Legal records
Find Case Law judgments are not in Institrace yet. We have applied to The National Archives for bulk access under the Open Justice Licence. Until that is granted we hold none of those courts. Employment Tribunal decision metadata and a short list of statutes are already held under the Open Government Licence. They are not a substitute for Find Case Law.
How it will work
Judgments will sit beside committee papers, not inside Documents. We will store the citation, the court, the date and the named parties, then link to the Find Case Law record. The full text stays with The National Archives.
Where a judgment names a registered company, the company number is the join. A party name alone is not treated as a person in the index.
The first set is five courts: the Administrative Court, the Technology and Construction Court, the Employment Appeal Tribunal, the General Regulatory Chamber, and the Chancery Division. Find Case Law listed about 32,688 published judgments in those courts on 19 August 2026. That is their count, not ours. 26 other courts are planned later.
What we will not do
We will not host full judgment text. We will not run a generative model on that text. We will not give legal advice. We will not treat a party name as a person record. We will not mix judgments into Documents, where they would look like board packs.
Courts we have applied to index
Named in the 19 August 2026 application. Published counts are what Find Case Law listed that day.
| Court | Why it matters | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Administrative Court | Judicial review of council, NHS, and regulator decisions. | 13,422 |
| General Regulatory Chamber | FOI appeals and information rights. ICO decisions referred here. | 7,464 |
| Chancery Division | Company law, trusts, property, insolvency, director disqualification. | 9,022 |
| Technology and Construction Court | Construction contracts and public procurement. | 1,956 |
| Employment Appeal Tribunal | Public-sector employer appeals. | 824 |
Later courts
These stay planned until we have agreement to add them.
- Court of Appeal Civil
- Tax Chamber
- Lands Chamber
- Care Standards
- King's Bench Division
- Commercial Court
- Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals
- Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum
- Land Registration Division
- UK Supreme Court
- Privy Council
- Court of Appeal Criminal
- Family Division
- Court of Protection
- Family Court
- Patents Court
- Special Immigration Appeals Commission
- Upper Tribunal Tax and Chancery
- Senior Courts Costs Office
- County Court
- Crown Court
- Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
- Admiralty Court
- Information Tribunal
- VAT and Duties Tribunal
- Special Commissioners of Income Tax
Other legal sources
Find Case Law is the judgment corpus. It uses the Open Justice Licence, not the Open Government Licence. Bulk use needs a grant.
legislation.gov.uk and recent Employment Tribunal decisions on GOV.UK are separate. They use the Open Government Licence. Those rows are already in their own tables. They are not a substitute for Find Case Law, and they are not Documents.
Find Case Lawlegislation.gov.ukEmployment Tribunal decisions
Legal questions
Do you hold court judgments?
Not yet. We applied for bulk access under the Open Justice Licence on 19 August 2026. The homepage Legal block counts courts in that application, not judgments we hold. Nothing is loaded until The National Archives grants access.
Why is Find Case Law not under the Open Government Licence?
The National Archives publishes judgments under the Open Justice Licence. Computational analysis is allowed. Bulk access needs a grant. The application was sent on 19 August 2026. We will not load judgments until that grant is in force.
Why will judgments not sit in Documents?
Documents is the paper corpus: agendas, minutes, packs and similar files from a website we track. Judgments are a legal corpus. We will store the citation, the court, the date and the named parties, then link to Find Case Law. We will not reproduce the full text. Mixing that into Documents would make a judgment look like a board pack.
How will a judgment join to a company or a person?
Where a judgment names a registered company, the company number is the join. A party name alone is not treated as a person in the index.
Which courts are planned first?
The first set is five courts: Administrative Court, Technology and Construction Court, Employment Appeal Tribunal, General Regulatory Chamber, and Chancery Division. Other courts wait until we have agreement to add them.