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Summary

BAILII displayed an anti-bot verification page blocking access to EUECJ case C15524 (2026). The website implemented Anubis, a proof-of-work system using Hashcash-style challenges to deter automated scraping by AI companies. No substantive legal content was accessible.

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GovPing monitors BAILII Europe Recent Decisions for new courts & legal regulatory changes. Every update since tracking began is archived, classified, and available as free RSS or email alerts — 56 changes logged to date.

What changed

The BAILII website blocked access to EUECJ case C15524 (2026) with an anti-bot verification challenge. The site operator deployed Anubis, a proof-of-work system, to mitigate mass scraping by AI companies. No actual case content was retrieved.

No compliance obligations arise from this access page. Parties seeking the referenced case should attempt access through alternative EU legal databases or retry with JavaScript enabled and anti-bot extensions disabled.

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Apr 22, 2026

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You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.

Anubis is a compromise. Anubis uses a Proof-of-Work scheme in the vein of Hashcash, a proposed proof-of-work scheme for reducing email spam. The idea is that at individual scales the additional load is ignorable, but at mass scraper levels it adds up and makes scraping much more expensive.

Ultimately, this is a placeholder solution so that more time can be spent on fingerprinting and identifying headless browsers (EG: via how they do font rendering) so that the challenge proof of work page doesn't need to be presented to users that are much more likely to be legitimate.

Please note that Anubis requires the use of modern JavaScript features that plugins like JShelter will disable. Please disable JShelter or other such plugins for this domain.

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Classification

Agency
BAILII
Instrument
Notice
Branch
Judicial
Legal weight
Non-binding
Stage
Final
Change scope
Minor

Who this affects

Applies to
Legal professionals Researchers
Industry sector
5112 Software & Technology
Activity scope
Legal database access
Geographic scope
European Union EU

Taxonomy

Primary area
Judicial Administration
Operational domain
Legal
Topics
Judicial Administration

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