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Kenya's Environment and Land Court dismissed a society's third attempt to stop eviction, ruling the matter was already decided and compensat

A Kenyan court threw out a land dispute challenge filed nearly three years late, confirming the six-month deadline for judicial review is st

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 ruled that a time-bar defence based on disputed promises to pay must be proven with evidence at trial, not struck o

Kenya's Employment Court ruled that whether someone was truly your employer must be decided at trial, not thrown out early on a technicality

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

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

A Kenyan court refused to strike out a land appeal over missing documents, ruling the gap could be fixed by filing a supplementary record.

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

Kenya's Environment and Land Court ruled that a preliminary objection cannot be used to decide disputed facts about land ownership, reviving

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

The Environment and Land Court dismissed a landowner's attempt to throw out a fence-destruction lawsuit, ruling the objection mixed law with

Kenya's Employment Court ruled that an employer's HR manual is not law, so claims about breaching it must be decided at a full hearing with

Kenya's Employment Court ruled that embassy staff hired locally can sue their embassy employer despite diplomatic immunity claims.

A Kenyan court ruled that a company facing execution of a judgment debt must send its officials to court, striking out its attempt to block

Kenya's Environment and Land Court ruled you cannot be forced to exhaust an appeal route that doesn't exist yet, so the quarry dispute proce

Kenya's Environment and Land Court ruled that water disputes involving trespass, property damage or constitutional violations can go straigh

A Kenyan court struck out an adverse possession claim because the landowner's estate was sued without naming the administrators legally appo

Kenya's Environment and Land Court dismissed a bid to strike out a land appeal, confirming preliminary objections cannot rely on disputed fa

A Kenyan court struck out a beneficiary's land suit because he lacked a Limited Grant of Letters of Administration before suing over a decea

A Malindi court gave late-filing land plaintiffs one more chance to be heard, but only after paying the other side Kshs. 30,000.

A Kenyan court ruled that a judgment set aside does not automatically come back to life unless the original order clearly says so.