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A lender suing to recover Kshs. 298,500 lost in Kenya's Small Claims Court because her paperwork didn't prove the loan, and was ordered to pay Kshs. 93,800.60 back instead.
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The court let a pension scheme dispute proceed with an amended claim, but refused the injunction and document orders because the wrong legal procedures were used.
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A Mombasa court allowed a landowner to add the property's new registered owner, the Land Registrar and the Attorney General to her ownership dispute.
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A Kenyan court ruled that an arbitration clause in property leases cannot remove its jurisdiction, and parties who delay invoking arbitration lose that right.
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A Kenyan court struck out a land claim against a company in liquidation because the claimants never got the required court permission to continue their case.
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Kenya Power must pay a former employee Ksh. 3.9 million after failing to properly oppose a workplace injury award adopted as a court judgment.
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Kenya's Employment Court ruled that a time-bar defence based on disputed promises to pay must be proven with evidence at trial, not struck out early.
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Kenya's Employment Court excused a worker's mistaken deadline calculation, giving him 14 days to appeal, but made him pay costs for the avoidable application.
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A Kenyan court sent a county HR director's employment dispute to the Public Service Commission but protected her job, salary and position in the meantime.
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Kenya's Employment Court confirmed that work injury compensation claims must be made against the employer, not the insurance company.
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Kenya's Employment Court confirmed it cannot extend the three-year deadline for filing employment contract claims, even where criminal charges caused the delay.
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A Kenyan court ruled that locking an employee out of work and stopping pay counts as unfair termination, awarding the worker over Ksh. 924,000.
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Kenya's Employment Court ruled that whether someone was truly your employer must be decided at trial, not thrown out early on a technicality.
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A Kenyan court allowed a citizen to seek a mandamus order forcing the Ministry of Education to pay a court-awarded debt of over Kshs. 1.4 million.
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A Kenyan employer's bid to cut a worker's award failed, but the court corrected the decree to include Kshs. 35,000 in service pay, raising the total to Kshs. 367,080.
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Kenya's Employment Court struck out a constitutional petition, confirming employment disputes must start as a Memorandum of Claim, not a petition.
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A Kenyan court ruled a teacher's dismissal unfair because his school never invited him to a disciplinary hearing or let him question his accusers.
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A Kenyan worker won Ksh. 1.86 million for a workplace injury, but the court refused to make the employer's insurer pay directly.
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Kenya's Environment and Land Court dismissed a society's third attempt to stop eviction, ruling the matter was already decided and compensation claims remain open.
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A Kisumu court refused a landowner's late appeal because his lawyer's knowledge counted as his own and the delay went unexplained.
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The Environment and Land Court dismissed Northview Estate residents' bid to stop apartment construction in Utawala, ruling their association lacked proper standing and their evidence was too weak.
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A Siaya court let a late land appeal proceed despite a weak excuse, prioritising the right to be heard over strict deadlines.
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The court dismissed a land ownership challenge because the plaintiffs skipped the Land Adjudication Act's objection process and went straight to court.
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A Kenyan court threw out a land dispute challenge filed nearly three years late, confirming the six-month deadline for judicial review is strict.
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The Environment and Land Court in Garissa temporarily stopped quarrying on disputed Mandera land, but only for sixty days while the appeal is fast-tracked.
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A Kenyan landowner who missed his appeal deadline due to depression got more time, and his eviction was stopped pending the appeal.
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A Kenyan court ruled that an estate administrator who loses a lawsuit must pay the legal costs personally, but the winning side's attempt to seize his land was struck out for skipping required steps.
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A Kenyan court confirmed that only the Land Registrar can fix land boundaries, and granted an injunction against a neighbour who encroached.
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Kenya's Environment and Land Court refused to step aside from a land dispute, ruling that disagreeing with a judge's earlier finding is not proof of bias.
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A Makueni landowner won extra time to appeal, a freeze on execution, and a bar on new land titles while his appeal is heard.
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A Makueni landowner won extra time to appeal, plus orders freezing land subdivision and title issuance until his appeal is heard.
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The Makueni Environment and Land Court refused to join a man claiming land ownership to the case because he produced no real evidence of his stake.
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A woman who openly lived on and farmed Ruiru land for nearly 40 years won ownership through adverse possession, even though the title was in someone else's name.
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A Kenyan court upheld a Kshs 1.18 million fee award against a client who denied hiring the lawyer, confirming that a retainer can be proven from conduct.
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Kenya's Environment and Land Court confirmed it cannot extend the twelve-year deadline for land claims, dismissing buyers' bid to sue over a 2008 land sale.
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A Kenyan court refused to pause a land judgment because the appellant showed no real evidence of the loss he claimed.
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The Environment and Land Court in Makueni dismissed a family land claim, confirming that land bought during adjudication does not need succession papers first.
