What Obiter holds, where it comes from, and how it is assembled. Judgments are stored in full from the official record and indexed so a point of law can be traced to its source. Legislation is in development and will join the same record.
How the record is built
Source to surface
01 · Sources
Primary material, from the official record
Judgments come from curated public sources, including Find Case Law, under licence from The National Archives. Legislation will come from the official statute book.
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02 · Normalisation
Turned into a citable structure
Each document is parsed into paragraphs, its neutral citation, court, division and date extracted, and its references to other cases and provisions resolved into links.
Judgments sit in a single index with their citations resolved. Legislation is in development and joins the same index, so a point of law can be traced from the judgment to the provision it turned on.
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04 · Surfaces
What you work with
Search, matters, Verify and Redact all read from the same record. Nothing is paraphrased into a separate store, so every result can be taken back to its source.
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What is covered
England & Wales
Case law Live
Supreme Court and House of Lords
Court of Appeal, Civil and Criminal
High Court — King’s Bench, Chancery, Family
Upper Tribunal and First-tier Tribunal
Reported and unreported, with the judgment text held in full rather than in summary.
Legislation On the roadmap
Acts of Parliament
Statutory instruments
Planned as amended text with the provision as it stood on a given date. Legislation search is on the roadmap; case law search is live in the workspace today.
