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The all-in-one case file for Kenyan advocates — every judgment briefed, every quote pinned to the page it came from, every brief linked to the original judgment on Kenya Law. AI-generated analyses, hybrid search, judge profiles and citation-ready blocks.

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PETITION (APPLICATION) E025 OF 2025 · [2026] KESC 9 (KLR)

Akinyi v Ogwari & another

Dismissed
Supreme Court of Kenya · Nairobi

Supreme Court cannot hear appeals from Small Claims Court cases because the law says High Court decisions are final.

23 Jan 2026unanimous · 5 judgesno costs APPLICATION E012 OF 2025 · SUPREME COURT

Wafula v Maru

Dismissed
Supreme Court of Kenya

Application for certification of appeal dismissed — leave refused on general public importance.

23 Jan 2026certification MISC. CRIMINAL APPLICATION E007 OF 2025 · KEHC

Jamila Maalim Hussein Eymoi v Republic

Partially Allowed
High Court of Kenya

Courts cannot revisit past sentences, but must credit time already served in remand.

8 Apr 2025J. N. Onyiego

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What the file holds

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Structured briefs AI-poweredBottom line, plain language, executive summary, ratio, orders, timeline, FAQs — every holding traceable to the page it appears on in the source judgment.
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Hybrid search Vector + keywordFind cases by concept, citation or party name. Filters for court, outcome, date range and topic.
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The record · at a glance

19,596judgments briefed
300K+judgments indexed
1.5Mcitation edges
9courts covered
30+brief sections

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Every Kenyan court · one drawer

Supreme Court KESC Court of Appeal KECA High Court KEHC ELRC KEELRC ELC KEELC Industrial Court KEIC Magistrate's Court KEMC Kadhi's Court KEKC Small Claims Court SCC

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Ingest

Daily scrape of new.kenyalaw.org. Raw HTML stored, then stripped of navigation and boilerplate.

Parse

Extract metadata, parties, judges, statutes and citations from the judgment body.

Analyse

Four-pass pipeline: metadata & outcome classification, orders, ratio with page-pinpointed quotes, then implications, FAQs and SEO.

File

Draft goes to review; publishing versions the brief automatically — every quote matched verbatim and located to its page.

Read the file, then the judgment. Briefs are AI-generated analyses of Kenya Law judgments, checked against the source text — always verify against the original judgment before relying on them in court. Not legal advice.