⚖️ UK Courts and Tribunals Judgments Scraper

🚀 Export UK court and tribunal judgments in seconds. Pull structured records from The National Archives' Find Case Law service straight into CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-25 · 📊 7 fields per record · 70k+ judgments · all UK courts and tribunals on the official register

The Find Case Law service at The National Archives is the official source for UK senior court judgments and tribunal decisions. This scraper reads the public Atom feed and turns each judgment into a structured record with title, URL, court, publication and update dates, and a direct link to the official Akoma Ntoso XML document.

Coverage includes the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Privy Council, Court of Appeal (Civil and Criminal Divisions), High Court (Chancery, KBD, Family), Court of Protection, Upper Tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal, First-tier Tribunals (Tax Chamber and others) and many more. You can filter by court slug, run a free-text query, and choose newest-first or relevance-sorted ordering.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Solicitors, barristers, paralegals, legaltech engineers, journalists, academics	Build case-law alert feeds, populate research databases, train UK legal NLP, monitor specific tribunals, prepare litigation dossiers

📋 What the UK Courts and Tribunals Scraper does

• Pulls the latest judgments and tribunal decisions from Find Case Law
• Supports optional free-text query and court-slug filters
• Returns title, URL, court name, publication date, update date, and the official XML link
• Sorts by date (newest or oldest) or by relevance
• Exports clean tabular data to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

💡 Why it matters: UK case law products and academic studies need machine-readable judgments. This Actor delivers them in seconds with the official Akoma Ntoso XML link included.

🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
query	string	No	Free-text search query
court	string	No	Court slug filter (e.g. ewca/civ, ukut, eat)
order	select	No	Sort order. Default newest first.
maxItems	integer	No	Max records to return. Free plan capped at 10.

{
    "order": "-date",
    "maxItems": 10
}

{
    "query": "judicial review",
    "court": "ewhc/admin",
    "order": "-relevance",
    "maxItems": 50
}

⚠️ Good to Know: The Find Case Law register covers senior courts and tribunals only. Magistrates' Court and County Court decisions are not typically published there.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
📌 title	string	Judgment title
🔗 url	string	Find Case Law judgment URL
🏛️ court	string	Court or tribunal name
📅 publishedDate	string	First publication date
🔄 updatedDate	string	Last update timestamp
📄 documentXmlUrl	string	Official Akoma Ntoso XML URL
🕒 scrapedAt	string	Run timestamp
❌ error	string	Null on success

Sample record:

{
    "title": "NHS Kent & Medway Integrated Care Board v OQD & Anor",
    "url": "https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewcop/t3/2026/23",
    "court": "Court of Protection (Tier 3 - high court judges)",
    "publishedDate": "2026-05-22T00:00:00+00:00",
    "updatedDate": "2026-05-22T14:13:54+00:00",
    "documentXmlUrl": "https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewcop/t3/2026/23/data.xml",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-25T17:46:02.873Z",
    "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

🔥 Reason	Why it matters
🆓 No account or token required	Run immediately
🏛️ Every senior UK court and tribunal	Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, UT, FtT
📄 Akoma Ntoso XML links	Production-grade legal markup, ready for downstream tooling
⚡ Atom-feed source	Stable structure, fast responses
🔁 Schedule daily	Build alerts on a budget

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Setup	Cost	Output Quality
Find Case Law API direct	None, but no normalization	Free	Raw XML
Westlaw / LexisNexis	Heavy contracts	Expensive	Excellent
This Actor	None	Pay-per-use	Clean tabular

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 credit
2. Open the UK Courts and Tribunals Scraper
3. Optionally set query, court, or order
4. Set maxItems
5. Click Start and download CSV / Excel / JSON / XML when finished

💼 Business use cases

Legaltech case alerting

Schedule daily runs on the courts your clients monitor. Push deltas to your platform.

Compliance and risk

Track tribunal decisions in regulated industries, including tax, employment, and immigration.

Academic research

Build training corpora for UK legal NLP using clean Akoma Ntoso documents.

Journalism

Surface fresh High Court rulings for newsroom coverage without manual checking.

🔌 Automating UK Courts and Tribunals Scraper

Pipe results into Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, or Google Drive via Apify integrations.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Research

Study sentencing trends, judicial reasoning, and tribunal outcomes over time.

Personal

Track judgments by a specific judge or chamber.

Non-profit

Power legal aid dashboards and rights-monitoring projects.

Experimentation

Train and benchmark UK legal LLMs against the official corpus.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Do I need an account? A: No. The Atom feed is fully public.

Q: Which courts are covered? A: Supreme Court, Privy Council, Court of Appeal, High Court, Court of Protection, Upper Tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal, First-tier Tribunals, and more.

Q: How fresh is the data? A: Mirrors the official register, typically same-day.

Q: Do I get full judgment text? A: The record includes the official XML URL. Fetch that URL for the full document.

Q: Can I filter by court? A: Yes. Use the court slug parameter.

Q: How do I search by keywords? A: Use the query parameter.

Q: Can I export to Excel? A: Yes. Apify exports CSV, Excel, JSON, XML.

Q: How do I schedule daily? A: Use Apify Schedules.

Q: Is this affiliated with The National Archives? A: No. It is independent.

Q: Will it break if the feed changes? A: We monitor and update.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: This is an independent tool not affiliated with The National Archives or any UK court. Only publicly available data published on Find Case Law is collected.