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ELCOtherELC Petition No. 5 of 2018 (as consolidated with ELC Pet. No. 6 of 2018 & ELC Pet. No. 7 of 2018)· [2019] KEELC 1317 (KLR)

Justice & Peace Center Kitale v National Land Commission & 3 others [2019] KEELC 1317 (KLR)

Environment and Land Court
16 October 2019
MNMwangi Njoroge
419 words in judgment
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The bottom line

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A Kitale court combined three land petitions challenging National Land Commission notices into one case for a single unified judgment.

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Executive summary

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This document from the Environment and Land Court at Kitale is a set of directions issued by Mwangi Njoroge, Judge, on 16 October 2019, in ELC Petition No. 5 of 2018 (Justice and Peace Center Kitale v National Land Commission & 3 Others). Upon examining three petitions filed at different times in 2018 - Petitions Nos. 5, 6 and 7 of 2018 - the court found that all three arose from newspaper advertisements of 17th and 23rd July 2018 issued by the National Land Commission, which the petitioners alleged threatened their interests in land within Block 6 and Block 7 of Kitale Municipality. All three petitions sought common prayers, chiefly that the decision embodied in the press notices be declared null and void, removed into the court and quashed. Because the petitions concerned land in the same blocks and sought similar prayers, the court ordered their consolidation for the purpose of one unified judgment, designated Petition No. 5 of 2018 as the lead file, directed all parties to conclude filing their documents so a judgment date could be fixed, and required the original headings to be retained with the words 'as consolidated with Petition … and …' added. The document is a procedural directions ruling only; it records no substantive findings on evidence or law and makes no final orders on the petitions themselves. No costs order was made, and no authorities were cited.

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    Court orders

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    1. 1.The three petitions (Nos. 5, 6 and 7 of 2018) be consolidated for the purpose of one unified judgment
    2. 2.All parties to conclude the filing of their documents in their respective matters so that a judgment date may be issued
    3. 3.Petition No. 5 of 2018 is the lead file
    4. 4.The original headings in the petitions shall be retained in the respective filed documents, save that the words 'as consolidated with Petition … and …' shall be added
    Jurisdiction invoked
    Not stated in this extract; petitions filed under the court's jurisdiction over land (Environment and Land Court at Kitale)

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    Later judgments citing this (1)

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    Judgments in the corpus that rely on this one. Where the Court said how it treated the authority, that is shown.

    Cite this brief

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    Cite this brief

    Caselaw, "Justice & Peace Center Kitale v National Land Commission & 3 others [2019] KEELC 1317 (KLR)", Case Analysis (2019). ELC Petition No. 5 of 2018 (as consolidated with ELC Pet. No. 6 of 2018 & ELC Pet. No. 7 of 2018). Source: https://new.kenyalaw.org/akn/ke/judgment/keelc/2019/1317/eng@2019-10-16

    Suggested citation format for research notes or client memos. Always verify the original judgment before relying on any point.