justicedao/ipfs_world_courts

Staged locally 2026-11-05T21:36:39-08:00 (America/Los_Angeles) for push review. Not uploaded in this run.

Row counts

• courts: 437
• courthouses: 555
• judges: 130
• forms: 249
• rules: 2732

Per country (normalized)

• GB: courts=430, courthouses=429, judges=0, forms=0, rules=300
• DE: courts=0, courthouses=0, judges=0, forms=0, rules=1082
• CA: courts=0, courthouses=0, judges=93, forms=0, rules=938
• IE: courts=5, courthouses=125, judges=0, forms=249, rules=444
• EU: courts=2, courthouses=1, judges=37, forms=0, rules=0

Licence / attribution (required)

• United Kingdom (HMCTS / GOV.UK / MoJ): Open Government Licence v3.0 (OGL v3.0), © Crown copyright — except where otherwise stated. Attribution: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Canada — Justice Laws Website (laws-lois.justice.gc.ca): Reproduction of Federal Law Order (SI/97-5); federal law may be reproduced without charge/permission with accuracy + not-official caveat.
• Canada — Supreme Court of Canada (scc-csc.ca): May reproduce material in whole or in part for non-commercial purposes without charge or further permission (accuracy + attribution required).
• Germany — gesetze-im-internet.de (ZPO): Official statutes are amtliche Werke, not copyright-protected (§5(1) UrhG).
• Ireland — Courts Service (courts.ie): Re-use permitted under PSI Regulations / PSI licence (CC BY 4.0-compatible): acknowledge source & copyright; accurate; not misleading.
• EU — CJEU Curia (curia.europa.eu): Editorial content and case-law may be reproduced provided the source is acknowledged (cite "Court of Justice of the European Union"; do not distort; mark changes).

Skipped (terms forbid or unverified)

NZ (Crown copyright; other uses need permission), SG (all rights reserved), SCTS/Ontario/FR annuaire/NG (terms unverified), KE/IN/US territories (pending terms). Private publishers (Westlaw, Lexis, FindLaw, Justia) skipped.

Collection rules

Keyless public official sources only; HTTPS + TLS verify; ≤1 req/10s/host or robots Crawl-delay; stop host on first 403/429/challenge; forms as url+sha256 only; judges limited to public official name/court/title. Nested rule fields JSON-encoded in record (sorted keys) for Arrow/datasets safety.