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Environment and land law [2026] KEELC 5482 (KLR)

Republic v County Land Registrar, Nyamira & 3 others; Onyancha (Ex parte)

Court
Environment and Land Court
Case number
Environment and Land Judicial Review Case E001 of 2026

The Environment and Land Court granted leave to apply for judicial review of a County Land Registrar's 2025 rectification of the land register, but declined a stay, injunction and expunction of register entries at the leave stage.

  • Leave to apply for judicial review
  • Rectification of land register under section 79(2) land registration act
  • Fraud in land transfers
  • Stay of administrative decisions
  • Availability of injunctions in judicial review
  • Exhaustion of remedies under section 9(4) fair administrative action act
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Land law [2026] KEELC 5491 (KLR)

Matara & another v Registered Trustees Diocese of Kisii (Nyansiongo Parish) & 5 others

Court
Environment and Land Court
Case number
Environment and Land Case 80 of 2021

The Court held it had jurisdiction because the pleaded claims sought cancellation of titles and adverse possession, not a boundary dispute. The Plaintiffs' suit was dismissed and the First Defendant's encroachment counterclaim succeeded.

  • Jurisdiction over boundary disputes
  • Registered land and indefeasibility of title
  • Fraud and illegality in title
  • Adverse possession against registered proprietor
  • Encroachment and eviction
  • Permanent injunction
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Civil procedure [2026] KEELC 5489 (KLR)

Kabiro v Jerotich

Court
Environment and Land Court
Case number
Environment and Land Appeal E030 of 2025

The Court held it had jurisdiction under section 63 of the CPA to supplement a 28 January 2026 deposit order and allowed a joint inspection, unrestricted access, and monthly sworn accounts of rental income from the suit property pending appeal.

  • Jurisdiction of the environment and land court on appeal
  • Supplemental proceedings and preservation orders under section 63 of the civil procedure act
  • Compliance with interim deposit orders for rental income
  • Joint inspection of property
  • Accounting for rental income pending appeal
  • Costs discretion and beacons for exercise of discretion
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Environment and land law [2026] KEELC 5454 (KLR)

Omwenga v Chebet

Court
Environment and Land Court
Case number
Environment and Land Case 256 of 2013

The Environment and Land Court found the respondent in contempt of its 2014 judgment and 2019 decree protecting the applicant's registered title to Eldoret Municipality/Block 14/783, holding that pending criminal proceedings did not excuse his continued occupation.

  • Contempt of court
  • Permanent injunction over land
  • Proprietary rights over registered land
  • Burden and standard of proof in contempt
  • Effect of pending criminal proceedings on civil land orders
  • Costs following the event
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Civil procedure [2026] KEELC 5486 (KLR)

Mbuthu v Kiroe & another

Court
Environment and Land Court
Case number
Environment and Land Appeal E087 of 2025
Judge
JA Mogeni

Ruling dismissing the Appellant's application for stay of execution pending appeal, where the unrebutted evidence showed she defaulted on a conditional stay requiring Kshs. 200,000 security and did not come with clean hands.

  • Stay of execution pending appeal
  • Order 42 rule 6(2) civil procedure rules 2010
  • Substantial loss and nugatory appeal
  • Unrebutted affidavit evidence
  • Clean hands doctrine and abuse of process
  • Compliance with conditional stay orders and security for costs
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Land law [2026] KEELC 5478 (KLR)

John Kalisa Mutiso & 2 others v Peter Katumo Kioko & 4 others

Court
Environment and Land Court
Case number
Environment and Land Case E034 of 2025

The Makueni Environment and Land Court dismissed a preliminary objection that a land boundary and trespass suit was premature under Section 18(2) of the Land Registration Act, holding the objection raised contested facts.

  • Preliminary objections
  • Boundary disputes
  • Jurisdiction of the environment and land court
  • Doctrine of exhaustion
  • Bona fide purchaser for value
  • Rectification of land register
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Civil procedure [2026] KEELC 5459 (KLR)

Reliance Power Parts Limited v Rajesh B. Vyas (Sued as the Holder of a Power of Attorney for Laxmidevi Bachulal Vyas)

Court
Environment and Land Court
Case number
Environment and Land Case E069 of 2025

Eldoret ELC dismissed the Defendant's preliminary objection on sub judice and res judicata grounds, holding it was not a pure point of law and that costs abide the main suit.

  • Preliminary objections
  • Sub judice doctrine
  • Res judicata doctrine
  • Striking out of pleadings
  • Overriding objective
  • Jurisdiction of the environment and land court
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Environment and land law [2026] KEELC 5464 (KLR)

Kiptugen v Commissioner of Lands & 8 others

Court
Environment and Land Court
Case number
Environment and Land Case 787 of 2012

The Environment and Land Court held that the 1st and 2nd respondents were in contempt for maintaining a restriction on title despite decrees affirmed on appeal declaring the applicant the bona fide owner, and ordered its removal within 14 days.

  • Contempt of court
  • Standard of proof in contempt proceedings
  • Knowledge of court orders as substitute for personal service
  • Land registration restrictions
  • Independence of the ethics and anti-corruption commission
  • Recovery of costs
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Civil procedure [2026] KEELC 5457 (KLR)

Chepkiyeng v Serem & 3 others

Court
Environment and Land Court
Case number
Enviromental and Land Originating Summons 108 of 2019

The Environment and Land Court at Eldoret dismissed a land suit for want of prosecution under Order 17 Rule 2(5) of the Civil Procedure Rules, 2010, finding no sufficient reason for over four years of inaction.

  • Dismissal for want of prosecution
  • Order 17 rule 2(5) civil procedure rules 2010
  • Inordinate delay and excuse for delay
  • Advocate-client responsibility for case progress
  • Costs
  • Dismissal-for-want-of-prosecution
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Land law [2026] KEELC 5451 (KLR)

Kudate v Tikani & 2 others

Court
Environment and Land Court
Case number
Environment and Land Case E001 of 2024
Judge
LN Gacheru

The Environment and Land Court dismissed the Plaintiff's claim to parcel CISMARA/MAJIMOTO/2760, finding he failed to prove a lawful root of title and upholding the 1st Defendant's title as a Majimoto Group Ranch member allocation.

  • Competing certificates of title and indefeasibility
  • Root of title and legality of acquisition
  • Group ranch land allocation and membership
  • Allegations of fraud and misrepresentation
  • Burden and standard of proof
  • Adverse inference for failure to produce evidence
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