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Kenya's Environment and Land Court ruled that access to public parks is a constitutional right and ordered Central Park reopened immediately.
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The Environment and Land Court dismissed an appeal over a Ruiru plot, confirming that a buyer who traces her title through company records beats a competing claimant.
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The Environment and Land Court in Eldoret confirmed a landowner's title, voided a Gazette Notice cancellation, and evicted the deceased seller's family.
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A Makueni court has temporarily blocked the National Land Commission from implementing recommendations that would have forced a landowner to surrender acreage and pay compensation.
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A Homa Bay court protected a family's 26-year occupation of disputed land but refused to halt succession proceedings, ruling each court must stay in its lane.
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A Kenyan court confirmed that a title deed alone doesn't prove land encroachment, and boundary disputes must first go to the Land Registrar, not the courts.
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A Kenyatta University employee won temporary protection from eviction pending appeal, but only if he keeps paying rent and clears all arrears within 60 days.
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A Kenyan court ruled an employee who resigned over workplace harassment gets only unpaid leave and a service certificate, not millions in damages.
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Kenya's Employment Court quashed an ODPP transfer issued during an employee's leave without notice, ruling employers must follow their own transfer policies.
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A Nairobi court awarded a pedestrian Kshs.2.5 million after a reversing vehicle knocked him down, but cut his claimed expenses because they weren't properly pleaded.
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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 prove negligence.
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A Murang'a court stopped stone-crushing on disputed land but refused to order the crusher operator out, saying such orders can't be granted before a full trial.
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A Kenyan court awarded a seven-year-old boy Kshs. 617,900 after a driver who hit him failed to prove the crash was unavoidable.
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A Murang'a court revoked a grant that used dead beneficiaries' signatures and wrongly claimed the deceased fully owned co-shared Nairobi properties.
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A Kenyan court refused to reopen an estate distribution ruling and confirmed two grandchildren can now collect rent from ground floor rooms.
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A Nairobi court ordered a father to pay KES 5,000 monthly for his child's food, ruling that equal parental responsibility doesn't mean equal money.
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Kenya's Court of Appeal gave five teachers more time to appeal, ruling that litigants cannot be punished for delays caused by the court's own registry.
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Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed that pursuing a review does not stop the 14-day appeal deadline, so litigants must file a cautionary notice of appeal.
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Kenya's Court of Appeal gave a family more time to file their appeal after a simple filing mistake, protecting their right to be heard.
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Kenya's Environment and Land Court dismissed a landowner's appeal, confirming that court orders made without jurisdiction are void and cannot be saved by consent.
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A Nakuru court ordered a long-time land occupier to leave within 60 days because fighting over the land in court stopped his adverse possession claim from succeeding.
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A Kenyan landowner who builds on a neighbour's plot based on his own belief about the boundary lost his appeal and must pay costs.
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A Kenyan court confirmed that plot cards and allotment letters are not proof of land ownership, dismissing the appeal with costs.
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A Kenyan court dismissed both a mother's fraud claim and her daughters' trust claim over family land, leaving everyone's titles intact and nobody paying costs.
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Kenya's Environment and Land Court struck out a land dispute because the same claim had already been decided, confirming you only get one chance to sue.
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A Meru landowner abandoned his land case mid-trial and must pay the government defendants' costs, ending the dispute without a judgment.
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A Kenyan court refused to strike out a land appeal over missing documents, ruling the gap could be fixed by filing a supplementary record.
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Kenya's Environment and Land Court refused to dismiss a 13-year-old land suit because the bank seeking dismissal had itself caused the delay through its own stay application.
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A Kenyan land court refused to force a housing company to hand over extra details and declined to release an original title before a full hearing.
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Kenya's Environment and Land Court struck out a railway land petition because its issues had already been decided in an earlier case.
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Kenya's Environment and Land Court sent a property dispute to arbitration because the sale agreement's arbitration clause had to be used first.
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The Environment and Land Court refused to pause the Karen land petition, ruling that defending a case is not enough harm to justify a stay.
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A Nairobi court has frozen all dealings with two Kariokor properties after a son claimed they belonged to his late parents, protecting them until the ownership dispute is fully heard.
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Kenya's Environment and Land Court struck out a land-sale refund suit, holding that rescission turns the claim into a money dispute for ordinary courts.
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Kenya's Environment and Land Court confirmed it cannot extend the six-year deadline for contract claims, and dismissed a landowner's late attempt to sue over an unpaid property balance.
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A Kenyan court gave Nyamira County more time to challenge a Ksh. 57.6 million legal fees bill, but refused to hand over the money yet.
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Kenya's Environment and Land Court dismissed a land appeal because the appellant filed an incomplete record, showing courts will not hear appeals missing key documents.
