European e-Justice Portal

Case law made available on a website

Presentation of decisions / Headline

	Supreme courts	Other courts
Case law presented with headlines	Yes	Yes

The headlines are in the form of a sentence, or a few sentences, describing the core of the case.

Example of headline/s

“Question concerning the buyers of a property return; errors of the property within a reasonable time after they noticed or should have noticed the error.”

Formats

Case law is available in HTML format.

Further proceedings

	Supreme Courts	Other courts
Is information available as to appeals?	No	No
as to whether a case is still pending?	No	No
as to the result of appeals?	No	No
as to the irrevocability of the decision?	No	No
as to further proceedings before another internal court (Constitutional Court…)? the European Court of Justice? the Court of Human Rights?	No	No

The system contains only judgements which have entered into legal force.

Publication rules

	on the national level?	on the level of courts?
Are there binding rules for the publication of case law	Yes	Yes

There is a governmental ordinance regulating, among other things, how to publish personal data on the case law database.

	Supreme Courts	Other courts
Is full case law published or only a selection?	only a selection	only a selection

The same ordinance also states that the court itself decides which decisions should be recognised as guiding and published in the database.

Supreme Courts

Other courts

Are court decisions made available on the web anonymised?

Yes

If yes,

all decisions?

Yes

Last update: 22/10/2015

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