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Khamis & 2 others v Kalume & 19 others
Court of AppealBrief[2024] KECA 1923 (KLR)2024-04-12Affirmed below…1923 (KLR) (12 April 2024) (Judgment) Neutral citation: [2024] KECA 1923 (KLR) REPUBLIC OF KENYA IN THE COURT OF APPEAL…
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Abdikadir Issack Ali & 2 others v Ahmed Hassan Omane & 2 others [2021] KEELC 3199 (KLR)
ELCBrief[2021] KEELC 3199 (KLR)2021-02-26Affirmed below…where the court found that the lower rather than the higher risk of injustice should guide the court called upon…
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Leonard Letitio Onetu & 2 others v Karasanka Ole Maai & 5 others [2021] KEELC 3678 (KLR)
ELCBrief[2021] KEELC 3678 (KLR)2021-04-08Set aside in part…47 of 2020. 3. That in the alternative this Honourable Court be pleased to issue an Order compelling the Respondents…
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Mohamed & another v Bader & 340 others (Environment & Land Petition 006 of 2021) [2024] KEELC 1 (KLR)
ELCBrief[2024] KEELC 1 (KLR)2024-01-15…The matter is pending at Msambweni court case no. E016 of 2020. On cross-examination the witness testified that the…
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Kudheiha Workers v Director Riara Group of Schools [2021] KEELRC 1823 (KLR)
ELRCBrief[2021] KEELRC 1823 (KLR)2021-04-23Set aside in part…This was exemplified in case of Lord Johnson v Grant 1923 SC 789 AT 790 where the court held that…
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Mkamenyi Farmers Co-operative Society Limited v Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning & 8 others (Environment & Land Case 015 of 2023) (Environment and Land) [2025] KEELC 3075 (KLR)
ELCBrief[2025] KEELC 3075 (KLR)2025-03-27…The superior courts are the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, the High Court and the courts referred to in…
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Apuko v County Assembly Of Homabay & 42 others (Constitutional Petition E030 of 2022) [2023] KEELRC 735 (KLR)
ELRCBrief[2023] KEELRC 735 (KLR)2023-03-23Affirmed below…higher than proof on a balance of probabilities…. Recourse ought not to be had to process of contempt of court…
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Khan & 2 others v Mtwawa & 6 others
ELCOriginal[2025] KEELC 8706 (KLR)2025-11-26…The matter is pending at Msambweni court case NO. E016 of 2020. On cross-examination the witness testied that the…
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Republic v County Secretary, Finance, ICT & Economic Planning County Government of Kiambu & another; Mungai (Suing as Legal Representative of the Estate of Anthony Mungai Kirika - Deceased) (Exparte Applicant) (Judicial Review Application 29 of 2018) [2023] KEELRC 3075 (KLR)
ELRCBrief[2023] KEELRC 3075 (KLR)2023-11-30Reversed below…That the culture of disobeying court orders and decisions has reached very high levels in Kenya and courts must exercise…
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Prairie Co-operative Society Limited v Kuria Gitonga & 7 others [2020] KEELC 2233 (KLR)
ELCBrief[2020] KEELC 2233 (KLR)2020-06-04Affirmed below…The jurisdiction of the High Court (or any other court for that matter) to punish for the violation of its…
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Republic v Export Processing Zones Authority & 2 others; London Distillers (K) Ltd & 3 others (Interested Parties) Ex parte Erdermann Property Limited [2020] KEELC 1228 (KLR)
ELCOriginal[2020] KEELC 1228 (KLR)2020-09-25…GRANT, 1923 SC 789 AT 790, the purpose of the law on contempt of court is not to protect the…
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Cherotich Kiprono Ruto v Reuben Kipngetich & 4 others [2020] KEELC 881 (KLR)
