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Kenya's Environment and Land Court confirmed it can fix wrong dates in judgments anytime under the slip rule, without reopening the whole ca

Kenya's Environment and Land Court struck out a landowner's second petition over the same lease dispute, confirming you cannot re-litigate a

If your land dispute is already in the Supreme Court, the High Court cannot stop the payment process.

A Kenyan court ordered the National Land Commission to finally decide a Syokimau residents' land complaint, ruling seven years of silence wa

Land and environmental disputes, even those involving constitutional rights, often belong exclusively to the Environment and Land Court.

Kajiado's Environment and Land Court reinstated 51 appellants' land appeal over SGR compensation, finding delays excusable despite oppositio

Kenya's Environment and Land Court ruled that a registered society cannot sue in its own name, striking out Stony Athi Members Association's

The Environment and Land Court dismissed a defendant's attempt to strike out a land suit, confirming that objections relying on disputed fac

Kenya's Court of Appeal ruled land surrendered for schools becomes public land, so the owners' Kshs. 1.5 billion compensation claim fails.

The Nyeri High Court allowed a late judicial review filing over a Karatina land dispute, keeping Court of Appeal stay orders in place, but m

A landowner's bid to stop construction on his Athi River plot failed because partial compensation meant money, not an injunction, was the ri

The High Court quashed the National Land Commission's revocation of the applicants' land titles because the NLC gave only one day's notice a

A Malindi court refused to let an estate administrator join a land case as an interested party, because he neither held a recognised stake n

Kenya's Environment and Land Court ordered the National Land Commission's CEO to pay Dembena International Ksh 503 million from a 2024 judgm

The Kitale Environment and Land Court ordered Kenya to pay a landowner Kshs. 4 million for land taken in 1994 without notice or compensation

Kenya's land court ruled that people occupying land the State claims must be heard before it can be declared public property.

A Kenyan court cancelled the allocation of a private landowner's property, ruling that the National Land Commission has no power over privat