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A Kenyan court ruled that an estate administrator who loses a lawsuit must pay the legal costs personally, but the winning side's attempt to

A Murang'a court revoked a grant that used dead beneficiaries' signatures and wrongly claimed the deceased fully owned co-shared Nairobi pro

Kenya's Environment and Land Court ruled that only a deceased estate's administrator can sue for it, so beneficiary family members were bloc

A Nakuru court refused to grant a divorce because it found no legally recognised marriage existed between the couple in the first place.

Kenya's Employment Court ruled that embassy staff hired locally can sue their embassy employer despite diplomatic immunity claims.

A Kenyan court struck out an adverse possession claim because the landowner's estate was sued without naming the administrators legally appo

A Kenyan court struck out a beneficiary's land suit because he lacked a Limited Grant of Letters of Administration before suing over a decea

Kenya's Court of Appeal gave a life-sentence convict more time to appeal, confirming courts weigh justice, not just missed deadlines.

A Kenyan land court ruled that withdrawing a lawsuit doesn't let you walk away free — the plaintiff must pay the defendants' legal costs.

A Siaya land court struck out an entire estate dispute because the defendant was sued on behalf of a deceased's estate without letters of ad

A Kenyan court struck out a landowner's entire case because he sued a deceased person's estate without letters of administration, voiding th

The Environment and Land Court at Malindi struck out a family's challenge to a Kilifi land title because they had already benefited from the

A Kenyan court ruled a construction company unfairly fired seven workers but awarded only the small amounts it had already admitted owing.

A Kenyan court cancelled a land title bought from a beneficiary who sold his late father's land without letters of administration, restoring

A Kisumu land court struck out a nephew's second lawsuit over family land, ruling the ownership question had already been finally decided.

A Kenyan court ruled that land sold before a grant of administration is void, so the widow-owner keeps the property and buyers must vacate.

Kenya's Environment and Land Court reinstated an appeal dismissed after a lawyer missed court, ruling honest mistakes can be fixed by paying

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed a customary wife and her daughter as rightful heirs, ruling DNA tests aren't required to prove a child's i

Kenya's Court of Appeal refused to pause a Kshs 3 million unlawful eviction award, ruling the applicant couldn't hide behind succession law

Kenya's Court of Appeal froze the sale of one disputed flat in an estate, but allowed the rest of the estate's administration to continue.

The Court of Appeal dismissed a bid to substitute a deceased respondent because his wife and son had no grant of letters of administration.

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed that a polygamous family's estate can be shared by counting children, not just by houses, when no genuine

Kenya's Court of Appeal ruled that land bought by a deceased person but never registered in their name must be recovered through a land cour

The Court of Appeal confirmed that merely living on or being shown a deceased person's land does not make it yours — only proven lifetime gi