ELCBrief[2020] KEELC 881 (KLR)2020-10-29Affirmed below…The jurisdiction of the High Court (or any other court for that matter) to punish for the violation of its…
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Mohamed Bwana Bwanaadi & another v Rishad Abdulrehman Khator & 9 others; Fuad Mbarak Ali Ahmad & Salma Mbarak Ali (Intended Interested) (Cause 414 of 1996) [2021] KEELRC 2156 (KLR)
ELRCBrief[2021] KEELRC 2156 (KLR)2021-02-03Affirmed below…264 of 1961, the High Court decreed that Mohamed Khator Salim (as administrator of the estate of Khator Bin Salim…
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Kenya Union of Water & Sewerage Employees v Migori Water & Sanitation Co. Ltd & another (Cause 5 of 2021) [2022] KEELRC 1355 (KLR)
ELRCBrief[2022] KEELRC 1355 (KLR)2022-07-14Affirmed below…of high importance that orders of the courts should be obeyed, willful disobedience to an order of the court is…
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Sauda Said Rajab Juma (Suing on her own behalf and as the Attorney of Muhsin Said Rajab Juma and Omar Said Rajab) v Sadiki Feri, Nguma Katana Ngole, Abdalla Chembe, Kesi Saro Mae, Shukurani Kalume, Kasena Kalama, Kahindi Mae, Katana Mwatsuma, Jando Mwaponda, Patrick Chibarawa, Karsa Ngoma, Saidi Elija Bongo, Douglas Kalonzi, Anthony Tangai Kagia, Ngala Mwadende, Peter Tangai, David Nyunga, Tangai Braha, Benson Ngala Mwatunje, Jonathan Kahindi Ngala, Mwanyamba Ndire, David Munga Mwadende, County Commissioner, Kilifi & Registrar Of Lands, Kilifi; Aisha Bindi Rajab Juma, Khadija Binti Rajab Juma, Zainabu Binti Rajab Juma, Abu Abdalla Mohamed, Said Amin Athman, Mohamed Athman Omar, Ali Shariff Othman, Tarim Athman Omar, Hafswa Athman Omar, Hawa Shariff Athman, Shamsiya Shariff Athman, Twalib Swaleh Musa, Said Swaleh Musa & Shifeya Swaleh Musa(Interested Parties) (Environment & Land Case E17 of 2020) [2022] KEELC 1633 (KLR)
ELCBrief[2022] KEELC 1633 (KLR)2022-01-27Affirmed below…As the Court of Appeal reiterated in Nguruman Ltd -vs- Jan Bonde Nielsen & 2 Others CA No. 77 of 2012…
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Mathenge & 4 others v Rohim City of the Lord Churcн through tts Registered Trustees & 4 others (Environment and Land Petition E001 of 2025) [2026] KEELC 5205 (KLR)
ELCBrief[2026] KEELC 5205 (KLR)2026-07-22Affirmed below…reasonable apprehension that the court would be biased." 27. Litigants bear a high burden of proof in recusal applications, seeing…
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Navin Chander Raina v Social Services League, Mp Shah Hospital [2021] KEELRC 2088 (KLR)
ELRCOriginal[2021] KEELRC 2088 (KLR)2021-02-19Affirmed below…disobedience of the orders of this Honourable Court Orders issued on 30th September 2020. e. This Honourable Court be pleased…
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Bakery Confectionery Food Manufacturing & Allied Workers Union (K) v Brava Food Industries Limited; Bood & 2 others (Contemnor) (Cause E899 of 2022) [2025] KEELRC 2275 (KLR)
ELRCOriginal[2025] KEELRC 2275 (KLR)2025-07-31Set aside in part…2020, pursuant to a judgment of the Court delivered on 20th May 2020 in ELRC Cause No 431 of 2019…
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Tito Tirop (Suing as the Legal Representative of Philip Chepkwony) v Benjamin Tarus, Isaac Chepkwony, Dorcas Jemeli, Boaz Kosachtai & David Ngetich (Environment & Land Case 82 of 2016) [2021] KEELC 3917 (KLR)
ELCBrief[2021] KEELC 3917 (KLR)2021-03-23Affirmed below…or notice of the existence of the orders of the court forbidding it. The threshold is quite high as it…
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Meli v Rop (Environment & Land Case 598 of 2012) [2022] KEELC 2186 (KLR)
ELCBrief[2022] KEELC 2186 (KLR)2022-06-08…Proof of disobedience and intention to disobey is therefore mandatory ingredients of the ofience of contempt of court orders. It…