Anti-Bot Protection Placeholder for ScotIC Case 051_2026
Summary
BAILII displays an Anubis anti-bot protection page when accessing Scottish Inner House case 051_2026. The protection uses a Hashcash-style proof-of-work scheme to impede AI scraping while allowing legitimate users. Users with JavaScript-blocking plugins such as JShelter must disable them to access the underlying decision.
What changed
BAILII Scotland deployed Anubis anti-bot protection on its decision pages to prevent mass AI web scraping, which causes server downtime. The system implements a proof-of-work challenge requiring JavaScript execution, blocking access for users with privacy plugins that disable modern JavaScript features.
Legal researchers and practitioners accessing Scottish Inner House decisions on BAILII should ensure JavaScript-blocking extensions are disabled for the bailii.org domain. The underlying case 051_2026 ScotIC remains inaccessible until the proof-of-work challenge is satisfied.
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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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