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Kenya's Employment Court confirmed that trade unions can sue for their members, and employers cannot use new 2024 procedural rules to strike

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed that decades-old oral land exchanges and sales remain enforceable, and dismissed the landowner's challenge

Kenya's Employment Court struck out a 19-year-old claim for unpaid leave and gratuity because it was filed far too late, though the claimant

The Court of Appeal dismissed three drug manufacturers' challenge, confirming that Kenya's Parliament can backdate tax benefits and VAT refu

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed that the Employment Act, 2007 does not apply to terminations that happened before it came into force.

Kenya's Court of Appeal cut a drug trafficker's effective sentence from 20 years to 3 years plus a fine, holding the law set maximum sentenc

A Kenyan Small Claims Court held an employee who collected payments using his employer's customs licence must repay Kshs 254,736 because emp

Kenya's Court of Appeal ruled matrimonial property is divided by proven contribution, not automatic 50:50 sharing, and older cases follow pr

Kenya's Environment and Land Court at Kilgoris upheld a buyer's 2000 oral land purchase, ruling old unwritten land sales still count if the

Kenya's Court of Appeal ruled that an arbitration clause naming abolished offices and tribunals is unenforceable, so the farmer's lawsuit pr

Kenya's Employment Court confirmed a CBA cannot be applied retrospectively to compute gratuity unless the parties clearly intended it.

A Nairobi court confirmed employers must deduct only taxes that existed when an employee was fired — and cannot deduct from awarded court co

A former civil servant who resigned after 27 years won his pension, because Kenyan law treats deferred pensions as payable at age 50.

A Kenyan court upheld a fair dismissal but ordered the Judiciary to pay half salary for the entire suspension period because it unfairly bac

Kenya's Employment Court confirmed you must register your disability before retirement to claim disability-based benefits against a former e

Kenya's Court of Appeal refused to reduce a death sentence, ruling it cannot reopen cases it has already finalized, even under new 2023 sent

A dismissed public officer lost his pension claim because Kenyan courts cannot apply today's laws to events that happened before those laws

A Kenyan court cancelled a fraudulent joint land registration and the bank charge built on it, but sent the matrimonial property dispute to

Kenya's Employment Court ruled a retired employee rehired on fixed-term contracts cannot claim loyalty pay under a CBA signed after his reti

A Kenyan court confirmed that a university cannot use its internal statutes to lower a retirement age agreed in a collective bargaining agre

Kenya's Court of Appeal confirmed that expired leaseholders have a legal right to first refusal on renewal, and a land buyer who cannot prov

Kenya's Court of Appeal ruled insurers cannot carry forward life insurance losses from before 2009 because tax law changes only apply going

Kenya's Court of Appeal upheld the cancellation of land titles obtained through invalid sale agreements and backdated documents in a family