What problem does it solve?
Legal researchers, academics, and professionals often waste time manually browsing the HUDOC database to find accurate European Court of Human Rights case law, structured metadata, and citation chains, risking errors from incomplete or misidentified sources.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Filtered Case Search: Run Lucene-style queries to find ECtHR cases by Convention article, respondent state, court instance, date range, or case name, with support for narrowing results to Grand Chamber judgments, admissibility decisions, or other document types.
- Full Document Retrieval: Fetch official judgment text with preserved paragraph numbering, downloadable PDFs for formal citation, or structured metadata including ECLI identifiers, invoked articles, and separate opinion flags for any HUDOC item.
- Citation Analysis: Extract every Strasbourg case cited in a judgment, plus use reverse lookup to find all later cases that reference a known judgment via its application number, supporting legal academic research and precedent tracking.
- Use Case: A human rights researcher writing a paper on Article 8 surveillance jurisprudence can quickly pull the full text of Big Brother Watch v. the United Kingdom, extract its cited case law, and find all subsequent Grand Chamber judgments that reference the ruling.
Quick Start
Ask Claude to retrieve the full judgment text and parsed citation list for the European Court of Human Rights case Big Brother Watch v. the United Kingdom, and it will automatically fetch the required documents and data for you.