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A Kenyan court confirmed that a signed agreement between lawyers on a land dispute is binding and became a binding court order.

A Kenyan court upheld an employee's dismissal because refusing both a breathalyser and a blood test counted as insubordination.

A Kenyan court has temporarily stopped Nandi County from enforcing disputed land rates against Eastern Produce until the main case is decide

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

A late bid to strike out an appeal failed because Kenyan law allows only 30 days from service to file such an application.

Kenya's Court of Appeal struck out the Council of Legal Education's dormant appeal after five years of missed deadlines, ordering it to pay

Kenya's Environment and Land Court struck out a family land suit because it ignored a prior National Land Commission decision and the claima

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

Kenya's High Court ruled that photo evidence certified by an officer appointed by the Attorney General years ago is still valid and admissib

Fundamental rights violations, even from decades ago, can be pursued in Kenya, and the state cannot use the statute of limitations to block

A Kenyan court can sign transfer papers for you when the person who lost a land case refuses to hand over the land.

Kenya's Court of Appeal gave the EACC 90 days to finish a 16-year-old investigation or unfreeze accounts, lift title restrictions and return

Kenya's Environment and Land Court in Kitale merged two Trans Nzoia land suits into one case, meaning eviction of 54 occupants must wait unt

The Environment and Land Court in Kabarnet refused to pause two land cases, confirming Kenya's courts only grant stays of proceedings rarely

A Kenyan court ruled that a land seller who was fully paid and gave possession cannot take the land back, even without Land Control Board co

A Kenyan court refused to review its earlier decision because a later succession judgment did not actually remove the administrator's legal

A Kenyan land court dismissed an application to transfer a case because the applicants repeatedly failed to show up and prosecute it.

Kenya's Environment and Land Court can tax advocates' bills of costs from its own cases, so lawyers need not file them in the High Court.

A Kenyan land dispute over Nandi/Mutwot/32 ended when the court adopted the parties' settlement agreement as its binding judgment.

Kenya's High Court threw out a trespass judgment over Isiolo plot Chechelesi 261 because the landowner relied on weak planning documents ins

A Kenyan magistrate ruled the prosecution showed enough evidence of malicious damage to a house, so the accused must now present his defence

A Kenyan landowner facing eviction won a pause on the judgment against him, but only after depositing Kshs. 100,000 as security — if he miss