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A Kenyan court refused to pause an advocates' fee dispute because the company missed the 60-day deadline to actually file its appeal.
A Kenyan land court can still pause its own ruling and case after an appeal is filed, and it did exactly that here.
Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed employers can sue employees for fraud in the Employment Court, and a former bank officer must repay Kshs.4
Kenya's Employment Court in Machakos confirmed it can hear work injury cases regardless of county, dismissing an employer's jurisdictional o
Kenya's Environment and Land Court ruled that land ownership disputes must be decided by the ELC first, not paused for succession cases.
Kenya's Environment and Land Court confirmed it can hear a property buyer's claim even where the deal started as a company investment.
Kenya's Environment and Land Court voided a magistrate's stay orders, confirming lower courts cannot block execution of a superior court's j
Kenya's Environment and Land Court struck out a succession citation, confirming inheritance matters belong exclusively to the High Court.
A Kenyan magistrates' court struck out a 2025 attempt to enforce a 1996 land judgment because the 12-year legal deadline for enforcing judgm
Kenya's Environment and Land Court cannot decide who inherits family land; such disputes must go to the High Court's succession division.
Kenya's Environment and Land Court confirmed magistrates can decide land disputes even when filed at the civil registry, and dismissed an ab
Kenya's Environment and Land Court ruled it cannot hear cases about loan defaults and property sold to recover debt—those belong in the High
A Kenyan court confirmed only the Environment and Land Court can decide adverse possession claims, but saved a wrongly-filed case by transfe
Kenya's Environment and Land Court ruled it cannot hear appeals from the Small Claims Court; such appeals go to the High Court.
Kenya's Environment and Land Court confirmed magistrates cannot decide adverse possession claims, transferring a Kapsabet land suit for prop
Kenya's Environment and Land Court struck out a boundary wall dispute because the land registrar—not the court—must first determine boundari
A Kapsabet court voided a magistrate's adverse possession ruling but confirmed the sale of one acre of land and ordered its transfer to the
Kenya's Environment and Land Court struck out a land suit because boundary disputes over general boundaries must first go to the Land Regist
The Environment and Land Court struck out a land dispute because complaints about how a deceased person's estate was shared must go back to
Kenya's Environment and Land Court confirmed it can hear lease disputes involving rent collection and eviction, dismissing the defendants' a
Kenya's Environment and Land Court dismissed a preliminary objection seeking to strike out a 2002 land sale claim, ruling it required disput
A Kenyan court threw out a land judgment because the magistrate lacked authority to hear a case worth over Kshs. 66 million.
Kenya's High Court confirmed that filing a land case in the wrong town is not fatal - the case can simply be moved to a more convenient cour
The Small Claims Court in Mombasa sent a wrongly-filed case to Nairobi instead of dismissing it, confirming transfer—not strike-out—is the f
Kenya's Mombasa Small Claims Court ruled that claiming Kshs. 719,565 was lawful because the supplier filed only one case, not split claims.