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Industrial Court of Kenya · 2001–2025

How the Industrial decides

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

Data current to 18 July 2025 · 189 judgments

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

Court

Supreme CourtCourt of AppealHigh CourtELRCELCIndustrialKadhiMagistrateSmall Claims
Judgments
189
2001–2025
Authorities cited
289
10 linked in-corpus
Allowed / granted
102
in whole or in part
Split benches
0
with a dissent or concurrence

Judgments per year

Industrial judgments in the corpus, by year of delivery.

122001122003420046200610200742008920113620127201384201412015220221202412025

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 part80
  • affirmed62
  • reversed22
  • not applicable14
  • appeal struck out10
  • varied1

Every authority the Industrial 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.

45 authorities

  1. 1Mukisa Biscuits Manufacturing Co. Ltd v West End Distributors Ltd11×
  2. 2Giella v Cassman Brown7×
  3. 3Cause 69 of 20046×
  4. 4Divecon v Samani4×
  5. 5Halai & Another v Thorton & Turpin (1963) Ltd4×
  6. 6Owners of the Motor Vessel "Lillian S" v Caltex Oil (Kenya) Ltd4×
  7. 7CMC Holdings v Nzioki3×
  8. 8Hassan Guyo Wakalo vs Straman EA Ltd3×
  9. 9National Bank of Kenya Limited v Ndungu Njau3×
  10. 10Owners of Motor Vessel "Lilian S" v Caltex Oil (Kenya) Limited3×
  11. 11Patel v EA Cargo Handling Services Ltd3×
  12. 12Butt v Rent Restriction Tribunal2×
  13. 13Clarke and Others v Chadburn & Others2×
  14. 14D.T. Dobie and Company (Kenya) Ltd vs Muchina2×
  15. 15Eastern Bakery v Castelino2×
  16. 16Econet Wireless Kenya Ltd v Minister for Information & Communication of Kenya & another2×
  17. 17Godeka v Middle Town Forex Bureau Limited2×
  18. 18KTDA and Another v Samuel Njuguna and 1153 Others2×
  19. 19Kenya Chemical & Allied Workers v. Eveready Batteries Kenya Ltd.2×
  20. 20Kenya Engineering Workers Union v Kenya General Industries Limited2×
  21. 21Kenya Science Research International Technical and Allied Workers Union (KSRITAWU) v Stanley Kinyanjui and Magnate Ventures Ltd2×
  22. 22Kenya Shoe and Leather Workers Union v Crown Industries Limited & Another2×
  23. 23Kenya Tea Growers Association v Francis Atwoli & 5 Others2×
  24. 24Kenya Tea Growers Association v Kenya Plantation & Agricultural Workers Union2×
  25. 25Kenya Union of Commercial, Food & Allied Workers v. Avery Kenya Ltd2×

Who dissents

Judges who wrote separately most often in the Industrial.

No separately-recorded dissents in the corpus.

Name variants in the source judgments are collapsed.

Bench size

How many judges sat on each judgment.

  • 1 judge
    147
  • 2 judges
    5
  • 3 judges
    36
  • 5 judges
    1

Most-interpreted legislation

What it hears

employment labour186burden of proof105remedies100civil procedure80contract law74damages71statutory interpretation69judicial discretion62fair hearing43natural justice37jurisdiction36limitation of actions18

Counts are drawn from AI-extracted briefs of every Industrial Court of Kenya 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.