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UK court orders tea giant James Finlay to withdraw Kenya case

James Finlay tea plantation in Kericho on October 27, 2021.[Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

A judge in Scotland has ordered James Finlay company to stop a case it filed in a Kenyan court to block another suit in the United Kingdom.

The judge, Lord Braid, on Monday ruled that the company that owns thousands of acres of tea bushes in Kericho County, stops the proceedings in the Employment and Labour Relation Court in Nairobi to allow a case filed by some 1,044 former and current employees in Scotland to continue.

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