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Photographs taken by officers appointed before 2012 remain admissible in Kenyan court, even if current laws specify a different appointing a

To use evidence from a previous trial, the prosecution must prove the witness is dead or untraceable and must show they made a genuine effor

A retrial allows the court to admit evidence from deceased witnesses if the statutory conditions are met.

A lender suing to recover Kshs. 298,500 lost in Kenya's Small Claims Court because her paperwork didn't prove the loan, and was ordered to p

Kenya's Environment and Land Court dismissed a society's third attempt to stop eviction, ruling the matter was already decided and compensat

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

Kenya's Employment Court ruled that a time-bar defence based on disputed promises to pay must be proven with evidence at trial, not struck o

Kenya's Employment Court struck out a constitutional petition, confirming employment disputes must start as a Memorandum of Claim, not a pet

A Kenyan court ruled a teacher's dismissal unfair because his school never invited him to a disciplinary hearing or let him question his acc

A Kenyan court ruled that an advocate who accepted Ksh 19 million in agreed periodic fees cannot demand more through taxation.

Kenya's Environment and Land Court struck out a land dispute because the same claim had already been decided, confirming you only get one ch

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 ordered land sellers who took full payment but never transferred the land to refund everything, pay extra damages, and stop s

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.

A Kenyan court cut a KShs. 384,120 group loan claim to about KShs. 109,200 because the lender never specified who owed what.

Kenya's Environment and Land Court confirmed the landowner's title, dismissed the rival claim, and ordered the occupant to vacate after prop

A Kenyan land buyer with a registered title won an injunction, and a defendant who kept building despite a court order now faces jail and a

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 threw out a magistrate's land ruling because magistrates cannot decide adverse possession claims—only the Environment and Lan

The High Court at Kilgoris dismissed a request to disqualify the judge, ruling that a judge's remarks in an earlier judgment do not show bia

The Environment and Land Court in Garissa refused to waive a Kshs. 1 million security deposit, ruling that financial hardship claims need so

Kenya's Environment and Land Court ruled that owning land alone doesn't prove trespass—you must show the intruding structure is actually on

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