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Section E

High Court (Admiralty Cases): court fees

7 fee items, straight from the Judiciary's Court Fees Assessment Schedule. Fixed fees run from KSh 300 to KSh 5,000. Items marked as assessed move with the amount you are claiming.

High Court (Admiralty Cases) fees from the Court Fees Assessment Schedule
#What you are filingFee
1

Issuing a writ whether in rem or in personam or filing counterclaim

This one fee covers

  • Plaint or counter claim or Originating Summons
  • Verifying Affidavit
  • Summons
  • List of Witnesses
  • List of Documents
  • Statements
  • Documents
  • Agreed issues
  • Pre-trial Questionnaires or Checklist
  • Reply to defense or counterclaim
Assessed on the claim: KSh 2,000 to KSh 71,000
2

Any application

This one fee covers

  • Application
  • Affidavit
  • Annexures for the first one hundred pages or twenty five Megabytes of data
  • Order
KSh 1,500
3

Response to any application

KSh 750
4

Bill of costs

This one fee covers

  • Bill
  • Certificate of Taxation
  • Bundles of documents
KSh 500
5

Response to Bill of costs

KSh 300
6

Court Collection Fees

This one fee covers

  • Application for Execution
  • Legal Deposits
KSh 1,500
7

Lodging a commission for the appraisement and sale of ship or any property - order

KSh 5,000

Source: The Judiciary of Kenya, Court Fees Assessment Schedule, section E, page 8 of the published PDF. In force from 1 July 2021. Transcribed by hand from the page image on 2026-09-14 because the published file carries no text layer.

The registry assesses your fee. Treat this as what to expect, not a quotation, and nothing here is legal advice. paybillke is independent and not affiliated with the Judiciary of Kenya.

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