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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

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

The Environment and Land Court refused to pause the Karen land petition, ruling that defending a case is not enough harm to justify a stay.

Kenya's Environment and Land Court struck out a railway land petition because its issues had already been decided in an earlier case.

Kenya's Environment and Land Court dismissed a landowner's appeal, confirming that court orders made without jurisdiction are void and canno

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

A Kenyan court ruled that a land dispute is not automatically barred just because someone else previously litigated over the same parcel of

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 Court of Appeal confirmed you cannot file a new land lawsuit when you could have joined an existing case, and delay kills stale clai

A Nairobi court refused to reopen a land judgment and struck out tribunal orders issued in defiance of that judgment, penalising the parties

Kenya's Environment and Land Court dismissed a family's attempt to relitigate a settled land dispute, confirming that children inherit their

Kenya's Environment and Land Court struck out a land suit because the Minister's adjudication decision is final and can only be challenged t

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 merged two land disputes over the same property into one case to avoid conflicting decisions and duplicated legal costs.

The Environment and Land Court dismissed a land buyer's refund claim because she waited nearly 20 years to sue, past Kenya's six-year limit

The Environment and Land Court in Kisii refused to stop construction of Nyambera Modern Market, finding the land buyer's loss could be paid

The Kisii Environment and Land Court allowed a long-running land dispute to proceed, rejecting claims that earlier cases had already settled

A Mombasa court struck out one land claim as already decided but let 333 residents keep fighting over three other Changamwe plots.

The Environment and Land Court in Thika set aside a consent judgment over land because 16 people who claimed ownership were never heard.

Kenya's Court of Appeal gave twelve landowners more time to appeal, confirming that a well-explained delay can be forgiven in the interest o

The Environment and Land Court dismissed a land dispute appeal as pointless because the underlying case had already been decided, confirming

The Environment and Land Court dismissed a repeat court application as res judicata, but showed the applicant how to fix a flawed court orde