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Kenya's Employment Court struck out a challenge to a public recruitment process, ruling it can only hear disputes after an actual employment

The Mombasa Environment and Land Court dismissed a public-interest petition challenging a Port Reitz title, ruling the dispute belonged in o

A Kenyan court set aside its own judgment because a key party was never told about the case, confirming that hiding proceedings from affecte

The Environment and Land Court in Kwale dismissed families' claims that Kwale International Sugar Company occupied their ancestral land, rul

Kenya's Environment and Land Court in Mombasa dismissed a review application, confirming that disagreements over a judge's legal reasoning b

Kenya's government must now resettle or compensate Naivasha flood victims after a court ruled its years of inaction violated their constitut

The Environment and Land Court dismissed traders' bid to stop demolition of their Voi market stalls because they couldn't prove ownership or

A Nairobi court ruled the Nairobi River corridor land dispute is too important for one judge, sending it to the Chief Justice to appoint a l

The Machakos Environment and Land Court dismissed a petition over home demolitions because the occupants brought no evidence to prove their

Kenya's Employment Court dismissed a bid to force employers to hand over staff records, ruling that access to information demands proper leg

A Kenyan employment court reinstated a worker's dismissed lawsuit, ruling his lawyer's honest mistake about a hearing date should not cost h

Kenya's Court of Appeal gave late appellants 14 days to file their appeal after a missing court file and witness-protection delays explained

Kenya's Environment and Land Court declared that Mombasa public utility land fraudulently sold to private buyers remains public land, cancel

Kenya's Environment and Land Court struck a bank out of a land petition because the group suing never claimed anything against it.

A Mombasa court froze five disputed land titles after the titleholders subdivided the property despite existing court orders, and refused to

Kenya's Environment and Land Court in Mombasa dismissed attempts to strike out a public-interest land petition and to undo a protective inju

A Kenyan court refused to let an NGO join a land appeal because supporting a party is not the same as having a personal stake in the outcome

Kenya's Employment Court refused to stop the Kenya Prisons Service recruitment, letting it continue while a discrimination petition is heard

Kenya's Environment and Land Court refused to pause a costs taxation pending appeal, ruling that taxation itself causes no substantial loss

A Kenyan court struck out a school's land claim filed as a constitutional petition, ruling that ownership disputes belong in an ordinary sui

A Kenyan employment court set aside its own judgment because a government filing-system glitch hid the State's filed defence documents from

Kenya's Employment Court struck out an NGO's bid to access employees' pay records, ruling employee privacy beats outsiders' information righ

The High Court refused to halt KTDA's recruitment of a CEO and 164 other positions, finding the petitioner showed no real legal basis for bl