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Anubis Anti-Bot Verification Page - Scottish Court of Session

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Summary

BAILII Scotland displays an anti-bot verification page (Anubis) instead of case content. The page explains that the website uses a Proof-of-Work scheme to deter aggressive AI scraping that causes downtime for legitimate users. Users must enable JavaScript and disable anti-detection plugins like JShelter to proceed.

What changed

This is not a court decision but rather a technical placeholder page displayed by BAILII Scotland when anti-bot verification is triggered. The Anubis system implements a Proof-of-Work challenge similar to Hashcash to make mass scraping by AI companies computationally expensive and disruptive to their operations.

For users encountering this page, no regulatory action is required. Users simply need to ensure JavaScript is enabled and any browser anti-detection extensions are disabled for the BAILII domain to proceed to case content.

What to do next

  1. Disable JShelter or other anti-detection plugins for BAILII domain
  2. Enable modern JavaScript features to access case content

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Apr 13, 2026

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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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Classification

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

Who this affects

Applies to
Legal professionals Courts
Industry sector
5112 Software & Technology
Activity scope
Website access Bot protection
Geographic scope
Scotland GB-SCT

Taxonomy

Primary area
Judicial Administration
Operational domain
IT Security
Topics
Data Privacy Cybersecurity

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