan court refused to excuse a one-year delay in challenging a taxing officer's ruling, confirming that extension of time must be earned

Kenya's Kitale land court refused to let a petitioner add a late Ministry of Lands letter, calling it a fishing expedition, and ordered him

A Kenyan court ruled the first person to receive and act on a land allotment keeps it, even when someone else later holds another letter for

Kenya's High Court ruled that minor paperwork errors don't block key documents from being used as evidence if the documents are clearly iden