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A Kenyan land court refused to let a stranger join an old case because he failed to prove how the outcome actually affected his property.

The court refused to pause the cancellation of Papiyo Investment's land title because the judgment had already been carried out and no real

Kenya's land court confirmed the EACC can sue to recover disputed public land and struck out a defendant's improperly filed cross-constituti

A Kenyan court cancelled a land buyer's title because the seller-trustees lacked consent and the buyer couldn't prove a lawful purchase.

A Kenyan court stopped criminal investigations into a family property dispute already before civil courts, ruling the investigations abused

Kenya's Employment Court struck out a police casual workers' petition because the 285 workers it claimed to represent were unnamed and never

The Environment and Land Court in Isiolo dismissed 54 residents' claims to plots near Isiolo Airstrip because they could not prove they were

A Narok court refused to let a deceased family's estate control hotel revenue on disputed land, ruling such estate matters belong in success

A Kenyan quarry operator won a stay of execution freezing a ruling that cancelled its forest licence, provided it deposits Kshs.500,000 as s

Over 100 Mombasa land occupants won a stay of their eviction pending appeal, provided they deposit Kshs. 1.5 million as security within 45 d

A Machakos court let litigants change lawyers but refused to reopen a struck-out petition, confirming that losing parties should appeal rath

The Environment and Land Court in Mombasa struck out a land petition because refiling a rejected case instead of appealing is an abuse of co

A Kenyan court froze government-linked bank accounts to pay Kshs 8.3 million, confirming the National Land Commission is not shielded from d

Kenya's Environment and Land Court ordered 107 occupants evicted from a Mombasa plot, holding that living on land for years proves nothing w

Kenya's Environment and Land Court confirmed it can decide boundary disputes over unregistered community land, even before adjudication is c

The Environment and Land Court struck out a land dispute filed as a constitutional petition, ruling that fraud claims over land title must b

When a Kenyan petition is withdrawn early—before pleadings close—courts often rule that no party gets costs, leaving everyone to pay their o

A Nairobi landowner was held responsible for illegal dumping on its leased land, winning only partial relief as restoration and damages were

Kenya's Environment and Land Court in Malindi refused to strike out a land petition early, ruling time-bar and procedural arguments must be

The Environment and Land Court struck out a historical land injustice petition because the claimant first had to finish the National Land Co

The Environment and Land Court in Malindi refused to let a landowner join a settled land petition after judgment, saying ownership disputes

Kenya's Environment and Land Court allowed a community group's public-land petition to proceed to full hearing, rejecting every attempt to t