UK Case Law Search & Monitor
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UK Case Law Search & Monitor
Search UK court judgments from The National Archives. Filter by court, judge, party or keyword. Returns structured metadata and full text. Licensed for commercial use under the Open Justice Licence.
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Search and monitor UK court judgments and tribunal decisions from The National Archives Find Case Law service.
Filter by keyword, court, judge, party name, or date range. Results include metadata, neutral citations, and links to the full judgment. Optionally fetch the complete judgment text.
Data licensed under the Open Justice Licence — commercial use permitted.
What this actor does
- Searches across all UK courts and tribunals: Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court (all divisions), Upper Tribunals, Employment Appeal Tribunal, First-tier Tribunals
- Returns structured metadata: case name, neutral citation, date, court, judge(s), party names, links to HTML/PDF/XML versions
- Optionally fetches the full text of each judgment for document analysis, AI processing, or legal research
- Supports change monitoring via content hashes — run on a schedule to detect when judgments are updated or new ones published
- Paginates automatically through large result sets
Example use cases
Law firms & barristers — Monitor new decisions in your practice area. Set a schedule to alert on new Employment Tribunal or High Court judgments matching your keywords.
Legal tech & AI — Bulk-extract structured judgment text for LLM fine-tuning, legal RAG pipelines, or case analysis tools.
Insurance & financial services — Track FCA-regulated entity litigation, Upper Tribunal (Tax) decisions affecting your sector.
HR & Employment — Monitor Employment Appeal Tribunal decisions for policy-relevant precedent.
Compliance teams — Track regulatory litigation, judicial review of government decisions, competition law rulings.
Academic researchers — Extract structured datasets of judgments by court, year, or topic for empirical legal studies.
Output fields
Each result contains:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
title | Case name (e.g. "Smith v Jones") |
neutralCitation | Official citation (e.g. "[2024] EWCA Civ 123") |
fclIdentifier | Find Case Law internal ID |
documentUri | Stable machine-readable URI |
dateHandedDown | Date judgment was handed down (YYYY-MM-DD) |
dateUpdated | Date last updated in Find Case Law system |
court | Court or tribunal name |
contentHash | SHA256 hash of judgment text (for change detection) |
urlHtml | Link to human-readable judgment page |
urlXml | Link to structured LegalDocML XML |
urlPdf | Link to PDF version |
identifiers | All identifiers (neutral citation + FCL ID) |
fullText | Full judgment text (only if "Include full text" is enabled) |
Courts available
| Code | Court |
|---|---|
uksc | UK Supreme Court |
ukpc | Privy Council |
ewca/civ | Court of Appeal (Civil) |
ewca/crim | Court of Appeal (Criminal) |
ewhc/kb | High Court (King's Bench) |
ewhc/ch | High Court (Chancery) |
ewhc/fam | High Court (Family) |
ewhc/comm | High Court (Commercial) |
ewhc/pat | High Court (Patents) |
ewhc/tcc | High Court (Technology & Construction) |
ewhc/admin | High Court (Administrative) |
eat | Employment Appeal Tribunal |
ukut/iac | Upper Tribunal (Immigration & Asylum) |
ukut/tax | Upper Tribunal (Tax & Chancery) |
ukut/lc | Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) |
ukftt/tc | First-tier Tribunal (Tax) |
ukftt/grc | First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory) |
Scheduling & monitoring
This actor works well on a schedule. To monitor for new judgments in a specific area:
- Set a keyword query (e.g.
"unfair dismissal") and a court (eat) - Set
orderBytoNewest first - Set
maxResultsto 10–20 - Schedule to run daily or weekly via Apify's scheduler
Use the contentHash field to detect when existing judgments are amended.
Rate limits & performance
The National Archives API allows up to 1,000 requests per rolling 5-minute window per IP. This actor automatically respects this limit with built-in throttling and exponential backoff on errors.
Typical run times:
- 50 results (metadata only): ~30 seconds
- 50 results (with full text): ~3–5 minutes
- 500 results (metadata only): ~5 minutes
Data licence
All judgment data is sourced from Find Case Law and is published under the Open Justice Licence v1.0. This permits copying, distribution, transmission, and commercial use, subject to attribution requirements. See the full licence at caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/open-justice-licence.
Attribution statement: Contains information licensed under the Open Justice Licence v1.0.
