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Advocates practice and legal fees [2026] KEHC 13676 (KLR)

Okello t/a Odero & Partners Advocates v Aero Valves Dispenser Ltd

The High Court granted an interim order preserving KES 4 million in anti-corruption fines pending trial of an advocate's suit to enforce a legal fee agreement, finding a prima facie case and irreparable risk to recovery.

  • Enforcement of fee note agreement
  • Advocate's lien over funds
  • Preservatory/temporary injunction principles
  • Prima facie case
  • Irreparable harm
  • Balance of convenience
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Commercial law [2026] KEHC 13670 (KLR)

David Ananda Apollo Odera v Absa Bank Kenya PLC

The High Court struck out a bank borrower's suit over alleged interest overcharging as time-barred. A contract claim accrues on breach, and discovery of the overcharge did not postpone limitation because fraud or mistake was not pleaded.

  • Preliminary objections
  • Limitation of actions in contract
  • Section 4(1)(a) limitation of actions act
  • Section 26 limitation of actions act (fraud or mistake)
  • Pleading of fraud and mistake
  • Overcharging of interest on bank loan
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Arbitration law [2026] KEHC 13672 (KLR)

Louis & another v Duchess Park Development Company Ltd & another

The High Court granted a limited interim injunction under Section 7 of the Arbitration Act, restraining dealings in Apartment C12 at Duchess Park pending the stalled arbitration between purchasers and vendor.

  • Interim measures of protection in arbitration
  • Exhaustion of remedies doctrine
  • Jurisdiction of the high court under section 7 of the arbitration act
  • Agreement for lease and sale of apartment
  • Injunctions pending arbitration
  • Scope of interim relief and court interference with arbitral process
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Civil procedure [2026] KEHC 13619 (KLR)

Lin-Cap Credit Ltd v Mukundi & 2 others

The High Court declined to stay a Magistrate's order requiring Lin-Cap Credit to deposit Kshs 5,725,000 pending appeal, discharging the interim stay and extending the deposit period by thirty days.

  • Stay of execution pending appeal (order 42 rule 6 civil procedure rules)
  • Professional undertakings
  • Mareva injunction and dissipation of funds
  • Functus officio and review of orders
  • Full and frank disclosure in ex parte applications
  • Inherent jurisdiction (section 3a civil procedure act)
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Land law [2026] KEHC 13669 (KLR)

Summer Mount Holdings Limited v Bank of Baroda (Kenya) Limited & another

Interlocutory ruling granting a temporary injunction against a bank's statutory sale of charged Nairobi land, as the bank failed to prove service of the 40-day Notice to Sell under Section 96(2) of the Land Act.

  • Statutory power of sale of charged land
  • Mortgagee/chargee statutory notices
  • Forced sale valuation and duty of care
  • Equity of redemption
  • Interlocutory injunctions
  • Clog on redemption
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Banking law [2026] KEHC 13668 (KLR)

Ashok D. Panchal & another v Bank of Baroda (Kenya) Limited & another

The High Court dismissed the borrowers' bid to temporarily stop a bank's power-of-sale over their Nairobi apartment, finding no prima facie case under the in duplum rule.

  • Statutory power of sale
  • In duplum rule
  • Interlocutory injunctions
  • Equity of redemption
  • Burden of proof
  • Statutory notices for mortgage default
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Anti-corruption and economic crimes [2026] KEHC 13660 (KLR)

Assets Recovery Agency v Mose and Company Advocates & another

The High Court dismissed the Assets Recovery Agency's bid to forfeit funds held by an escrow advocate, finding the money originated from an innocent victim of a fraudulent mineral sale.

  • Proceeds of crime
  • Burden and standard of proof in civil forfeiture
  • Third-party interest protection under section 93 pocamla
  • Escrow agent liability
  • Sub-judice principle
  • Innocent victim of commercial fraud
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Civil procedure [2026] KEHC 13636 (KLR)

Hussein Nyimbo Company Ltd & 2 others v Snowball Agricultural Company Ltd & 2 others

On consolidated first appeal, the High Court dismissed appeals against a Bondo magistrate's judgment finding carriers liable for 349 missing bags of fish feed lost in transit by their driver.

  • Burden and standard of proof in civil matters
  • Privity of contract and bill of lading as contract of carriage
  • Bailment for reward and carrier's duty of care
  • Vicarious liability of employer for employee's acts in course of employment
  • Admissibility and weight of out-of-court confessions in civil proceedings
  • Effect of discharge in criminal proceedings on civil liability
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Commercial law [2026] KEHC 13678 (KLR)

Wow Beverages Limited v Namaqua Wines Distribution (Pty) Ltd

The High Court refused interlocutory and mandatory injunctions restraining a South African wine supplier from ending its Kenyan distributorship, and dismissed a contempt application over unfulfilled purchase orders.

  • Interlocutory injunctions
  • Mandatory injunctions
  • Implied exclusive distributorship
  • Reasonable expectation in private contract
  • Civil contempt of court
  • Service of court orders and actual knowledge
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Commercial law [2026] KEHC 13620 (KLR)

Alutalala t/a Alutalala Mukhwana & Co Advocates v Kariko alias Jeff Githinji Kariuki t/a Githinji & Associate Advocates

Kenya High Court rejects advocate's objection that an arbitration clause in a gold sale agreement ousts jurisdiction over enforcement of his personal professional undertaking, and finds the objection untimely.

  • Enforcement of professional undertakings by advocates
  • Jurisdiction of the high court versus arbitration clauses
  • Section 6(1) arbitration act stay of proceedings
  • Doctrine of privity of contract
  • Locus standi of a beneficiary of an advocate's undertaking
  • Timeliness of applications for referral to arbitration
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