Common portal of case law
The Common Portal of Case Law is a meta search engine which helps users to find the case law of European Supreme Judicial Courts. The Common Portal, with full functionality, is freely available to everyone on the website of the Network.
As a meta search engine, the Common Portal does not have its own database of jurisprudence. Instead, the Common Portal, which is integrated with national case law databases:
- carries out a search on a national case law database in different languages,
- retrieves the search result and
- displays the search result.
The Common Portal permits parallel searches on the case law databases of the European Supreme Judicial Courts represented in the Network by their Presidents.
Three automatic translation tools – Google Translate, Deepl and the translation tool of the European Commission – have been integrated into the Common Portal which enables the users of the Portal to access and read court decisions in any language supported by these tools.
The Common Portal was created in 2006 to improve access to national case law. The project was launched with the help of the European Commission and has been followed by the European Council’s “e-Law” and “e-Justice” working groups.
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Selection of Case Law
Search Instructions
- Make sure you are entering your search words in the right language.
- Proper nouns will not be translated.
- Search by ECLI is not available for all search engines.
Search engines
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Selected target search engines
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Unselected target search engines
