Legal Research

Courtsdesk

Est. 2015 Ireland Updated 2026-03-19
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Irish/UK court data platform providing litigation search, tracking, and analytics. Online data portal with 593,000+ Irish court cases. Serves legal professionals, journalists, news media, corporate compliance, and private investigators. Founded by an Irish journalist. Operated by Courts Data Solutions. Award-winning service (per LinkedIn). MAJOR UK CONTROVERSY (Feb 2026): UK Ministry of Justice ordered deletion of CourtsDesk’s UK magistrates’ court data archive — covered by WealthBriefing, MSN, Reddit r/ukpolitics. The deletion order creates a compliance headache for firms using the data. CourtsDesk launched a new Irish digital court data service (Feb 2026) as an alternative focus. Provides case tracking with plaintiffs, defendants, judges, upcoming hearings. Help centre exists. No G2/Capterra reviews. Pricing: subscription-based, no public pricing found.

Company Info

  • Founded: 2015
  • Team size: 1-10 employees
  • Funding: $545.7K
  • HQ: Ireland
  • Sector: Legal Research

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Workflows

Based on practitioner evidence, Courtsdesk is used in these workflows:

What practitioners struggle with

Real frustrations from legal professionals — the problems Courtsdesk addresses (or should address). Sourced from practitioner reviews, Reddit threads, and case studies.

When my litigation team needs state trial-court filings and rulings across counties and courts, I want them searchable in one place, so I'm not sending associates to a patchwork of local court sites and still missing the motion that changes the case.

Research & Analysis 2 vendors affected Small firm (2–10) · Mid-size firm (11–50) · Large firm (51–200) · In-house counsel

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