COURT & LEGAL STORIES FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
Thika Law Courts Chief Magistrate Stella Atambo has moved to court seeking to compel the EACC to release her official phone, which was confiscated, arguing that the move has crippled operations at the courts as she needs her phone to work. In an application through lawyers Danstan Omari and Shadrack Wambui, Atambo argues that the […]
The driver of popular Matatu Moneyfest which is associated George Ruto son to President William Ruto was on Friday charged before a Nairobi court with various traffic offenses. Leonard Kituu was arraigned before Senior Principal Magistrate Eric Wambo and denied five counts ranging from obstruction, driving on the wrong lane,driving a Public Service Vehicle (PSV) without a uniform and […]
A chief from Wajir County was on Friday arraigned before a Nairobi court for allegedly being found in possession of an identity card with altered details. Abdullahi Abdi Sheikh appeared in court alongside Veronica Njenga, a senior clerical officer at Huduma Center, Nairobi City Square. It was alleged of he knowingly changed his year of […]
The National Assembly has suffered a major setback yet again after the court of appeal declined to suspend the High Court’s ruling on the ongoing party majority dispute. The three judge bench said there was no sufficient evidence to prove that parliamentary business would grind to a halt if the orders were not granted. The […]
A fake car city dealer was on Thursday charged before a Nairobi court with fraudulently obtaining Mitsubishi Pajero car valued at Sh 2.5 M. Clinton Wambu Githinji appeared before Milimani Law Courts Magistrate Dolphina Alego where he denied the charges. It was alleged that on or about July 24, 2024 he fraudulently misrepresented himself as […]
Three directors of Tareef Enterprises Ali Sheikh Hassan, Ahmed Mohamed Karshf and Abdulaziz Mohamed Karshf were charged with obtaining cement, bitumen and paraffin valued at Sh 7.8 million. It is alleged that on diverse dates between January 2019 and December 2020 they fraudulently obtained the money from John Mwaniki Kiarie by falsely pretending they were […]
The government has suffered yet another setback after the high court annulled the government’s decision to channel all advertisements exclusively through the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) is unconstitutional. Justice Lawrence Mugambi on Thursday quashed a directive issued by ICT Principal Secretary Edward Kisiang’ani in March last year, which required all government ministries, state agencies, independent […]
The feud between city lawyers Danstan Omari and Nelson Havi is far from over as it now spills over to the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC). This is after Omari wrote a letter to NCIC seeking action to be taken against Havi for tweeting about Kisii lawyers, saying it was incitement and hate speech. […]
A security guard who was killed alongside his Dutch employer, Rowenhorst Herman, allegedly by hitmen hired by his Kenyan wife, had only worked in the home for five days. A new witness, Khamis Bambo, who was Herman’s caretaker, told a Mombasa High Court judge, Wendy Micheni, that the late Evans Pole Bokoro had been employed […]
