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A Kenyan court ruled that an advocate who accepted Ksh 19 million in agreed periodic fees cannot demand more through taxation.

Kenya's Court of Appeal allowed Sengwer community appellants to add a 2025 land commission decision as new evidence in their Embobut Forest

A Kenyan court refused to let an appellant add new-evidence grounds to his appeal, ruling that documents never presented at trial cannot sup

Kenya's Environment and Land Court reinstated a dismissed village land suit, but only after the residents pay Kshs. 250,000 in thrown-away c

A Kenyan court allowed a pension scheme to re-open its case to prove it had the legal right to sue, despite unexplained delay.

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

A Mombasa court allowed a landowner to add government officials and companies to a long-running land case, showing remitted cases can gain n

A Kenyan court ruled an employee's dismissal unfair because her employer hid key evidence and let a biased investigator hear her appeal, awa

A Kenyan court refused a mid-trial request for a fresh forensic examination, ruling that changing lawyers does not reset a case or fix years

KeNHA lost its bid to introduce new documents in its land compensation appeal because the ownership dispute they concerned had already been

A Makueni court allowed defendants to add key land documents mid-trial because the plaintiff's own testimony opened the door, and any unfair

Kenya's Environment and Land Court allowed a party to add a new witness before trial, confirming courts prioritise full evidence over strict

Kenya's Environment and Land Court refused to reopen a 7-year-old land case because the applicants delayed unreasonably and tried to patch h

A Mombasa court refused to review a landlord-tenant judgment, confirming that losing parties cannot use review to relitigate legal arguments

Kenya's Environment and Land Court allowed landowners to add a surveyor's report as evidence after state agencies introduced new documents l

A Nakuru court ordered an advocate to repay Kshs.2.7 million, confirming that oral money agreements are enforceable in Kenya if you can prov

A Kenyan court ruled that disputed road-acquisition compensation should be held in a special account, and a rival land claimant was allowed

Kenya's Environment and Land Court refused a landowner's late attempt to expand his defence, ruling it was designed to delay an access-road

A Kenyan buyer who paid in full and occupied land for over 12 years won ownership through adverse possession, even against the seller's esta

Del Monte's bid to jail seven Kenyan farmers for defying a land injunction failed, but the court ordered police to enforce the injunction an

A Kenyan land court allowed a defendant to add new evidence mid-trial, but made her pay costs first or lose the permission.

A Kenyan land court let a defendant reopen his case to call witnesses, but refused to amend pleadings or recall the other side's witnesses.

Kenya's Court of Appeal gave a company 14 days to join an appeal after an 18-month delay, but said a single judge cannot grant stays of proc

Kenya's Court of Appeal allowed a litigant to add new documents mid-trial, ruling that evidence rules are applied flexibly, not as a rigid c

A Mombasa court allowed a Kenyan estate to add newly discovered properties, but only the deceased's share of a family business counts, and h