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The High Court in Nakuru dismissed a petition alleging mismanagement of Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital funds because the petitioner

The High Court dismissed a Kshs. 45 million credit-listing petition, ruling that a bank-customer dispute belongs in a civil suit, not a cons

If you default on a loan secured by property, the court will likely uphold the bank's right to sell the asset if they follow the Land Act ru

Introducing new evidence on appeal is difficult; you must prove you could not have found it through reasonable effort.

When a statutory body ignores your claim, the court can compel them to act, but it cannot order the payment itself.

Regulatory bodies may be struck out of lawsuits if their general oversight role is not essential to the court's specific decision.

The High Court refused to stop a bank from selling a borrower's charged properties because he could not prove the bank broke the Land Act ru

The High Court refused to reopen a judgment holding a company liable for a road accident, ruling that evidence it had all along could not ju

A Kenyan High Court froze changes to a company's ownership records during a shareholder dispute, but refused to reinstate the ousted directo

Kenya's High Court stopped auction of a hospital's equipment, ruling execution must follow the appeal judgment and medical tools of trade ar

The High Court refused to reopen its own judgment, ruling that a company's internal communication failures do not justify review of a conclu

If you are served legal papers correctly, you must respond quickly and with a real defense, or you risk losing the case by default.

Kenya's High Court struck out two Small Claims Court suits because the claimants wrongly sued through their company and split one claim into

Old court judgments can still be enforced if the debtor hides assets or if the court file was lost.

Kenya's Employment Court ruled a trade union must pay former members Kshs. 400,000 each for secretly settling their case without telling the

Kenya's Environment and Land Court gave a late appellant 10 more days to appeal, but refused to stop execution because the dismissed case co

The Environment and Land Court struck out a land dispute filed as a constitutional petition, ruling that fraud claims over land title must b

Kenya's Land Court added a buyer to an adverse possession suit and blocked land dealings, but refused to stop use because the claimant misse

Kenya's Employment Court allowed a union into a rights case, but only as an Interested Party, not a Respondent.

Defaulting on a loan makes it very difficult to convince a Kenyan court to stop the sale of your property.

Always seek the arbitrator's permission before escalating an arbitration dispute to the High Court.

If you miss an appeal deadline, the High Court of Kenya may still allow you to file it if you can prove the delay was unavoidable.

Missing court deadlines is risky; courts will deny you a chance to defend yourself if the delay is unexplained and the claim is for a fixed