COURT & LEGAL STORIES FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
The high court has suspended the operationalization of the Senate Oversight Fund pending hearing and determination of a case filed by six nominated senators challenging it. In the case, senators Raphael Mwinzagu, Catherine Mumma, Tabitha Munene, Hamida Kibwana, Miraj Abdillahi and Crystal Asige moved to court and faulted the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) arguing that […]
Ex-KPA staff who were charged with acquisition of Sh 215 million will next month know their fate on whether they will be found guilty or innocent by the court. The former KPA employees are charged alongside other associates with conspiring to commit an offence by acquisition of Sh 215 million. The accused persons include former […]
Millions of New Life Prayer Church followers fate now hangs in limbo as the government insists that Pastor Ezekiel Odero’s church does not exist. In a response filed in court, the state maintained that to them New Life Prayer Church did not exist as the licence was cancelled. “As it stands there is no society […]
Many desperate cases of vulnerable people who can’t afford legal representation are facing long jail terms or losing their lands which is life threatening as the country stares to a legal abyss. Many NGOs that used to handle pro bono matters for poor Kenyans have folded due to the high costs involved in hiring Lawyers. […]
Since last week, senior officials and heads of department in the ministry have signed performance contracts which Kindiki says will help them meet targets set in the delivering services to Kenyans.
Two men who have been posing as senior KDF officers and duping innocent Kenyans off millions of shillings by issuing them with fake recruitment letter have been arraigned in court. Albert Bandia and Moses Wanjala were arraigned before a Milimani court where police asked for time to hold them in custody as they complete investigations. […]
Things got heated before a Kisumu court as lawyers argued on whether Governor Amos Nyaribo was served with the petition filed last week by CEC Health Timothy Ombati. Ombati’s legal team led by Lawyer Danstan Omari insisted that they had served the governor and even filed an affidavit of service. Other lawyers on Ombati’s team […]
A North Carolina court in Wake County has granted custody of a two-year-old abandoned in Kenya to the father who has been fighting to get the child left behind by the mother. The Kenyan US based couple had a bitter custody battle with them even filing a case before a Kenyan court over the same […]
Mathe Wa Ngara has accused the magistrate who denied her bail of being bias and asked her to recuse herself from the case. In an application filed in court, Nancy Kigunzu also known as Mathe Wa Ngara has asked magistrate Njeri Thuku to recuse herself from the case. Through lawyer Danstan Omari, Mathe says the […]
A man who has been masquerading as a big shot lawyer for years while using a genuine law firm’s letterhead to the extent of even representing clients in court has been busted. Orioki Kenyeru Co. Advocates has written a demand letter to Antony Otiende seeking for an apology and further to cease using their letter […]
