Hi Ben, an unusual channel for me to speak to you :)
Each case does have an ID, but I haven't seen them in one place. There is a horribly outdated website here: http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/onlineservices/xhibit/court_lists.htm which is the source of the scraped information here: http://causelist.org/ It looks like there is an attempt at modernisation here (new to me): http://www.justice.gov.uk/guidance/courts-and-tribunals/courts/daily-court-hearings.htm Hope that helps! Donny. On 3 August 2011 12:50, Ben Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > As part of a little experiment into tracking down sources of news articles, > I was wondering if there was any good way to track down information about UK > court cases? > > In my hopelessly naive idealised view of the world, each court case would > have a nice, permanent, URL on a .gov.uk site somewhere which pulled > together all the public information pertaining to that case - title, > participants, schedules, name of court, transcripts (are they public?), > whatever... > And obviously it'd be a simple matter of typing a few relevant keywords > into a search engine to find said URL. > > But of course out here in the real world, the web (particularly the > govt-run bits) is a big steaming heap of useless poo. > I've just spent an hour or so trying to track down _anything_ official > about a court case mentioned in a story, with no luck :-( > > Can anyone tell me how I - someone with no detailed legal knowledge - > should go about such a task? > > (if anyone is interested, it's a High Court challenge, mentioned in this > article: > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/**news/article-2021670/Indian-** > Vali-Chapti-UK-migration-**racism-row-insists-wont-learn-**English.html<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2021670/Indian-Vali-Chapti-UK-migration-racism-row-insists-wont-learn-English.html> > ) > > I'm sure at least one person named Francis will have a strong opinion on > this sort of thing ;-) > > Thanks, > Ben. > (coder at the Media Standards Trust) > > ______________________________**_________________ > developers-public mailing list > developers-public@lists.**mysociety.org<[email protected]> > https://secure.mysociety.org/**admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/** > developers-public<https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public> > > Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/**admin/lists/mailman/options/** > developers-public/donovanhide%**40gmail.com<https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/donovanhide%40gmail.com> >
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