Which legal sources does Andri search?

Andri searches its own indexed copies of official case law, legislation and regulatory material for the Netherlands, the European Union, the United Kingdom and the Crown Dependencies, and Switzerland. On top of that it queries a small set of public registers live, at the moment you ask. The jurisdiction you pick when you create a case decides which of these sources are used.

Netherlands

• Rechtspraak: published decisions of the Dutch courts, from the Hoge Raad down to the district courts.

• Tuchtrecht: disciplinary decisions from tuchtrecht.overheid.nl.

• Wetten: consolidated national legislation, including orders in council and ministerial regulations.

• Procesreglementen: the procedural rules of the Dutch courts.

• Lokale regelgeving: municipal, provincial and water authority regulations.

• Officiële bekendmakingen: Staatsblad, Staatscourant, Kamerstukken and Handelingen.

European Union and the European Court of Human Rights

• EUR-Lex, in both Dutch and English.

• The European Commission document register.

• Supervisory guidance from ESMA, EBA and EIOPA.

• HUDOC: the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights.

United Kingdom and the Crown Dependencies

• Case law from BAILII and from Find Case Law at the National Archives.

• legislation.gov.uk, including assimilated EU law.

• The Civil, Family and Criminal Procedure Rules, and Sentencing Council guidelines.

• Decisions and guidance from regulators and tribunals: the FCA, CMA, ICO, HMRC, the Employment Tribunal, the Competition Appeal Tribunal, the First-tier Tribunal (Tax), the Immigration and Asylum Chamber, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, the Environment Agency, the MHRA, the Food Standards Agency, the Gambling Commission, IPSO, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, the Office of Rail and Road, the Civil Aviation Authority, Ofcom, Ofgem, Ofwat, the Charity Commission, the Electoral Commission, the Pensions Regulator, the Trade Remedies Authority, HM Land Registry, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, the National Audit Office, the National Crime Agency and the Office for Nuclear Regulation.

• Isle of Man legislation.

• Jersey legislation and judgments.

Switzerland

Swiss sources are available to firms that have the Swiss jurisdiction enabled. They cover federal and cantonal case law through entscheidsuche.ch, federal legislation through Fedlex, Geneva cantonal legislation, competition decisions from WEKO, and legal doctrine from onlinekommentar.ch and sui-generis.ch. Federal legislation from Fedlex is indexed in German, in its current version.

Registers we query live

These are not indexed corpora. Andri calls them while it answers, so you get the register's current state.

• KVK, the Dutch commercial register.

• The Centraal Insolventieregister, which needs a KVK number to search.

• The BOIP trademark register.

• Regels op de kaart, for the rules that apply at a location under the Omgevingswet.

• Companies House.

• The FCA Register of firms and individuals.

How often the sources are updated

Collection runs on a schedule that differs per source, from daily to monthly.

• Daily: court decisions, official publications, EU legislation, UK legislation, and regulators including the FCA, CMA, ICO, HMRC and the Employment Tribunal.

• Weekly: the UK procedure rules and sentencing guidelines, Swiss and Isle of Man legislation, and regulators including Ofcom, Ofgem, Ofwat and the Charity Commission.

• Monthly: Dutch national legislation, the Dutch court procedural rules, and UK assimilated EU law.

A decision published today may therefore not be searchable until the next collection run.

Sources we do not index

These come up regularly and are not part of our corpus: Kifid, De Geschillencommissie, the Raad van Arbitrage voor de Bouw, NOvA guidance, the Kenniswijzer of the Raad voor Rechtsbijstand, the Belastingdienst's own guidance, and the treaty database Verdragenbank.

You can still work with a document from one of these. Upload it to your case, or paste the link into the chat and ask Andri to read the page.

Looking up a specific decision

To pull up a known decision, paste its ECLI into the chat. Write it with colons or underscores, so ECLI:NL:HR:2024:437 and ECLI_NL_HR_2024_437 both reach the same decision. Other separators such as dots or dashes may not be recognised as an ECLI.

If we hold nothing under an ECLI you wrote that way, Andri tells you it found nothing rather than offering a similar case.

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