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Kenya's Environment and Land Court moved a land dispute from the Magistrates' Court because magistrates cannot decide adverse possession cla

Kenya's Court of Appeal ruled that a buyer who paid in full and occupied agricultural land owns it, even without Land Control Board consent.

A Bungoma court ordered a widow and her in-laws to jointly run the deceased man's school and accounts rather than shutting either side out.

The Environment and Land Court in Murang'a confirmed that a land buyer who paid in full and moved in decades ago cannot be evicted by the se

Kenya's Environment and Land Court in Homa Bay reversed a dismissed land suit, ordering transfer of the disputed plot to the buyer's estate

Kenya's Environment and Land Court dismissed an appeal over a 2004 land sale, confirming claims to force a land transfer die after six years

A 2005 land buyer without a title transfer still won in Kenya's Environment and Land Court, which ruled equity beats a missing Land Control

Kenya's Environment and Land Court confirmed you cannot buy land from a beneficiary of a deceased person's estate before the estate grant is

The Court of Appeal refused to stop Absa Bank from acting on its sale notice because the family home can be valued and compensated with mone

Kenya's Environment and Land Court confirmed that a land buyer who paid and took possession keeps the land, even without Land Control Board

A Kenyan court found two family members in contempt for defying orders banning them from collecting rent, and directed all tenants to pay re

A Kenyan court refused to order a company to hand over payment evidence, ruling that parties must gather their own proof using court summons

A Kenyan court ruled that a man who farmed land believing it was his won through a trust, not adverse possession.

The Environment and Land Court confirmed that a buyer who paid for land and occupied it for over 30 years keeps it, even without a written c

A Kenyan court ruled that a land company share certificate can prove ownership, awarding the plot holder an injunction and Sh1 million damag

The Land Court in Kitale refused to let a man join an estate dispute late in the day, ruling his own earlier sworn testimony blocked his new

A Kenyan court ordered a land seller to transfer plots to buyers even without a written sale agreement, because the buyers proved they paid

A Kenyan court enforced an agricultural land sale even without Land Control Board consent, because the seller took full payment and let buye

Kenya's ELC in Eldoret ruled that magistrates' courts cannot hear adverse possession cases, and a case filed in the wrong court cannot simpl

A Kenyan court ruled that land belonging to a deceased person cannot be sold before succession is completed, and evicted the buyers.

Kenya's Environment and Land Court confirmed it can hear disputes over irregular sales of charged land, dismissing an attempt to strike out

The Environment and Land Court in Kisii ruled that land belonging to a deceased person cannot be validly sold before succession is completed

Kenya's Environment and Land Court confirmed it cannot hear mortgage or charge disputes; such cases belong in the High Court, and wrongly-fi

Kenya's Environment and Land Court struck out a mortgage dispute appeal, confirming such cases belong in the High Court, not the ELC.