{"id":198433,"date":"2025-05-20T00:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T22:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-court-rejects-ecobanks-bid-to-appeal-sh103mn-advocate-fee-dispute\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T00:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T22:39:12","slug":"kenya-court-rejects-ecobanks-bid-to-appeal-sh103mn-advocate-fee-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-court-rejects-ecobanks-bid-to-appeal-sh103mn-advocate-fee-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Court Rejects Ecobank&#8217;s Bid to Appeal Sh103mn Advocate Fee Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The Supreme Court of Kenya has dismissed an application by Ecobank Kenya Limited seeking to escalate a dispute over advocate remuneration to the apex court, declaring that the matter does not raise issues of general public importance as required by the Constitution.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">This development represents the latest twist in a long-running legal contest between the lender and Macharia Mwangi &amp; Njeru Advocates law firm, over a contentious legal fee of Sh103.4 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">The Supreme Court, in a ruling&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505190210.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The Supreme Court of Kenya has dismissed an application by Ecobank Kenya Limited seeking to escalate a dispute over advocate remuneration to the apex court, declaring that the matter does not raise issues of general public importance as required by the Constitution. This development represents the latest twist in a long-running legal contest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":198434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[9521,258,256,8992,10798,6185,9424,45613,9136,4688,430,257,8440,49302,254],"class_list":["post-198433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-advocate","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appeal","tag-bid","tag-court","tag-dispute","tag-ecobanks","tag-fee","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-rejects","tag-sh103mn","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}