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Supreme Court: you won't always pay costs even if you lose a case.

Supreme Court can overrule its own past decisions, but only for very strong reasons.

A Supreme Court judge won't be forced to step down just because he once recused himself in a lower court.

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed it has no power to reopen a concluded appeal, even where a party alleges judicial bias, and struck out the

Kenya's Court of Appeal removed a lawyer's notice of appointment and an affidavit from the case record, warning advocates their filings can

Kenya's Court of Appeal ruled that minority shareholders must exit through a reasonable buy-out offer and arbitration, not by winding up the

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed that lawyers may cite any part of the appeal record, and High Court legal statements do not bind it.

Withdrawing a land case in Kenya does not shield you from paying the other side's legal costs once they have already defended the suit.

Withdrawing an appeal in Kenya doesn't shield you from paying the other side's legal costs once they've already responded through a lawyer.

The Environment and Land Court in Kapsabet dismissed a land case transfer application as an abuse of process because a similar matter was al

The High Court allowed a law firm to withdraw its own application to stop representing two plaintiffs, with no immediate costs awarded.

A Kenyan court confirmed anyone can freely withdraw their case before judgment, and a withdrawn contempt application ended with no one payin

About 1,500 Chebonet residents withdrew their eviction petition in Kenya's Environment and Land Court, and no party was forced to pay the ot

A Kenyan magistrates' court cannot hear adverse possession claims, and a defective claim before it cannot be fixed by simply transferring th

A Kenyan court confirmed that a plaintiff can freely withdraw a land dispute before defendants respond, without paying their legal costs.

A Kenyan court ruled that defendants dropped from a withdrawn land suit deserve their costs, even though they subdivided the disputed land w

The Chief Land Registrar cannot join a Supreme Court case just to add new evidence.

Filing a notice of appeal in Kenya buys you only 60 days to actually lodge the appeal — miss it and your appeal is deemed withdrawn.

Court dismissed extension of time because applicant falsely claimed he wasn't served with the ruling.

A Kenyan land court let plaintiffs swap their adverse possession claim for a different one, but they paid Kshs 4,000 even though nobody obje

Supreme Court waived costs for withdrawn election appeal citing public interest, each side pays own costs.

A Nairobi court made everyone pay their own legal bills after residents and developers settled a housing dispute early without revealing the

Supreme Court allows withdrawal of election review with no costs.