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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 we have

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 case will

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 data cleaning

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…

high court cases by date

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.

UK employment tribunal

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.