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Kenya's two-thirds gender rule for Parliament is not immediately enforceable but must be achieved by August 2015.

The Environment and Land Court in Kitale ruled that the Turkana community's oil pollution case against Tullow will proceed before a single j

Supreme Court confirms NLC is part of government, immune from asset attachment and garnishee orders.

Kenya's Court of Appeal dismissed a challenge to Principal Secretaries' appointments because the petitioner skipped a required statutory obj

The Employment Court struck out a petition challenging Homa Bay County staff transfers because the petitioners skipped the Public Service Co

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed that life sentences for murder will stand unless a sentencing court made an obvious error or ignored key f

Kenya's Employment Court ruled that a jurisdictional objection must rest on pure law alone; because facts needed probing, the challenge to t

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed that if you lose a case because the judge got the law wrong, you must appeal — you cannot ask the same jud

A Kenyan court upheld a county assembly woman nomination, ruling that ethnicity doesn't matter for gender top-up seats and challengers must

A Kenyan court refused to let a nominated county assembly candidate join an election petition because joining is discretionary, not automati

Supreme Court cannot hear appeals that only challenge factual findings, not constitutional interpretation.

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed that party list disputes are decided on the documented list, and you cannot raise new facts for the first

Court adopts previous written submissions but orders fresh oral arguments for new Supreme Court bench.