Published 24 August 2026
Court case monitoring: what can actually be automated
A case you know about is watched by number. The cases you do not know about yet are only caught by watching the party.
Two different things
Watching a case means: you have the number and want to know when a hearing or a solution appears. Watching a party means: you want to know when your client — a person or a company — turns up in a new case nobody told you about. The second brings information you did not have; the first only saves you the checking.
What can be automated properly
The courts portal exposes a search service anyone may use, within reason: a sane request rate, no aggressive scraping, and no republishing of party lists. Serious monitoring means a controlled rate, retries when the portal is down, and backing off automatically when it starts erroring — otherwise you load a free public service until it shuts you out.
What deserves checking more often
Not every case needs the same attention. A case with no hearing coming up can be checked once a day. A case with a hearing today deserves re-checking through that day: times change, panels change, the solution appears in the evening. That is where information is usually lost — not on the quiet days.
How it works here
LexAgenda syncs linked cases daily and re-checks the ones with a hearing that day. Party monitors catch new cases where the watched name appears, and company monitors follow firms at the Trade Register by CUI or application number. The free tier includes one party monitor and 25 cases under watch, no card.