UK Case Law Alerts
When a newly published judgment mentions your phrase, you hear about it.
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Find Case Law, run by The National Archives, publishes judgments as a stream of case law updates. This app watches that stream for your phrase and tells you when a matching judgment is published there. The day a judgment appears on Find Case Law can be later than the day it was handed down.
This app reads FEED METADATA only — case name, court, neutral citation, date and link. Judgment text is never downloaded, stored or reproduced. No sign-in, no account, no personal details. Your phrase is matched against the full text of the judgment by Find Case Law itself, so a match may not appear in the case name.
What it does
- A notification on your phone when a newly published judgment matches your saved search, checked every 6 to 24 hours — with the court, the neutral citation, the date and a link to the official copy
- Follow a doctrine, a statute, a company or a client name
- The phrase is matched against the FULL TEXT of the judgment by Find Case Law's own search, not just against the case name
- Narrow to any of twenty-two courts and tribunals, each verified against the feed before it shipped
- Metadata only — judgment text is never downloaded, stored or reproduced
How you set it up
You create one watch — for example “unfair dismissal, Employment Appeal Tribunal” — and close the app. At the interval you choose it checks newly published judgments and tribunal decisions; when a judgment matching your phrase is published your phone gets a notification. It never tells you about the same thing twice.
Who it is for
Solicitors, barristers, paralegals and in-house counsel who need to know when their area moves.
What it does not do
- It does NOT download, store or reproduce judgment text. It gives you the citation and a link; the official copy is the one that counts.
- It does NOT sign in and never asks for personal details.
- It asks for no account. No sign-up, no password.
- The developer collects no personal data and adds no analytics or crash reporting. In the free version the Google Mobile Ads SDK collects IP address, app interactions, diagnostics and device IDs (see Data safety).
- The free tier shows Google AdMob ads: a bottom banner, rewarded ads you start yourself and an “Ad”-labelled card inside the list; no full-screen ads between pages or on launch. Paid members see no ads and no ad request is made.
Version history
0.19.0 (2026-10-21)
- Your membership is now checked with Google Play every time you open the app, so ad-free use starts or ends without opening Settings.
- Membership plans that are not on sale in Google Play are no longer offered.
0.18.0 (2026-10-09)
- New watches get their first check without waiting for the next round; the daily data estimate is no longer too low.
- Free watches full? An optional rewarded ad adds 2 more watches for 24 hours.
0.17.0 (2026-10-02)
- Fix: on phones, Check now and watches stopped with a “not valid Atom” error, so no judgments were listed, a watch could not record its starting list and no alert could arrive. The Find Case Law feed is now read correctly.
Permissions
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE | To avoid pointless attempts while offline, and to tell mobile data from Wi-Fi. |
INTERNET | To reach the public Find Case Law feed. |
POST_NOTIFICATIONS | To tell you a matching judgment was published. That is the whole app. |
READ_BASIC_PHONE_STATE | So the ads library can tell Wi-Fi from mobile data. It grants no access to your phone number, IMEI or call log; the app does not declare it, the ads library adds it. |
RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED | So your watches resume after the phone restarts. |
VIBRATE | To vibrate when a notification arrives. |
WAKE_LOCK | So the phone does not fall asleep in the middle of a check. The app does not ask for this itself; the background work library (Android Jetpack WorkManager) adds it. |
BILLING | So you can buy a paid membership through Google Play. The app does not declare this permission itself; the Google Play Billing library adds it. Your payment details (card, address, invoice) never reach the app and are never seen or stored by it — Google Play takes the payment. All the app learns is whether your membership is active. |
AD_ID | Ads in the free tier are served by Google AdMob, which may read the device advertising ID (AAID). The app does not declare this permission itself; the ads library adds it. Paid members make no ad request at all. You can reset or delete the ID in Settings › Google › Ads. |
Source
Where the data comes from: the public Atom feed at https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk — published by The National Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Justice - Licence v2.0.
UK Case Law Alerts is an independent app. It is not developed, endorsed or supported by The National Archives, HM Courts & Tribunals Service or the judiciary.