Ireland Courts Judgments Scraper
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Ireland Courts Judgments Scraper
Scrape judgments from courts.ie — Ireland's official Courts Service portal. Extracts case titles, neutral citations, court, judge, judgment dates, and PDF links from the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, and specialist lists.
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Scrape judgments from courts.ie — Ireland's official Courts Service portal. Extracts structured data from the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, and specialist lists including case titles, neutral citations, judge names, and PDF links.
What This Actor Does
Paginates the courts.ie "Recently Uploaded Judgments" listing at www2.courts.ie/judgments. Each listing row provides:
- Case title — full parties title (e.g. "Smith -v- Commissioner of An Garda Síochána")
- Neutral citation — parsed from the PDF filename (e.g.
[2026] IEHC 352) - Court — High Court, Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, etc.
- Judge — presiding judge's name
- Judgment date — date delivered
- Judgment URL — direct link to the PDF on courts.ie
- Parties — normalized party names derived from case title
- Category — court-level classification
- Date uploaded — date the judgment was added to the portal
Input
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
maxItems | integer | Maximum number of judgments to return. Use 10 for testing, omit for all available records. |
Output
Each item in the dataset represents one judgment:
Coverage
The listing at /judgments shows the ~300 most recently uploaded judgments (100 per page, 3 pages). The portal covers:
- Supreme Court — final appellate decisions, constitutional matters
- Court of Appeal — civil and criminal appeals
- High Court — general, Judicial Review, Commercial, Family
- Specialist lists — Competition, Planning, IP, etc.
Data Source
This actor scrapes the publicly accessible, server-rendered judgments portal operated by the Courts Service of Ireland. Judgments are published under the Public Sector Information (PSI) Directive. The actor respects the Crawl-delay: 10 declared in robots.txt.
Use Cases
- Legal research and case tracking for Irish law
- Building databases of Irish case law
- Monitoring new judgments in specific courts or subject areas
- Academic legal research and citation analysis
- Competitive intelligence for litigation in Irish jurisdiction
