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If a court has not formally decided a specific legal issue, you cannot be stopped from arguing it in a new lawsuit.

If your land dispute is tied to an inheritance case, you must raise all related grievances within that inheritance case, not in a separate l

The High Court refused to strike out a claim as res judicata because the earlier court had no power to hear it.

Kenya's Employment Court excused a worker's mistaken deadline calculation, giving him 14 days to appeal, but made him pay costs for the avoi

Kenya's Environment and Land Court struck out a land dispute because the same claim had already been decided, confirming you only get one ch

Kenya's Environment and Land Court ruled an unregistered community association can sue to challenge foreign land ownership, and the case wil

A Kenyan court ruled that suing someone in the wrong capacity is a fixable mistake, not a fatal one, allowing a land dispute to continue.

A Kenyan employer appealing an unfair termination award only got a conditional stay: it must pay part of the money now and secure the rest w

A Kenyan court ruled that when jointly owned land is involved, a co-owner's death does not pause a land case because the land automatically

A Kenyan court allowed an employee's pension claim against Postal Corporation of Kenya to proceed, rejecting arguments that insolvency proce

A Kenyan court ruled that secretly recorded work conversations can be used as evidence if the recorder took part in the conversation.

A Kenyan court dismissed a decades-old employment claim because filing a constitutional petition cannot escape the Employment Act's strict t

Kenya's Employment Court refused to review its earlier ruling because the applicant had already appealed, so the recruitment process continu

Kenya's Environment and Land Court reinstated a dismissed village land suit, but only after the residents pay Kshs. 250,000 in thrown-away c

The Employment Court ruled that two Nyamira county employees could sue after the Public Service Commission dismissed their appeals without d

A Kenyan court struck out a gratuity claim filed 23 years late, confirming that delay in filing employment claims cannot be excused.

Kenya's Employment Court refused to gag MTN from speaking about a former employee, ruling that private defamation disputes belong in ordinar

The Court of Appeal refused six applicants a second chance to seek Supreme Court review, ruling their repeat application was barred and an a

Kenya's Court of Appeal refused a second attempt to extend time to appeal, ruling the matter was already decided and cannot be relitigated.

Kenya's Environment and Land Court dismissed attempts to strike out a land dispute early, ruling that limitation and res judicata claims nee

A Kenyan court dismissed a union's recognition claim because the union's registered constitution did not cover the employer's industry secto

Kenya's Employment Court confirmed it can hear low-salary employment claims, dismissing an employer's attempt to block a worker's case.