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Kenya's Court of Appeal dismissed a company's bid to punish rivals for contempt, ruling you cannot defy an order that did not yet exist.

The Court of Appeal refused to extend time for an appeal filed five months late, ruling that blaming a former advocate without proof is not

Kenya's Court of Appeal allowed a 39-day-late appeal notice, accepting a rural travel explanation, but warned against combining different co

Kenya's Court of Appeal gave a company five years late a chance to appeal, showing courts will forgive delay if the intention to appeal was

Kenya's Court of Appeal dismissed a litigant's late attempt to challenge a ruling, confirming that blaming your lawyer for delays won't save

Kenya's Court of Appeal dismissed Nairobi Water's fourth attempt to challenge an arbitral award, ruling that repeated applications on the sa

Kenya's Court of Appeal extended time to appeal a 2022 land ruling but left any request to stop enforcement to a full bench.

Honesty matters: a Kenyan company lost its appeal to overturn a judgment because the court found its explanation was not truthful.

Kenya's Court of Appeal excused Solfin Solutions' two-day late appeal filing but left its key requests to a full panel of judges.

The Court of Appeal allowed a late challenge to an inheritance ruling, confirming Kenyans need no special permission to appeal succession de

The Court of Appeal refused to let a family revive a ten-year-old inheritance dispute, ruling that delayed, dishonest explanations forfeit t

Kenya's Environment and Land Court at Kakamega has halted all mining and blasting in Lugari until a lawsuit over the quarry operations is fu

The Environment and Land Court in Kwale refused to freeze dealings over disputed land, finding the community claimants offered no evidence o

The Court of Appeal refused 34 applicants extra time to appeal a land case, saying they gave no convincing reason for missing the 14-day fil

The Court of Appeal refused to extend time to file an appeal record, ruling that delays caused by a litigant's own abusive parallel court ca

The Court of Appeal gave Kenya Red Cross more time to appeal a four-day filing delay, but criticised its mixed application and awarded costs

A Kenyan court ruled a sole surviving land co-owner can sue alone, refused to strike out the case over a summons technicality, but blocked a

Kenya's Court of Appeal allowed a two-day late appeal filing because the delay was short, explained, and fair to both sides.

Kenya's Court of Appeal ruled it cannot hear second appeals in succession disputes from Magistrates' Courts, because the High Court's decisi

A Kenyan land suit that lapsed after the plaintiff's death can still be revived — combining the necessary applications in one motion is vali

Court let part of the government's late filing stand but struck out a second response filed without permission.

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed that you no longer need permission (leave) to appeal family and succession cases — the right to appeal is

Kenya's Environment and Land Court let a company dispute appeal proceed out of time and paused three related lawsuits until the appeal is de

The Environment and Land Court refused to punish Kenya Railways pension scheme officials for contempt and allowed an affordable housing proj

A Kenyan court froze all dealings over disputed ancestral land in Kwale, ruling that suing a dead person is a fatal defect, though fraud cla