As part of a little experiment into tracking down sources of news
articles, I was wondering if there was any good way to track down
information about UK court cases?
In my hopelessly naive idealised view of the world, each court case
would have a nice, permanent, URL on a .gov.uk site somewhere which
pulled together all the public information pertaining to that case -
title, participants, schedules, name of court, transcripts (are they
public?), whatever...
And obviously it'd be a simple matter of typing a few relevant keywords
into a search engine to find said URL.
But of course out here in the real world, the web (particularly the
govt-run bits) is a big steaming heap of useless poo.
I've just spent an hour or so trying to track down _anything_ official
about a court case mentioned in a story, with no luck :-(
Can anyone tell me how I - someone with no detailed legal knowledge -
should go about such a task?
(if anyone is interested, it's a High Court challenge, mentioned in this
article:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2021670/Indian-Vali-Chapti-UK-migration-racism-row-insists-wont-learn-English.html
)
I'm sure at least one person named Francis will have a strong opinion on
this sort of thing ;-)
Thanks,
Ben.
(coder at the Media Standards Trust)
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