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Bot Verification Page - Northern Ireland Court of Appeal

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Summary

BAILII displays a bot verification page for Northern Ireland Court of Appeal case 2025/NICA/70, requiring proof-of-work completion before accessing the underlying judgment. The page explains that administrator-configured anti-scraping technology protects the site against automated data extraction. This is not a legal ruling but a technical access-control barrier.

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What changed

No regulatory change occurred. The BAILII website displays a bot-verification challenge requiring JavaScript-based proof-of-work before allowing access to the underlying court judgment. This is a technical access-control mechanism, not a legal or regulatory instrument.

Affected parties seeking the underlying Northern Ireland Court of Appeal decision should complete the proof-of-work challenge or disable JavaScript-blocking browser extensions for this domain. No compliance obligation or legal consequence arises from this page itself.

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Apr 21, 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
Branch
Judicial
Legal weight
Non-binding
Stage
Final
Change scope
Minor

Who this affects

Applies to
Legal professionals
Industry sector
9211 Government & Public Administration
Activity scope
Case access
Geographic scope
United Kingdom GB

Taxonomy

Primary area
Judicial Administration
Operational domain
IT Security
Topics
Judicial Administration

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