Find Case Law vs GovInfo

Find Case Law is a free web and API service for published court judgments and tribunal decisions. Coverage includes England and Wales, plus UK-wide cases from the Supreme Court and Privy Council. Users can search judgment text and details such as court name or neutral citation, then filter by date, court or tribunal, party, or judge. Results can be downloaded as PDFs, printed, saved, or shared through links to individual judgments. Reading, downloading, quoting, research, and commercial use are free under the Open Justice Licence, with no account required for those uses. Computational analysis requires a separate licence. Judgments come directly from courts and tribunals, and the service describes itself as the official public source for what it publishes. The collection is not comprehensive: most magistrates’ court decisions and cases restricted from publication are excluded. Find Case Law is provided by The National Archives with justice-sector partners and offers technical and general support.

GovInfo is a free web and API service providing public access to official publications from all three branches of the U.S. Federal Government. Users can browse by alphabet, category, date, committee, or author, and search publication metadata. The API exposes content and metadata in self-describing packages, while selected collections offer machine-readable bulk files such as XML with schemas, stylesheets, and guides. Searches cover case law, statutes and regulations, and legal commentary, including opinions from more than 100 U.S. courts. PDF files receive digital signatures and a visible authenticity seal that can be checked in Adobe Acrobat or Reader. The preservation repository keeps at least two geographically separate archival copies, weekly backups, a standby recovery instance, virus scanning, and fixity checks; GPO reports ISO 16363:2012 certification from December 28, 2018. The responsive site works on mobile without a separate app or URL. A public-preview MCP server supports integrations with large-language-model workflows. Full text is limited to publications stored on GovInfo.