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Kenya Power has lost its legal fight against a KSh 16 million award to a man who lost an arm in an electrocution. Business Daily reported the outcome on Wednesday.
Kenya Power has failed to overturn a KSh 16 million award to a man who lost an arm in an electrocution, Business Daily reported on Wednesday. The power utility had challenged the payout and lost, according to the newspaper. The award…
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Preacher Paul Mackenzie has asked the High Court for leniency after his conviction on 191 counts of murder over the Shakahola deaths. The State wants him sentenced to death, and sentencing is set for November 6.
Preacher Paul Mackenzie is asking the High Court for mercy before he is sentenced over the Shakahola Forest deaths. The State is seeking the death penalty, the Daily Nation reported. Mackenzie was convicted of 191 counts of murder. According to the Eastleigh Voice, the victims were 190 children and one adult. Sentencing is set for Friday, November 6. Prosecutors want life imprisonment for the other 27 convicts in the case, the Eastleigh Voice reported. Mackenzie's lawyers, Lawrence Obonyo Legal Advocates, filed mitigation submissions covering all 28 convicts. They asked the court to consider prison terms of less than 10 years for convicts whose individual circumstances justify leniency. The defence says the convicts changed during their three years in custody. According to the submissions, they took part in deradicalisation training and religious programmes. Some embraced Christianity. The lawyers also say all 28 are first offenders, citing police clearance certificates issued on October 30, 2026. They added that the convicts are willing to join the National Counter Terrorism Centre's Disengagement, Deradicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration programme. The lawyers accepted the scale of the…
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Paul Kihara Kariuki, Kenya's Attorney General from 2018 to 2022 and former Court of Appeal President, has died aged 72. Chief Justice Martha Koome confirmed his death on Tuesday, and President Ruto and Uhuru Kenyatta led the tributes.
Eighty-seven people from the Timau area want to join a court petition against the government and five agrochemical firms. Tests done for the petitioners found high levels of paraquat and glyphosate in all of them, the Guardian reports.
Armed, masked men allegedly forced advocate Abshir Ahmedsadak Abdi into a black Prado off Ngong Road at about 4 am on Sunday. His brother has filed a habeas corpus case at Milimani asking that security agencies produce him within 24 hours.
The ruling leaves in force a High Court order for Ruto to reconstitute his Cabinet under the two-thirds gender rule. The 120-day deadline to comply expired on October 28, The Standard reports.
A Milimani anti-corruption court has convicted driver Kelly Gichuri Muiruri of using a forged KCSE certificate to get his job. He must pay about KSh 7.5 million in compensation and fines or serve four years in jail.
A Milimani court on Monday sentenced former Nairobi Provincial Commissioner Davis Nathan Chelogoi, 76, to three years in prison. He was convicted on five counts over the fraudulent acquisition of land in Nairobi.
High Court judge Alexander Muteti on Friday ordered the police and DCI chiefs to bring Twaha Mwaipaya to court on Monday at 11am. Vocal Africa says armed men seized the activist in Kamulu on October 25.
The family of former MP Kirima has been handed a KSh 3.3 billion lawyers' bill, the Daily Nation reported on Sunday. The bill follows a dispute over the family's wealth.
Justice Roselyn Aburili ruled that the Law Society of Kenya went to court before Parliament had finished reviewing the 2023 rules. KRA said the higher fees would partly clear a KSh 4.5 billion debt to its Swiss stamp contractor, SICPA.
The Court of Appeal has refused to let the Kenya Defence Forces take its challenge to a KSh 25 million award to the Supreme Court, the Nation reported. The award went to former soldier Moses Etyang.
A 120-day High Court deadline for President Ruto to reconstitute his Cabinet under the two-thirds gender rule lapsed on Wednesday. Lawyers told Citizen Digital the 25-member Cabinet, which has seven women, is now open to legal challenge.
The High Court ruled on Thursday that President Ruto's directives reserving 20 per cent of affordable housing units for teachers and police officers have no legal basis. Both groups must now apply under the same criteria as other Kenyans.
The High Court in Kisumu has barred Kenya Railways Corporation from removing scrap from any of its stations until a lobby group's case is decided. It also ordered all parties to preserve CCTV, GPS and weighbridge records linked to the disposal.
Justice Francis Gikonyo ordered Charles Kerich to appear in person on December 7 over unpaid legal fees owed to Kwengu & Company Advocates. Governor Johnson Sakaja and two county officials have 14 days to respond to contempt applications.
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