Rule 24 of The Employment and Labour Relations Court (Procedure) Rules: Filing procedures

(1) A party shall file pleadings electronically and shall, within seven days of the filing, supply the Court
with one hard copy of the pleadings or such number of hard copies as the Court may direct.
(2) Each electronic and hard copy of pleadings shall be in a bundle properly arranged with a table of
contents, paginated and appropriately flagged.
(3) A party shall indicate the physical address, postal address, email address and telephone number on
all the filed pleadings at the ‘Drawn and Filed by’ section.
(4) Each advocate filing pleadings on behalf of a party shall indicate the advocate’s Law Society of
Kenya registration number and the current practicing certificate number.
(5) Each State Counsel who files pleadings on behalf of a party shall indicate his or her the Law Society
of Kenya registration number.
(6) The Court shall allocate a case number to each suit at the time of initial filing and that number shall
be indicated on every subsequent document filed in the suit.
(7) The claimant shall, after filing a suit, cause it to be served by a qualified process server on the
respondent; claimant or the claimants advocate or other person authorized by the claimant.
(8) Once filed, matters shall be allocated on an automatic basis sequentially to courts in a particular
station where more than one judge sits.
(9) Where suits are allocated under subrule (8), the matter shall be handled by the Court to conclusion
unless the Court, upon recorded reasons, orders otherwise.