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Bot Verification Page Blocks Access to Scottish Court Case

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Summary

BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute) displays a bot verification page requiring users to complete a proof-of-work challenge before accessing Scottish court case 2026scgla43. The page explains that the Anubis anti-bot system uses Hashcash-style proof-of-work to deter AI web scraping while allowing legitimate human access.

What changed

This is a bot verification/captcha page, not the underlying court case. The page implements Anubis, a proof-of-work anti-bot system based on Hashcash principles, to protect BAILII servers from AI scraping. Users must complete a computational challenge before accessing case documents.

Legal professionals and researchers seeking case 2026scgla43 will need to disable blocking plugins and enable JavaScript. The verification creates a minor access barrier but imposes no compliance obligations on regulated entities.

What to do next

  1. Complete bot verification to access case content
  2. Disable JShelter or similar plugins for this domain
  3. Enable JavaScript to proceed

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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
9211 Government & Public Administration
Activity scope
Legal case access Web scraping protection
Geographic scope
United Kingdom GB

Taxonomy

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

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