Legal research for Ireland & Northern Ireland

Cite with certainty.

Casefinch answers legal questions from the case law itself — every answer anchored to the judgment paragraph that supports it, every authority checked for how the courts have treated it since.

MK (Albania) v Minister for Justice[2022] IESC 48 · ¶ 20

“The final question invokes a proportionality or weighing assessment, balancing the right of the individual as against the rights of the sovereign state: is such interference proportionate to the public end sought to be achieved?”

Applied ×3 · Followed ×219 citing judgments · no negative treatment
28,000+
Judgments indexed
790,000+
Paragraphs, individually citable
100,000+
Citation links between cases
11
Courts, 1878 to today

Why Casefinch

Research tools should be held to the same standard as the lawyers who use them.

01

Verifiable by design

Casefinch answers from retrieved judgments only — every proposition is anchored to the numbered paragraph that supports it, linked to the full text. If an authority can't be produced, an answer isn't given. No invented citations, ever.

02

Is it still good law?

Every case in the index carries its citation record: who has followed it, applied it, distinguished it — or held it wrongly decided. The question every practitioner asks before relying on an authority, answered before you cite it.

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Built for this island's law

Irish and Northern Irish case law as the first-class citizens, not an afterthought to English coverage — from the Irish High Court's earliest reports to judgments handed down this term, with the English authorities they cite alongside.

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

Confidentiality

Built for professional obligations.

Your research stays yours

Queries and documents are never used to train models, never shared, and are deleted on request.

Hosted in the UK & EU

Data remains within UK and EU jurisdictions, with encryption in transit and at rest.

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