COURT & LEGAL STORIES FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
Environment CS Soipan Tuya has moved to court seeking to get her estranged boyfriend to pay upkeep for their two kids aged nine and four years. In a petition filed at the magistrate court in Nairobi, Tuya has further accused her husband who walked away from the marriage of being abusive. Tuya says she cohabited […]
A woman who is at the centre of a divorce case with her millionaire husband has now come out to deny ever attempting to kill her mother- in- law who was staying with them. Scholastica Wamucie Kimani is in the middle of a nasty divorce case with her estranged husband Shakir Mohammed Merali who has […]
A Somali woman has moved to court seeking to stop her mother from forcefully marrying her off to a man she does not love. Amina Ali sheikh has sued her mother halima aden seeking for court protection against her and others who have been forcing her to get married. Through lawyer Yashim Butende Amina claims […]
The Kisii community has yet again been thrown into mourning following the death of Lawyer Musa Obare Juma barely two months after two other leaders died in separate road accident. The city lawyer died on September 27 after ordering for a cup of coffee at a Kilimani restaurant. It is said that Juma who has […]
The clerk of the Kirinyaga County Assembly Kamau Aidi has denied disobeying court order barring them from sitting to discuss MCA David Mathenge’s inciting remarks he made in March, Kamau told court that they were not aware that there was a court order when the powers and privileges committee sat to discuss MCA Mathenge. The […]
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has recovered 32 acres of Marine Reserve land in Chale Island Kwale county from nine alleged land grabbers. This is after the commission won a case it had lodged against the alleged grabbers including Swahili Beach Resort. The land valued at Sh 1.2 billion used to be used as […]
Chief Justice Martha Koome on Monday presided over the swearing in ceremony of 69 new resident magistrates who have been recently recruited. The 69 new magistrates will also serve as the small claims court adjudicators which the CJ said was the people’s court. In her speech, Koome said both the magistrates’ courts and the small […]
A woman who stole a three year old girl from Langata Women Prison was on Monday charged with child theft. Sharon Wanyonyi was arraigned before the Kibera Law courts where she denied the charge of theft. It is alleged that on September 29, 20323 at Langata women’s prisons in Langata Sub-County, she stole a three-year-old […]
City Lawyer Danstan Omari on Monday asked the court to slap Nyamira nominated MCA Dolphin Nyangara with punitive costs for refusing to withdraw her illegal appeal. In the case, Nyangara filed case the appeal court after losing her seat to advocate Michelle Omwoyo. The high court had upheld the decision of the magistrate court that […]
11 Njiwa Sacco employees charged with 223 counts of fraud related to loss of Sh 166 million will remain in remand prison for more days as they wait for pre-bail report. The 11 were on Monday arraigned before the Kahawa Law Courts and the court was told that the probation report of bail was not […]
