What the Find Case Law API does

The Find Case Law API allows you to access court judgments and tribunal decisions held by Find Case Law as data.

‘API’ stands for ‘Application Programming Interface’, meaning software that allows two computer applications to share information.

Our API provides access to judgments and decisions held by Find Case Law that have been converted from Microsoft Word documents into XML, a machine-readable file format. These have been automatically marked up according to the international data standard, LegalDocML, and validated by our legal editorial team. This data includes:

1. Neutral citation
2. Court / Chamber
3. Date
4. Case Name
5. Party Names
6. Judges Names

The Find Case Law API makes this LegalDocML data accessible through Atom feeds, which allow you to keep track of recently published or updated judgments. You can find more details and guidelines in our API documentation .