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A Kenyan title deed alone won't save your land if someone proves it was transferred to defeat an existing court order.

A Kenyan court refused to block future nurses' strikes, ruling the dispute was already settled and courts cannot issue orders about problems

A widow won back her family's Moyale plot on appeal, with KES 3 million damages, eviction orders and costs against relatives who held only a

The Court of Appeal dismissed 47 County Secretaries' challenge to the SRC's power to set their pay grades, finding no proof of rights violat

A concluded land dispute stays closed — Kenya's Court of Appeal rejected an attempt to re-argue it through a fresh constitutional petition.

The Environment and Land Court in Homa Bay struck out a land suit because it re-opened a dispute already decided by a tribunal and adopted b

Kenya's Environment and Land Court quashed Narok County's approval of a new Maasai Mara hot air balloon business because the county failed t

A lawyer challenging a costs ruling in Kenya lost because they skipped the mandatory step of objecting in writing and obtaining the taxing o

A Kenyan court confirmed that a buyer who paid for land and occupied it openly owns it, even without Land Control Board consent.

A Nairobi court cancelled a landowner's title because the company claimed land allocated before it even existed, handing ownership to Bakhre

A Kenyan court struck out a claim for unpaid tribunal costs because the claimant skipped mandatory steps for enforcing decrees against the G

A Kenyan court struck out a man's bid to force the National Irrigation Authority to pay him, because he never properly served key documents

Winning a land case in Kenya still requires proving your claims with evidence — even an uncontested counterclaim failed here because no proo

The Environment and Land Court refused to add a fuel company and a law firm to a land dispute because they showed no personal stake in the c

Environment Court can hear mining pollution cases even if alternative dispute process exists.

A Kenyan court set aside a lawyer's fee taxation because the taxing officer couldn't explain how the figures were calculated, ordering a fre

The Environment and Land Court in Siaya stopped the eviction of a woman from land she has occupied and developed for eighteen years, pending

A Kericho court blocked land sale and eviction attempts, protecting a tea farmer's possession until the full case is heard.

The High Court upheld a Kshs. 900,000 fee award, ruling that courts rarely interfere with a taxing officer's decision unless a clear error o

A Kenyan landowner lost his title over inconsistent documents but still won damages because authorities demolished his fence without notice.

Supreme Court orders Parliament to enact laws for local tribunals without unreasonable delay, but cancels court supervision.

A Kenyan court ruled that a county government must pay Kshs. 350,000 for unlawfully demolishing a man's house, even if it stood on a road re

Kenya's High Court cut a Kshs. 378 million legal fee assessment, ruling that non-money lawsuits like injunctions cannot be used to inflate l

The Environment and Land Court refused to revive a land suit dismissed four years earlier, holding that litigants who sit on their cases can