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Making Irish Planning Applications more accessible

Making Irish Planning Applications more accessible

We are pleased to announce a new and unique search capability to Vizlegal: planning applications. Practitioners, planning consultants, property developers and other construction professionals told us that it is difficult, cumbersome or sometimes impossible to search and monitor planning applications across all 31 local authority planning portals in Ireland. To

NewLaw characteristics - what your law firm need to know - Ireland, UK, US

Embracing NewLaw: Transformative strategies and benefits for Law Firms

NewLaw is a modern term used in the legal sector. The present article explains its main characteristics. A vision that many law firms in Ireland, UK and the US are adopting as their own.

Vizlegal wins British and Irish Association of Law Librarians Supplier of the Year Award 2023

Vizlegal wins British and Irish Association of Law Librarians Supplier of the Year Award 2023

Dear valued clients and legal community, I am delighted to share some exciting news with all of you. Vizlegal has been honoured with the prestigious BIALL Supplier of the Year Award! This award is a recognition of our team's dedication, hard work, and commitment to excellence in the

Revolutionising Legal Research: Discover the power of legal SaaS for professionals with Vizlegal

Revolutionising Legal Research: Discover the power of legal SaaS for professionals with Vizlegal

In today's fast-paced legal landscape, solicitors, barristers, and planning consultants need efficient tools to navigate through the complexities of the legal system. Traditional legal research methods can be time-consuming and laborious. However, Vizlegal is here to revolutionise the way lawyers access, search and track legal information through over

Expanded Coverage:
Irish Valuation Tribunal

Expanded Coverage: Irish Valuation Tribunal

Following on from our announcement last week of the addition of England & Wales Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) decisions, we are very pleased to announce (🎉) the next addition to our coverage, Valuation Tribunal decisions for Ireland. As the Tribunal states: "The Tribunal is an independent body set up under

Expanded coverage: Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber)

At Vizlegal we're on a mission to make legal information accessible - and that includes continuing to expand across both geographies and time. To that end, we are very pleased to announce (🎉) the next addition to our coverage, Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) decisions for England & Wales. As

New coverage: UK Competition Appeal Tribunal

New coverage: UK Competition Appeal Tribunal

Vizlegal has again expanded our coverage while improving searchability, flitering and trackability. We're delighted to announce our latest expansion of coverage - to the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). The expansion covers about 5,000 documents with cases, judgments, transcripts and orders spanning 2001 to 2023. As always

Timelines of CJEU cases

Timelines of CJEU cases

Hi everyone, We're delighted to announce that our Timeline feature is now rolling out to an additional source: the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Customers told us this will save them time when searching for decisions or AG Opinions - as every step in a

Announcing Vizlegal Timelines

Announcing Vizlegal Timelines

*Tap tap* is this on? Ok it's been a while since we talked about Vizlegal updates, but we can safely say we had a very busy summer, much of it involving data cleaning... Everyone loves to talk about AI in law, not many talk about the less glamorous

Purchase England & Wales
High Court documents

Purchase England & Wales High Court documents

You can now purchase England and Wales court documents via Vizlegal.

New Feature:
Requesting High Court Orders

New Feature: Requesting High Court Orders

You can now order Court Orders via Vizlegal in just two clicks

Our May update

What’s new in Vizlegal this month? Well quite a bit! We are excited to share a summary of some of the new features and improvements our team has been working on throughout May. And make sure to keep an eye out for more updates in the coming weeks.

April update

With some excellent feedback, we have been working hard on some great new features that we are really excited to share with you all. But first a summary of recent activity:

Rules update October 2020

Two Circuit Court Rule amendments have been published and one came into operation on September 30th. As usual we have consolidated the rules and formatted them to be easy to read or print (and inserted links to relevant primary legislation and Forms).

Vizlegal product update — Sep 2020

Vizlegal product update — Sep 2020

Time for a @Vizlegal product update! We’ve been making a whole series of tweaks and improvements under the hood — as well as some more…

Litigation in COVID19 Ireland

Litigation in COVID19 Ireland

At Vizlegal we collect data every day from multiple courts and jurisdictions -including all new cases being filed in the Irish High Court each day. Over recent years we would see 15–16,000 new cases filed each year.

Adding UK Employment Appeals to Vizlegal

Adding UK Employment Appeals to Vizlegal

We know everyone is working from home like us at Vizlegal — and as a team that has always worked remotely we’re conscious of how difficult…

Recent Irish Practice Direction and other court changes due to COVID-19

Recent Irish Practice Direction and other court changes due to COVID-19

There have been a raft of changes over the past 10 days due to COVID-19. Here’s the key ones.

Re-building Irish court rules from the ground up

Re-building Irish court rules from the ground up

Today, Vizlegal are very pleased to launch version one of our consolidated rules of the Irish courts. This will come as an additional feature for current customers, such as tracking/searching our hundreds of thousands of court judgments, High Court filings/listings, and Circuit Court Diaries.

The plumbing and pipes of law

The plumbing and pipes of law

AI is all the rage these days — but there are more fundamental issues. When you look at legal systems you realise things are far from pretty; legal information is a mess, and someone needs to fix it.

Mapping 50,000 citations between European Court of Justice rulings

Mapping 50,000 citations between European Court of Justice rulings

We mapped how the CJEU cites itself across all its decisions.

State of Georgia -v- Denver Allen gets ‘Rick and Morty’ treatment

State of Georgia -v- Denver Allen gets ‘Rick and Morty’ treatment

Readers may recall that in June 2016 a court transcript appeared of an interaction between Judge Bryant Durham Jr. and a defendant by the name of Denver Fenton Allen.