A clean search brings comfort. A purchaser checks the register, finds a registered proprietor, pays the price and assumes the title is theirs. But the bona fide purchaser defence in Kenya does not necessarily protect a purchaser where the root of title is defective....
When a dispute lands on the desk of a registration body, there is often a temptation for that body to simply resolve it, particularly where the parties are unlikely to sort things out themselves and a swift administrative fix looks like the path of least...
When Taxman and the Decree holder Chase the Same Coin, Who Gets Paid First? On 1st September 2026, the High Court, Commercial and Tax Court, (Mulwa J.) delivered a ruling in Gopitex Knitwear Mills Limited v Kenya Knitting and Weaving Mills Limited & Another that...
When a New Board Regrets an Old Board’s Decisions On 31st July 2026, the Court of Appeal at Nairobi (Musinga, Lilan & Okello, JJA) delivered its judgment in National Environmental Trust Fund (NETFUND) v Ndegwa, upholding the NETFUND separation agreement with...
A consumer rights petition over a concert was well-pleaded but fatally undermined by the petitioner’s failure to adduce admissible evidence. The Stanbic Yetu Festival judgment distils the holding, the reasoning and the practical takeaways for every event organiser,...
Why Nairobi’s Riparian Evictions Just Hit a Massive Legal Roadblock If you own riverfront property in Nairobi, your relationship with your title deed just changed forever. Following the devastating floods of March–May 2024, the national government issued a sweeping...
