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Built for the island of Ireland.
One island, two legal systems — and one continuous conversation between them. The courts of Ireland and Northern Ireland cite each other constantly, yet legal technology has always treated the island as two afterthoughts on the edge of a British or global product.
Casefinch starts here instead. The senior courts of both jurisdictions are indexed together, citations resolve across the border, and treatment — whether an authority still stands — is tracked island-wide. Research the way the island's legal community actually works.
The workflow
From question to filed document.
Follow one matter through Casefinch — every step grounded in the primary record of the island's courts.
01 — Ask
Ask the case law.
Describe the issue in plain language. Casefinch retrieves the judgments that address it and composes an answer in which every proposition carries the paragraph that supports it. Nothing citable, nothing said.
Answer
A court may strike out proceedings by applying a three-step test [2021] IEHC 573 ¶34: the delay must be inordinate, it must be inexcusable, and the balance of justice must favour dismissal [2023] IEHC 701 ¶3.
02 — Verify
Trust, then verify — at document scale.
Check any citation in seconds, or drop in a whole draft: every authority checked for existence and treatment, fabrications flagged before they reach a judge.
03 — Legislation
Is the law under this section still standing?
Every litigated provision, ranked by the courts' own attention — with a computed stability signal drawn from the treatment of its leading authority: settled, caution, or shifted.
04 — Explore
Walk the citation network.
Every case sits in a web of authority. See who followed it, who distinguished it, who overruled it — and click through the graph the way precedent actually works.
05 — Watch
Know the moment the ground moves.
Save the cases and provisions a live matter relies on. Every night Casefinch reads the new judgments — if one disturbs your authorities, you hear about it first.
Your case [2011] IEHC 275 overruled was overruled by
BOI Mortgage Bank v Cody
[2021] IESC 26
06 — Write
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The test is established in [2019] IEHC 74 and requires three elements [2015] IEHC 314…
“there is a serious issue to be tried”
Coverage
Every court that matters here, back to first principles.
The index is rebuilt continuously from the primary record and spans the senior courts of both jurisdictions — including the judgments most services never digitised. English and UK authorities cited by these courts are indexed alongside.
Northern Ireland
- Court of Appeal (NICA)1998 –
- High Court, King's / Queen's Bench1994 –
- High Court, Chancery1998 –
- High Court, Family2000 –
- Crown Court1999 –
- High Court, Masters2000 –
Ireland
- Supreme Court (IESC)1965 –
- Court of Appeal (IECA)2014 –
- High Court (IEHC)1878 –
- Court of Criminal Appeal1983 – 2025
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