CounselConnect Cases · Volume XIV · 2026
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Cite the ratio.
The all-in-one case brief platform for Kenyan advocates — AI-structured analyses, hybrid search, judge profiles, and citation-ready blocks, every brief linked to the original judgment.
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★★★★★ 300K+ cases already indexed · Sourced from Kenya Law · 8 court levels · 24hr update lag · 30K+ full briefs
§1 · Foreword — what the desk gives you
Structured Briefs AI-powered — bottom line, executive summary, ratio decidendi, orders, timeline, FAQs; every holding traceable to the page it appears on in the source judgment.
Hybrid Search Vector + keyword — find cases by concept, citation, or party name, with filters for court, outcome, date range, and topic, and built-in RRF reranking.
Judge Profiles Fully linked — click any judge in a brief to see every decision we've indexed, and build a view of how individual judges reason.
Bookmarks & History Personal library — save briefs, track your reading history, replay recent searches; cross-device sync coming soon.
Case Alerts Coming soon — save a search and get notified when new cases matching your criteria are published on Kenya Law. The citation graph carries 1.5M edges, so overruled decisions are spotted instantly.
§2 · On the desk today — recent briefs
Never miss what matters.
Akinyi v Ogwari & another
DismissedSupreme Court cannot hear appeals from Small Claims Court cases because the law says High Court decisions are final.
Wafula v Maru
DismissedApplication for certification of appeal dismissed — leave refused on general public importance.
Jamila Maalim Hussein Eymoi v Republic
Partially AllowedCourts cannot revisit past sentences, but must credit time already served in remand.
§3 · The problem — your legal research is scattered
Kenya Law for judgments. Word docs for notes. WhatsApp for citations. There's a better way.
The old way · fragmented & slow
- Scroll Kenya Law listings by hand
- Read 40,000 words to find the ratio
- No idea which cases have been overruled
- Copy-paste citations into Word
- Manually check for new judgments
CounselConnect Cases · everything in one place
- Hybrid search across 300K+ cases
- Bottom line and ratio in 30 seconds
- Citation graph flags overruled decisions
- Copy-paste-ready citation blocks
- Daily ingestion from Kenya Law
§4 · Who it's for — built for every stage of your career
Whether you're fresh from KSL or a Senior Counsel with decades of experience.
Law Students (KSL + bar prep) — read structured briefs to understand how courts reason; use the citation block for exam answers and moots; AI Legal Chat for quick research on 300K+ cases.
Young Advocates (0–3 years practice) — save cases to build your personal research library; track judges and build familiarity with benches.
Established Practitioners (3–10 years) and Senior Counsel (10+ years) — launch your career with the right connections: stop cold-calling for briefs, get matched with gigs instantly, find mentors who guide your growth, and build a network that opens doors.
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§5 · How it works — from judgment to brief in four passes
Pass the first — Ingest. Daily scrape of new.kenyalaw.org. Raw HTML stored in R2.
Pass the second — Parse. Extract metadata, parties, judges, statutes, citations.
Pass the third — Analyse. Four-pass LLM pipeline: metadata → analysis → insights → QA.
Pass the fourth — Index. Chunked embeddings loaded for hybrid semantic + keyword search.
§6 · Every Kenyan court
§7 · Plans — priced for Kenyan practice
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§8 · Notice to readers
Stop reading 40,000 words to find the ratio. Search Kenyan jurisprudence the way you think — in plain language, filtered by what matters.
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AI-generated briefs — not legal advice. Always verify on Kenya Law. Licensed CC BY-SA 3.0. CounselConnect Cases hosts derivative briefs with full attribution; all judgments sourced from Kenya Law (new.kenyalaw.org). Not a substitute for legal advice.