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Bot Verification Page Blocking Legal Case Access

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Summary

BAILII deployed Anubis, a proof-of-work anti-bot protection system, as a placeholder blocking access to legal case documents. The system is designed to reduce AI web scraping by adding computational overhead at scale while distinguishing legitimate users from automated crawlers. Users must enable JavaScript and disable anti-tracking plugins to proceed.

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What changed

This is not a regulatory document. The BAILII website deployed an anti-bot verification page (Anubis) using a Hashcash-style proof-of-work scheme. The page imposes no compliance obligations on any party. The page serves as a technical barrier between automated scrapers and legal case content.

Implications for affected parties: None. Compliance officers, legal professionals, and other regulated entities are not required to take any action in response to this page. The content is a technical placeholder, not a court ruling, regulation, or guidance document.

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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
International
Legal weight
Non-binding
Stage
Final
Change scope
Minor

Who this affects

Industry sector
5112 Software & Technology
Activity scope
Bot protection deployment
Geographic scope
United Kingdom GB

Taxonomy

Primary area
Cybersecurity
Operational domain
IT Security
Topics
Data Privacy

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