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A Kenyan court ruled that an advocate who accepted Ksh 19 million in agreed periodic fees cannot demand more through taxation.
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Kenya's Environment and Land Court confirmed it can extend deadlines for land adjudication appeals, and froze a disputed boundary decision until the appeal is heard.
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A Kenyan court dismissed a woman's 40-year land claim because she couldn't prove her occupation was without the owner's permission.
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Kenya's Employment Court blocked a university from permanently filling its Vice Chancellor post while a dismissed professor's reinstatement case is decided.
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Kenya's Employment Court refused to reopen a Kshs. 35 million judgment against Golden Lion International, ruling that disagreements with a decision belong on appeal, not review.
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A Kenyan employment court ruled it cannot reopen a finished case, sending all remaining applications—including cost taxation—to the Court of Appeal.
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A Nakuru court awarded a road accident victim KShs 450,000 after the defendants offered no evidence, but cut her medical expense claim to only what receipts proved.
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A Kenyan court ruled that outsourcing a worker without protecting his agreed terms amounted to unfair termination, awarding him over Kshs. 271,000.
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A Kenyan court cut a KShs. 384,120 group loan claim to about KShs. 109,200 because the lender never specified who owed what.
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A Kilifi court awarded a woman Kshs 1 million after finding her criminal prosecution was malicious, confirming that withdrawn charges can count as vindication.
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A Nakuru court refused to grant a divorce because it found no legally recognised marriage existed between the couple in the first place.
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Kenya's Court of Appeal excused a two-year filing delay by imprisoned appellants, showing courts prioritise substantive justice over strict deadlines.
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Kenya's Court of Appeal allowed a prisoner to appeal ten years late, ruling that justice outweighs missed deadlines in criminal cases.
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The Court of Appeal dismissed a second attempt to extend appeal time because the applicant hid his earlier failed application and never explained why he ignored the court's order.
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Kenya's Court of Appeal gave a company a second chance to file its appeal on time, showing courts prefer deciding cases on merit over punishing procedural slips.
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Kenya's Court of Appeal allowed a late land appeal, ruling that delays caused by waiting for certified court documents are excusable.
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Kenya's Court of Appeal allowed a company extra time to file its appeal because delays in getting court documents, not laziness, caused the holdup.
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A Meru court struck out a land dispute application because it was filed years before the order it tried to reverse, though the applicant can try again properly.
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A woman who openly lived on and farmed 1.5 acres for over 20 years won ownership of that land in Kenya's Environment and Land Court.
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A Kenyan court struck out a man's adverse possession claim against his own family, ruling family land is held under customary trust, not open to hostile takeover.
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A Kenyan court ruled that a land dispute is not automatically barred just because someone else previously litigated over the same parcel of land.
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Buyers of plots from unverified sellers lost their land, paid Kshs 2 million in damages, and were ordered to vacate within 90 days.
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A Kenyan land buyer's suit survived a time-limit challenge because fraud claims only start the clock when the fraud is discovered.
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The Environment and Land Court struck out a matrimonial property suit, ruling it had no jurisdiction and that such a case cannot simply be transferred elsewhere.
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Kenya's Environment and Land Court confirmed it had jurisdiction over a Kshs 7.15 million land dispute but chose to transfer the case to the Magistrate's Court.
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The Environment and Land Court in Meru froze all dealings on a disputed parcel, protecting a family claiming decades-long adverse possession.
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A Kenyan court halted an EPZ project because the government started construction without consulting residents or completing an environmental assessment first.
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Kenya's Environment and Land Court ruled that only a deceased estate's administrator can sue for it, so beneficiary family members were blocked from joining the land case.
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The Environment and Land Court dismissed Lucky Kai's appeal, confirming that skipping your own trial hearing and failing to present evidence can cost you your case and the property.
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A Kenyan court refused to extend time to appeal because the applicant delayed nearly five months without explanation and showed no viable appeal.
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Kenya's Environment and Land Court ruled that a preliminary objection cannot be used to decide disputed facts about land ownership, reviving the family's land case.
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A Kenyan land court dismissed an attempt to revive a dead man's power of attorney and re-litigate an already-decided evidence request.
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A Kenyan court ordered land sellers who took full payment but never transferred the land to refund everything, pay extra damages, and stop selling land.
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A Kenyan land court froze three disputed Machakos plots but refused to evict anyone or hand final victory before a full trial.
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A Kenyan court ruled that someone who openly occupies and farms land for over 12 years without the owner's objection can legally become its owner.
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Kenya's Environment and Land Court ruled an unregistered community association can sue to challenge foreign land ownership, and the case will proceed to a full hearing.
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A Kenyan court refused to block land dealings but froze the property's status quo, showing courts can preserve disputed land even when an injunction fails.