Courts Service Judgment Search
Search for judgments on the Courts Service website. Judgments are available from the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.
Access signed copies of unreported judgments handed down by the Superior Courts via the Law Society Library’s online catalogue (login required).
Search for case law on the British and Irish Legal Information Institute’s website.
Irish Case Law
WestlawIE (Irish Law Reports Monthly, Employment Law Reports, unofficial versions of unreported judgments)
vLex (Irish Reports, signed copies of unreported judgments)
Decisis Law Reports ( Reports of Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and High Court judgments from 2011)
UK Case Law
Lexis+UK (Includes All England Law Reports, the Irish Reports and other specialised law report series)
WestlawUK (Includes the ICLR Law Reports, Weekly Law Reports, transcripts of unreported judgments and other specialised law report series)
Unreported judgments are copies of judgments as handed down by the courts. From 2003 on, all judgments circulated by the Courts Service are assigned a neutral citation as per examples below. All cases before the High Court will be also have a separate High Court record number that can be used to track the progess of a case before a judgment is handed down.
The Law Society Library's online catalogue is available to solicitors, trainees and students enrolled on courses at the Law Society. Signed copies of unreported judgments handed down by the Superior Courts can be accessed via the library’s online catalogue (login required). Abstracts and electronic links to signed copies of judgments are available for each case. Please contact the library for your login details or if you have any difficulty using the online catalogue.
There are two main reports series of cases for judgments handed down by the Suoerior Courts in Ireland: the Irish Reports and the Irish Law Reports Monthly. Both reports series include headnotes for cases in addition to copies of the judgments, and the names of the solicitors and barristers acting for both the applicants and respondents.
The library has produced a practical guide for legal practitioners and students on mitigating the risks of hallucinations in AI generated case law searches. The number of cases where generative AI is producing inaccurate, false or fictitious information in the form of fake citations is increasing. In order to mitigate the potential risks involved, the library recommends that users check the results of any AI generated searches against reliable sources to verify that the cases actually exist.
