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Employment & Labour Relations Court · 2001–2026

How the ELRC decides

Every ELRC 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 · 26,906 judgments

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

Court

Supreme CourtCourt of AppealHigh CourtELRCELCIndustrialKadhiMagistrateSmall Claims
Judgments
26,906
2001–2026
Authorities cited
95,617
6081 linked in-corpus
Allowed / granted
15,431
in whole or in part
Split benches
1
with a dissent or concurrence

Judgments per year

ELRC judgments in the corpus, by year of delivery.

120014620021520037200412005620061520072201022520128462013125120141618201518492016383201725622018255620191886202023642021167520223383202327862024304520253402026

How matters end

What happened to the decision below

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

  • set aside in part12613
  • affirmed9195
  • reversed2122
  • not applicable1445
  • appeal struck out923
  • varied592
  • remitted16

Every authority the ELRC 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.

10,269 authorities

  1. 1Walter Ogal Anuro v Teachers Service Commission1205×
  2. 2Kenya Airways Limited v Aviation & Allied Workers Union Kenya & 3 others884×
  3. 3Selle & Another v Associated Motor Boat Co. Ltd & Others619×
  4. 4Giella v Cassman Brown582×
  5. 5Pius Machafu Isindu v Lavington Security Guards Limited503×
  6. 6Kenfreight (E.A) Limited v Benson K. Nguti500×
  7. 7Anarita Karimi Njeru v Republic481×
  8. 8Shah v Mbogo426×
  9. 9Mary Chemweno Kiptui v Kenya Pipeline Company Limited421×
  10. 10Postal Corporation of Kenya v Andrew K. Tanui407×
  11. 11Coca Cola East & Central Africa Limited v Maria Kagai Ligaga404×
  12. 12Law Society of Kenya v Attorney General & another384×
  13. 13Mukisa Biscuit Manufacturing Co. Ltd v West End Distributors Ltd350×
  14. 14Mumo Matemu v Trusted Society of Human Rights Alliance & 5 others322×
  15. 15Owners of the Motor Vessel "Lillian S" v Caltex Oil (Kenya) Ltd317×
  16. 16Kenya Revenue Authority v Reuwel Waithaka Gitahi & 2 others310×
  17. 17Mrao Ltd v First American Bank of Kenya Ltd & 2 Others298×
  18. 18Anthony Mkala Chitavi v Malindi Water & Sewerage Company Ltd291×
  19. 19Samuel Kamau Macharia & another v Kenya Commercial Bank Limited & 2 others279×
  20. 20Thomas De La Rue (K) Ltd v David Opondo Omutelema275×
  21. 21Judicial Service Commission v Gladys Boss Shollei & another274×
  22. 22Attorney General & another v Andrew Maina Githinji & another261×
  23. 23Mukisa Biscuits Manufacturing Co. Ltd v West End Distributors Ltd250×
  24. 24Naima Khamis V Oxford University Press (EA) Ltd250×
  25. 25Ol Pejeta Ranching Limited v David Wanjau Muhoro239×

Who dissents

Judges who wrote separately most often in the ELRC.

Name variants in the source judgments are collapsed.

Bench size

How many judges sat on each judgment.

  • 1 judge
    26237
  • 2 judges
    584
  • 3 judges
    84

Most-interpreted legislation

What it hears

employment labour26136burden of proof17300remedies15421civil procedure12326damages11931fair hearing8795contract law8567statutory interpretation7539judicial discretion7186natural justice4290jurisdiction4031evidence2927

Counts are drawn from AI-extracted briefs of every Employment & Labour Relations 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.