UK Court Judgments Watchdog

Get alerted the moment a new England & Wales court or tribunal judgment naming a company, a person, or a legal keyword you care about is published — before it shows up in any news search or law-firm newsletter.

Where the data comes from

Find Case Law is The National Archives' official public register of England & Wales court and tribunal judgments, published under the Open Justice Licence. It exposes a free, keyless Atom feed built for exactly this kind of monitoring — search, court filter, date range and pagination are all first-class query parameters. No login, no scraping, no API key, no terms-of-service workaround.

Coverage includes the High Court (all divisions), the Court of Appeal, the Employment Appeal Tribunal, the Upper Tribunal, the First-tier Tribunal (Tax and General Regulatory Chamber), the Privy Council and the Supreme Court. Judgments typically appear within days of being handed down — often faster than they are picked up by general news search.

Who this is for

• Law firms and litigation funders tracking new judgments against a named defendant, competitor, or in a practice area.
• Journalists and researchers watching for newsworthy rulings (employment disputes, consumer claims, regulatory appeals) the moment they are published.
• Credit, risk and compliance teams who want an early signal when a counterparty is named in High Court commercial or insolvency litigation.
• Recruiters and HR/employment consultants watching Employment Appeal Tribunal decisions for a sector or employer.

How to use it

1. Enter a search term — a company name, a person's name, or a keyword (e.g. "unfair dismissal"). At least a search term or a court code is required.
2. Optionally narrow to one court with its code (see table below), and/or a date range (YYYY-MM-DD) to catch only recent judgments.
3. Optionally add a watch label to tell several saved searches apart when comparing runs or datasets.
4. Run it — each judgment found becomes one row in the dataset, with the case name, neutral citation, court, publication date, and links to the judgment page and PDF.
5. Schedule the Actor (e.g. daily) with a narrow date range (dateFrom = a few days ago) to get a rolling watch instead of scraping the same history every time.

Common court codes

Code	Court
ewhc	High Court (all divisions)
ewhc/comm	High Court — Commercial Court
ewhc/ch	High Court — Chancery Division
ewhc/kb	High Court — King's Bench Division
ewhc/admin	High Court — Administrative Court
ewhc/fam	High Court — Family Division
ewhc/tcc	High Court — Technology and Construction Court
ewhc/ipec	High Court — Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
ewca/civ	Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
ewca/crim	Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
eat	Employment Appeal Tribunal
ukut/iac	Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
ukut/aac	Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
ukut/tcc	Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber)
ukut/lc	Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber)
ukftt/tc	First-tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber)
ukftt/grc	First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber)
uksc	Supreme Court
ukpc	Privy Council

Leave the court field empty to search across all of them.

Output example

{
  "watch_label": "Morrisons litigation",
  "status": "ok",
  "case_name": "KP McConnell v WM Morrisons Supermarkets Ltd",
  "citation": "[2026] EAT 149",
  "court": "Employment Appeal Tribunal",
  "date_published": "2026-09-25",
  "date_updated": "2026-09-25",
  "judgment_url": "https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/eat/2026/149",
  "pdf_url": "https://assets.caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/.../....pdf",
  "fclid": "t6nj4v3m",
  "fetched_at": "2026-09-28T10:15:00+00:00",
  "error": null
}

If your input combination is invalid, or Find Case Law cannot be reached, a single row is returned with status set to invalid_input, http_error, network_error or parse_error and the reason in error — you are never charged for that row.

FAQ

Is this legal / does it breach any terms of use? Find Case Law is published by The National Archives specifically for reuse, under the Open Justice Licence, and its Atom feed is designed for exactly this kind of programmatic search and monitoring. This Actor only reads that public feed — it does not log in anywhere, bypass a paywall, or scrape a site that disallows automated access.

Does it cover Scotland or Northern Ireland? No — Find Case Law covers England & Wales courts and UK-wide tribunals sitting there. Scottish and Northern Irish judgments are published on separate registers.

How far back does it go? Coverage is strongest from 2001 onward for the higher courts, and grows every day as new judgments are handed down; older judgments are added on an ongoing basis by The National Archives.

Can I run this on a schedule? Yes — combine a fixed query/court with a rolling dateFrom (e.g. "3 days ago") on an Apify schedule to get a daily or weekly alert of anything new, instead of re-fetching full history each time.

Related Actors

If you also need UK company-level context alongside a judgment (registered office, filing history, PSCs), pair this with Companies House Watchlist or Corporate KYC Intelligence from the same developer.