Anti-Bot Challenge Blocks Access to IEHC 2026/213
Summary
The High Court of Ireland case IEHC 2026/213 (Party v Party) is inaccessible due to an anti-bot challenge page deployed by BAILII. The website has implemented Anubis, a proof-of-work protection system, to prevent aggressive AI web scraping. Users must complete a JavaScript-based proof-of-work challenge to access the underlying case content.
What changed
The BAILII website has deployed a technical anti-bot protection mechanism that prevents automated access to legal case documents. This protection uses a proof-of-work scheme similar to Hashcash to deter mass scraping by AI systems. Users must disable certain browser plugins (such as JShelter) and enable JavaScript to proceed.
For legal professionals and researchers relying on automated case monitoring, this technical barrier requires adjusting scraping methodologies or manually accessing documents. The underlying case IEHC 2026/213 remains available through the challenge mechanism but is not directly accessible via standard automated tools.
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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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