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

The Environment and Land Court in Kitale refused to reopen a concluded land case, telling the self-help group to file a fresh suit instead.

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 Kenyan court ordered reluctant land sellers to complete a property sale, but only once the buyer paid the outstanding Kshs 1 million balan

A Kenyan court threw out a company's land claim because the company had been dissolved decades ago, and confirmed the defendant owns half th

The Environment and Land Court in Meru dismissed an estate's land ownership claim, warning that unpleaded trust claims and re-litigating set

The Environment and Land Court in Meru ordered family land held in common to be subdivided according to each co-owner's registered share, ev

The Environment and Land Court in Kitale dismissed a land injunction because the plaintiffs had no grant of representation and no documentar

The Environment and Land Court in Chuka refused to protect land claimants with an injunction because they switched legal arguments mid-case

A Kenyan court threw out a 2012 land claim because it was filed against people who were already dead, ruling such a suit is a nullity that c

A land dispute filed in the wrong Kenyan court was transferred to the Chief Magistrate's Court because the court documents showed it was alw

The court refused to hand back the land immediately, instead freezing everything at the registry until the ownership dispute is finally hear

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

The Environment and Land Court dismissed outsiders' attempt to join a concluded land case and overturn its judgment, ruling an existing appe

A Nairobi land court halted execution of a judgment pending appeal, but only after the losing parties deposited Kshs.1 million as security.

A Kenyan land court refused to let a third party join an already-decided land case, telling him to file his own separate suit instead.

A Kenyan court has confirmed that magistrates without special gazetted appointment cannot cancel land titles, and it restored the buyers' ow

Bungoma's Environment and Land Court reinstated a land suit dismissed without the owner's knowledge, but ordered him to pay overdue costs an

A Kenyan court reinstated a land suit dismissed after a lawyer couldn't be heard online due to network problems, prioritising a fair hearing

A Kenyan court allowed a family to finally register land awarded to them in 2020, ordering the court's Deputy Registrar to sign the transfer

A Kenyan court refused to revive a suit dismissed for non-attendance because the plaintiff's key witness gave no sworn explanation, ending t

A Kenyan landowner's trespass case failed because it had no evidence placing the defendants on the land, and everyone walked away paying the

A land suit survived dismissal because both parties proved a pending succession case explained the two-year delay.