Judges
Every judgment in the corpus is attributed to the bench that delivered it, and every judge carries a record of what they decided and how they reasoned. Search a name, filter by court or era, then read the decisions themselves.
Most judgments delivered
Ordered by the number of judgments each judge has delivered in the corpus. A judge is credited with a judgment where the coram names them and the text records it as theirs; otherwise the whole bench carries it.
The busiest judge in the corpus. Mostly constitutional petitions and judicial review, disposed of on jurisdiction or on the leave stage rather than on the merits.
Dismissal and redundancy claims, and a steady line of rulings on the ELRC's own jurisdiction over disputes that are said to arise out of contract rather than employment.
Land and environment appeals, and a recurring concern for whether the court below had power to hear the matter at all before it reached the merits.
Constitutional interpretation and devolution. Writes long, closely reasoned judgments that set the framework the lower courts then apply.
The Court's most frequent dissenter on procedure — certification, extension of time and the limits of the Court's appellate remit.
Commercial and constitutional work, with a consistent line on when a point of law is of general public importance enough to reach the Court at all.
Presides over a Court that disposes of most applications on jurisdiction or certification. Short, procedural judgments that rarely travel past the pinpoints in the record.
Media law, gender equality and the two-thirds rule — and the Court's most substantial dissents, including the presidential petition of 2017.
Coverage by court
Judge counts are the number of judges who have delivered at least one reported judgment in that court, sitting or retired.
| Court | Judges | Judgments | Share of corpus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supreme Court KESC | 11 | 312 | 0.3% |
| Court of Appeal KECA | 78 | 6,904 | 6.9% |
| High Court KEHC | 964 | 71,238 | 71.5% |
| Employment and Labour Relations Court KEELRC | 412 | 12,441 | 12.5% |
| Environment and Land Court KELC | 377 | 8,708 | 8.7% |
| All courts | 1,842 | 99,603 | 100% |
Frequently asked questions
- How is a judge's record built?
- Each judgment is read for its coram line. The bench is extracted, matched against the judge register, and the judgment is attributed to every judge who sat. Where the text names the author of the judgment, that judge is credited with writing it; where it does not, the record shows the bench as a whole.
- What counts as one judgment?
- A single delivered decision. A ruling on an application and the judgment on the merits are counted separately, because they are reported separately and are cited separately.
- How are dissents and separate opinions handled?
- They are indexed against the judge who wrote them, and never counted twice. Every case brief with a split bench shows the majority and the minority positions side by side, each with a pinpoint to the paragraph.
- Can I see the bench for a particular case?
- Yes. Every brief lists its coram with a link to each judge's profile, and any search can be filtered by judge — so you can read a line of authority as one judge has developed it.
Put a judge's record beside your argument.
See how a bench has treated the point you are running, and read the judgments either way — the majority and the dissent.