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A lender suing to recover Kshs. 298,500 lost in Kenya's Small Claims Court because her paperwork didn't prove the loan, and was ordered to p

Kenya's Environment and Land Court confirmed it cannot extend the twelve-year deadline for land claims, dismissing buyers' bid to sue over a

A Kenyan court upheld a Kshs 1.18 million fee award against a client who denied hiring the lawyer, confirming that a retainer can be proven

A Kenyan court ruled that an arbitration clause in property leases cannot remove its jurisdiction, and parties who delay invoking arbitratio

Kenya's Employment Court confirmed it cannot extend the three-year deadline for filing employment contract claims, even where criminal charg

A Kenyan court ruled that locking an employee out of work and stopping pay counts as unfair termination, awarding the worker over Ksh. 924,0

Kenya's Environment and Land Court confirmed it cannot extend the six-year deadline for contract claims, and dismissed a landowner's late at

A Kenyan court dismissed both a mother's fraud claim and her daughters' trust claim over family land, leaving everyone's titles intact and n

Kenya's Environment and Land Court sent a property dispute to arbitration because the sale agreement's arbitration clause had to be used fir

A Kenyan court ruled that an advocate who accepted Ksh 19 million in agreed periodic fees cannot demand more through taxation.

Kenya's Environment and Land Court struck out a land-sale refund suit, holding that rescission turns the claim into a money dispute for ordi

A Murang'a court stopped stone-crushing on disputed land but refused to order the crusher operator out, saying such orders can't be granted

A Kenyan court ordered land sellers who took full payment but never transferred the land to refund everything, pay extra damages, and stop s

A Kenyan land buyer's suit survived a time-limit challenge because fraud claims only start the clock when the fraud is discovered.

A Kenyan court ordered Belgo Holdings to refund over Kshs.32 million because the appeal that triggered the payment was later overturned.

A Kenyan court refused to block land dealings but froze the property's status quo, showing courts can preserve disputed land even when an in

A Kenyan court cut a KShs. 384,120 group loan claim to about KShs. 109,200 because the lender never specified who owed what.

A Kenyan court ruled that outsourcing a worker without protecting his agreed terms amounted to unfair termination, awarding him over Kshs. 2

The Environment and Land Court ruled that defendants who signed a consent judgment to refund Kshs.20 million remain liable unless they prove

A Kenyan court dismissed a client's attempt to avoid paying his former lawyer's taxed fees, confirming that a retainer can be proven by cond

Kenya's Employment Court dismissed a Kshs. 5.3 million claim because the claimant was a consultant, not an employee, so the court had no jur

Kenya's Court of Appeal upheld a bank's 2000 property auction, confirming that a valid statutory notice stays effective even if the sale hap

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed that a signed settlement voucher ends an employment dispute unless you can prove fraud, duress, or misrepr