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Kenya's Court of Appeal replaced three death sentences with 10-year manslaughter terms, ruling that represented accused persons lose the rig

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed it cannot reopen or set aside its own decided judgments, striking out an attempt to revisit a 2005 ruling

Kenya's Court of Appeal stopped property dealings temporarily, but only after the borrowers paid Shs.1.5 million upfront — protecting buyers

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed it cannot re-open its own final judgments, so losing parties must look elsewhere — the motion was struck o

Kenya's Court of Appeal refused bail to a convicted person, confirming that bail pending appeal requires exceptional circumstances and stron

The Court of Appeal refused to stop a rival balloon operator because money losses can be calculated and repaid, so an injunction wasn't nece

Kenya's Court of Appeal froze execution of a High Court land ruling because even one arguable appeal point is enough to justify a stay.

Kenya's Court of Appeal ruled that evading service of an election petition backfires: you can be served anywhere, even at an airport after h

Kenya's Court of Appeal cut a road accident payout from Kshs.7.4 million to Kshs.6.9 million because parts of the claim lacked evidence, but

Kenya's Court of Appeal gave litigants another chance to salvage a struck-out appeal, but only with fresh notices and strict deadlines.

Kenya's Court of Appeal quashed a murder conviction because a discharged assessor was improperly allowed back into the trial, ordering a fre

Kenya's Court of Appeal dismissed four men's robbery appeal, confirming that witness recognition of known assailants is strong evidence and

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed a robbery conviction, ruling that five witnesses' recognition of the accused under bright lighting was rel

The Court of Appeal dismissed a bid to appeal late, finding the lengthy, unexplained delay and lack of a draft appeal too weak to excuse.

Kenya's Court of Appeal granted a company a second chance to appeal because it returned to court within one week of its earlier appeal being

Kenya's Court of Appeal struck out an appeal because the record omitted trial exhibits, ruling an incomplete record cannot be fixed with a s

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed that convicting someone of robbery with violence requires proof of only one of the law's ingredients, and

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed that strong eyewitness identification plus unexplained suspicious circumstances can sustain a robbery conv

Kenya's Court of Appeal freed one murder convict on reasonable doubt but confirmed another's death sentence, ruling that accused persons wit

The Court of Appeal gave a man nearly two years of missed appeal deadlines another chance because illness, poverty and violence explained th

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed that a child's truthful testimony alone, with recorded reasons, can sustain a defilement conviction even w

Kenya's Court of Appeal freed one man on doubt but confirmed another's death sentence, ruling that accused persons represented by lawyers lo

Kenya's Court of Appeal overturned two murder convictions because the trial assessors never heard all the evidence, but ordered a fresh tria