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The court dismissed a land ownership challenge because the plaintiffs skipped the Land Adjudication Act's objection process and went straigh

The Environment and Land Court in Eldoret confirmed a landowner's title, voided a Gazette Notice cancellation, and evicted the deceased sell

The Environment and Land Court dismissed Northview Estate residents' bid to stop apartment construction in Utawala, ruling their association

A Nairobi court has frozen all dealings with two Kariokor properties after a son claimed they belonged to his late parents, protecting them

Kenya's Employment Court quashed an ODPP transfer issued during an employee's leave without notice, ruling employers must follow their own t

A Kenyan court refused to reopen an estate distribution ruling and confirmed two grandchildren can now collect rent from ground floor rooms.

A Kenyan court dismissed a family's medical negligence claim over a loved one's death, ruling that a bad medical outcome alone does not prov

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

The Environment and Land Court in Meru froze all dealings on a disputed parcel, protecting a family claiming decades-long adverse possession

A Kenyan court dismissed a woman's 40-year land claim because she couldn't prove her occupation was without the owner's permission.

The Environment and Land Court in Meru dismissed a family's bid to block dealings in two Ruiri/Rwarera plots, finding no genuine claim and n

Kenya's Court of Appeal refused to pause a matrimonial property judgment because the applicant showed no irreversible harm, and both lawyers

A Kenyan court awarded a land buyer 4.9 acres by adverse possession, but dismissed the family's eviction suit because they had no grant for

A Siaya court ruled that a land caution filed without proof of any real claim is unlawful, and undoing it mid-suit doesn't end the case.

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

The Environment and Land Court at Kilgoris rejected attempts to throw out the Oloirien Group Ranch land suit, ruling the objections mixed la

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 Kenyan court cancelled ten land titles because a husband sold the family home without his wife's consent, and buyers failed to check prope

A Nakuru court halved a fatal accident award because the family couldn't prove the pedestrian was on a zebra crossing, recovering Kshs.753,9

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 awarded a deceased student's family KShs 1.65 million after the lorry owner's defence collapsed because witnesses contradicte

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 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 confirmed you cannot claim land under a court agreement you never honoured, and the buyer who developed it keeps it.