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A Kenyan landowner lost his injunction bid simply because neither he nor his lawyer showed up to court on the hearing date.

Kenya's anti-corruption agency lost its bid to reclaim Isiolo land for a prison because it could not prove the land was ever reserved.

A late bid to strike out an appeal failed because Kenyan law allows only 30 days from service to file such an application.

The court refused to review its land judgment because the 'new' evidence was a known, older consent order that didn't even mention the dispu

Kenya's Environment and Land Court paused a land judgment's enforcement, letting a bank appeal — provided it deposits Kshs 500,000 security

A Kenyan land court refused to reinstate a dismissed property petition, warning that blaming your lawyer and filing duplicate cases can sink

Kenya's Court of Appeal cut a fatal accident dependency award to Kshs.405,473 and confirmed loss of consortium cannot be claimed when a spou

Kenya's Environment and Land Court reinstated a land suit dismissed after the plaintiffs' lawyer fell seriously ill, prioritising a fair hea

A Nanyuki court acquitted a man accused of stealing shoes because the prosecution couldn't prove he took them—suspicion alone is never enoug

A Narok court awarded a family Kshs 2,058,785 for a road death, but cut their claim because they lacked receipts and proof of the deceased's

A Kenyan court dismissed a contempt claim over land excavation because the applicants relied on a surveyor who was himself a party to the ca

A Nairobi Small Claims Court struck out a transport contract dispute, ruling that complex factual fights belong in the High Court or Magistr

A Mombasa court ruled a driver's dismissal was unfair because the employer gave contradictory reasons and followed no lawful procedure, awar

Kenya's Court of Appeal converted three ex-police officers' murder convictions to manslaughter and released them, ruling time already served

The Environment and Land Court in Eldoret dismissed an attempt to strike out a church's land trespass suit, confirming that trespass claims

Kenya's Court of Appeal refused to punish a landowner for contempt because the court order was vague, never personally served, and the land

A Bungoma court convicted a man of stealing building stones, ruling that loading stolen goods onto a lorry counts as taking them under Kenya

The Bishops own the Eldoret land, but Kenya Pipelines' underground pipes are protected as an overriding interest, so they stay.

Kenya's Court of Appeal refused to block a KPA tender award and declined to certify a Supreme Court appeal, confirming it loses power to gra

Kenya's Environment and Land Court dismissed an attempt to review its earlier ruling, holding that an appearance by the Attorney General cou

A Kenyan court has halted the Southlands affordable housing project in Lang'ata because construction began before the required environmental

A Voi Small Claims Court ordered a driver to pay an injured passenger Kshs. 920,550 after a rear-end crash, confirming passengers are never

Nairobi courts confirmed that a county cannot stop, close or threaten your construction without first serving you a written enforcement noti