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Since the the Industrial Relations Court commenced hearings in 1999, it has physically been present in 2 main business districts of Malawi that is Blantyre and Lilongwe. To this end the IRC had been branded a court for city dwellers. In  bid to make labour and employment justice accesible to all, the IRC iniated a pilot project on court circuits with funding from Danish Institute of Human Rights (DIHR) in 2005. The court circuits were conducted in high employment prevalent districts such as Mulanje, Thyolo, Chikwawa. Owing to the success of the project then the court circuits were extended to the following districts: Zomba in the Southern Region; Salima , Kasungu and Nkotakota in the Central Region and Mzuzu and Karonga in the Northern Region; again targeting high employment prevalent districts.

In 2009 the court circuits have further expanded to the following districts : Mwanza, Mangochi and Liwonde in the Southern Region;  Ntchisi, Mponela and Dowa  in the Central Region and Mzimba and NkhataBay in the Northern Region.

All in all the court visits 17 districts on circuit and the hearings do take place at a magistrate court in the particular district. This is in fulfillment of the IRC vision to make labour and employment justice accessible to all.