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Environment & Land Court · 2006–2026

How the ELC decides

Every ELC judgment in the corpus, read and checked against the original text. These are counts from that corpus, not estimates.

Data current to 8 October 2026 · 57,372 judgments

Quote-grounding: 78% of 110,631 scored briefs verified ≥90%

Court

Supreme CourtCourt of AppealHigh CourtELRCELCIndustrialKadhiMagistrateSmall Claims
Judgments
57,372
2006–2026
Authorities cited
299,535
19153 linked in-corpus
Allowed / granted
27,615
in whole or in part
Split benches
1
with a dissent or concurrence

Judgments per year

ELC judgments in the corpus, by year of delivery.

12006120121592013687201485320151308201638692017487620185072201939532020477420215907202264892023604620247304202560332026

How matters end

What happened to the decision below

The citator signal: a judgment that was reversed should not be cited as good law.

  • affirmed20756
  • set aside in part15585
  • not applicable9736
  • reversed8329
  • appeal struck out2384
  • varied521
  • remitted59

Every authority the ELC has cited

Every authority relied on more than once, ranked. Those in the corpus link to the brief; the count links to judgments mentioning it.

18,590 authorities

  1. 1Giella v Cassman Brown5221×
  2. 2Mrao Ltd v First American Bank of Kenya Ltd & 2 Others3007×
  3. 3Nguruman Limited v Jan Bonde Nielsen & 2 Others1979×
  4. 4Shah v Mbogo1675×
  5. 5Selle & Another v Associated Motor Boat Co. Ltd & Others1641×
  6. 6Mukisa Biscuit Manufacturing Co. Ltd v West End Distributors Ltd1381×
  7. 7Owners of the Motor Vessel "Lillian S" v Caltex Oil (Kenya) Ltd1235×
  8. 8Munyu Maina v Hiram Gathiha Maina1189×
  9. 9Mukisa Biscuits Manufacturing Co. Ltd v West End Distributors Ltd1091×
  10. 10Wambugu v Njuguna945×
  11. 11Butt v Rent Restriction Tribunal933×
  12. 12Samuel Kamau Macharia & another v Kenya Commercial Bank Limited & 2 others861×
  13. 13Mumo Matemu v Trusted Society of Human Rights Alliance & 5 others825×
  14. 14Dina Management Limited v County Government of Mombasa & 5 others824×
  15. 15John Florence Maritime Services Limited & another v Cabinet Secretary for Transport and Infrastructure & 3 others779×
  16. 16Patel v EA Cargo Handling Services Ltd732×
  17. 17James Wangalwa & Another v Agnes Naliaka Cheseto730×
  18. 18Arthi Highway Developers Limited v West End Butchery Limited & 6 others725×
  19. 19Mtana Lewa v Kahindi Ngala Mwagandi700×
  20. 20Nicholas Kiptoo Arap Korir Salat v Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission & 7 others688×
  21. 21Oraro v Mbaja676×
  22. 22Kinyanjui Kamau v George Kamau669×
  23. 23Anarita Karimi Njeru v Republic659×
  24. 24Vijay Morjaria v Nansingh Madhusingh Darbar & Another642×
  25. 25Speaker of the National Assembly v James Njenga Karume641×

Who dissents

Judges who wrote separately most often in the ELC.

Name variants in the source judgments are collapsed.

Bench size

How many judges sat on each judgment.

  • 1 judge
    56851
  • 2 judges
    464
  • 3 judges
    48
  • 6 judges
    1

Most-interpreted legislation

What it hears

land law51208civil procedure39954burden of proof27787judicial discretion21335injunction18396remedies17857interlocutory relief12831adverse possession12227jurisdiction12019statutory interpretation11011contract law9274limitation of actions7784

Counts are drawn from AI-extracted briefs of every Environment & Land Court judgment on Kenya Law, each checked against the source text.

A note on accuracy. These pages are generated automatically from our AI-written case briefs and have not been checked by a lawyer. Case titles and citations come from Kenya Law; the counts, topics, propositions and “treatment” labels are derived from the briefs and can be incomplete or wrong. Use them as a research aid and always read the original judgment before relying on anything here. This is not legal advice.