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Commercial litigation and dispute resolution in Kenya: assessing a claim, pre-action notices and demand letters, limitation periods, the courts and their jurisdiction, pleadings and filing, interlocutory injunctions and other interim relief, summary judgment and security for costs, appeals, execution and garnishee proceedings, party-and-party costs, and enforcing or resisting a judgment. The guides explain the procedural steps, the documents that decide applications and the points at which settlement or mediation may be the better route.
Enforcing Judgments in Kenya
A judgment is not money in the account. Until it is enforced, a commercial litigant holds a document rather than a payment, and Kenyan…
Read the noteWinding Up an Insolvent Company
The debtor is a company, the demand letters have gone unanswered, and the account remains unpaid. Execution may yet find no assets worth seizing.…
Read the noteAppealing to Kenya’s Court of Appeal
Judgment has gone against you at the High Court. The next fortnight matters more than the next argument: appellate practice in Kenya is governed…
Read the noteStages of Commercial Litigation in Kenya
A commercial dispute in Kenya moves through a recognisable sequence: demand, filing, case management, preparation, trial and judgment, followed in many cases by enforcement…
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