Dataset Card generated by Kimi K2.6 Dataset Card for bailii 260505 Dataset Summary This dataset contains ~551,000 documents crawled from BAILII, covering judgments, decisions, legislation, and transcripts from courts and tribunals across the United Kingdom, Ireland, the European Court of Human Rights, the European Court of Justice, and other related jurisdictions. The dataset preserves both the raw HTML content and extracted metadata (court, date, parties, citations, etc.) for each document. Dataset Details Dataset Description Language(s): English Crawl date: 2026 05 05 Dataset Sources Source Website: https://www.bailii.org Uses Direct Use Suitable for: Legal NLP research and training (case law summarisation, citation extraction, legal reasoning) Academic research into judicial decisions, legislation, and tribunal outcomes Historical analysis of legal trends across UK, Irish, and EU jurisdictions Information retrieval and semantic search over legal documents Dataset Structure Schema Column Type Description path string URL path on BAILII title string Document title citation string Neutral citation date string Document date (e.g. "18 December 1958" ) case number string Case / cause n…
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