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pjc50today at 2:10 PM3 repliesview on HN

This is odd; this is supposed to be public information, isn't it? I suspect it's run into bureaucratic empire-defending rather than a nefarious scheme to conceal cases.

Relatedly, there's an extremely good online archive of important cases in the past, but because they disallow crawlers in robots.txt: https://www.bailii.org/robots.txt not many people know about it. Personally I would prefer if all reporting on legal cases linked to the official transcript, but seemingly none of the parties involved finds it in their interest to make that work.


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flufluflufluffytoday at 6:09 PM

It is public information. The private company whose database is being deleted processed the public information into an easier to search and consume dataset

cl0ckt0wertoday at 2:24 PM

bureaucratic empire-defending is nefarious.