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Kenya's Court of Appeal refused to halt the 2007 Safaricom share sale, ruling it can only stay decisions made by the High Court, not governm

Kenya's Court of Appeal refused to stop the Safaricom IPO, ruling it can only stay a court's decisions, not government policy choices.

Kenya's Court of Appeal freed a death-row inmate because the High Court upheld his conviction without properly re-examining the evidence or

Kenya's Court of Appeal upheld a Kshs 300,000 award against three Dandora traders who demolished a church building, trusting the trial judge

Kenya's Court of Appeal voided a criminal trial prosecuted by an unqualified police officer, quashed the convictions, but ordered the men to

Kenya's Court of Appeal ruled that BAT Kenya failed to prove Cut Tobacco's 'Horseman' cigarettes infringed or passed off its 'Sportsman' bra

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed that a verbal agreement to sell land is unenforceable unless it is written, signed, or the buyer has taken

Kenya's Court of Appeal upheld a murder conviction and death sentence, ruling that a witness's recognition of a known person is reliable evi

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed that strong circumstantial evidence—without any eyewitness—can sustain a murder conviction when it points

Kenya's Court of Appeal freed one murder convict because suspicion alone isn't proof, but upheld the other's conviction because he was the l

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed that where an accused is caught at the crime scene, identification evidence can convict without an identif

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed that a witness recognising a familiar person, even from 150 metres away, is reliable enough to sustain a m

Kenya's Court of Appeal freed three men sentenced to death for murder, ruling the sole eyewitness's identification evidence was too unreliab

Kenya's Court of Appeal upheld a robbery conviction but quashed a separate malicious damage conviction because the stoning was part of the r

Kenya's Court of Appeal cut Omega Chemical's KSh 1.8 million claim against Barclays to the KSh 509,692 currency loss it actually proved.

Kenya's Court of Appeal ruled that summary judgment requires a clear legal claim and no genuine disputes—in this case, the council deserved

Kenya's Court of Appeal ruled it cannot re-open a decided appeal, even over bias claims, because no law gives it that power.

Kenya's Court of Appeal stopped a court order that would have kept the Embu Mayor in office after his council was dissolved ahead of nationa

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed it has no power to reopen a concluded appeal, even where a party alleges judicial bias, and struck out the

The Court of Appeal upheld a nearly Kshs.3 million award against an employer, ruling an incomplete appeal record and unsafe machinery left t

Kenya's Court of Appeal stopped a dissolved council's mayor from staying in office, ruling the dispute raised a serious national question ab

Kenya's Court of Appeal struck out an entire appeal because its record omitted key documents, and ordered the lawyer to personally pay costs

The Court of Appeal upheld striking out a legal costs bill because the winning party skipped the required draft-order approval step.

Kenya's Court of Appeal struck out three notices of appeal because a vague omnibus notice blocked later, more specific ones.

A Kenyan court threw out a lawyer's unpaid fees lawsuit because he never paid the filing fee — no fee means no valid case.