Anti-bot Verification Page
Summary
BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute) has deployed Anubis, a proof-of-work anti-bot protection system, on its Irish case pages. The system presents a JavaScript-based verification challenge to visitors, blocking access to the underlying case content. Users attempting to retrieve case 2026IEHC204 are required to complete the verification before proceeding.
What changed
BAILII added an Anubis proof-of-work verification page to its Irish High Court case pages. The system requires visitors to execute JavaScript-based challenges to prove they are not automated scrapers. Case 2026IEHC204 is currently inaccessible behind this verification wall.
Legal researchers, practitioners, and other users attempting to access Irish case law through BAILII will encounter this verification step. The system is designed to add computational overhead for mass scraping while minimally impacting individual legitimate users. No compliance obligations are created by this infrastructure change.
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Making sure you're not a bot!
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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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