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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

The Environment and Land Court dismissed an appeal over a Ruiru plot, confirming that a buyer who traces her title through company records b

A Kenyan court confirmed that only the Land Registrar can fix land boundaries, and granted an injunction against a neighbour who encroached.

The Environment and Land Court in Makueni dismissed a family land claim, confirming that land bought during adjudication does not need succe

The court dismissed a land ownership challenge because the plaintiffs skipped the Land Adjudication Act's objection process and went straigh

A Kenyan worker won Ksh. 1.86 million for a workplace injury, but the court refused to make the employer's insurer pay directly.

Kenya's Environment and Land Court dismissed a land appeal because the appellant filed an incomplete record, showing courts will not hear ap

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

A Kenyan court confirmed that plot cards and allotment letters are not proof of land ownership, dismissing the appeal with costs.

A Nakuru court ordered a long-time land occupier to leave within 60 days because fighting over the land in court stopped his adverse possess

A Murang'a court revoked a grant that used dead beneficiaries' signatures and wrongly claimed the deceased fully owned co-shared Nairobi pro

A Kenyan court awarded a seven-year-old boy Kshs. 617,900 after a driver who hit him failed to prove the crash was unavoidable.

A Nairobi court awarded a pedestrian Kshs.2.5 million after a reversing vehicle knocked him down, but cut his claimed expenses because they

The Environment and Land Court dismissed Lucky Kai's appeal, confirming that skipping your own trial hearing and failing to present evidence

A Kenyan land court dismissed an attempt to revive a dead man's power of attorney and re-litigate an already-decided evidence request.

Buyers of plots from unverified sellers lost their land, paid Kshs 2 million in damages, and were ordered to vacate within 90 days.

A Kenyan court ruled that someone who openly occupies and farms land for over 12 years without the owner's objection can legally become its

A Kenyan court struck out a man's adverse possession claim against his own family, ruling family land is held under customary trust, not ope

A woman who openly lived on and farmed 1.5 acres for over 20 years won ownership of that land in Kenya's Environment and Land Court.

A Kenyan court dismissed a woman's 40-year land claim because she couldn't prove her occupation was without the owner's permission.

A Kilifi court awarded a woman Kshs 1 million after finding her criminal prosecution was malicious, confirming that withdrawn charges can co

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