De Rechtspraak (Raad voor de Rechtspraak)

De Rechtspraak is the Dutch judiciary. The Raad voor de Rechtspraak (Council for the Judiciary), an independent administrative body founded in 2002, publishes its case-law decisions as open data — the successor to the earlier DUIT/LJN web service.

Databases from De Rechtspraak (Raad voor de Rechtspraak)

Open Data van de Rechtspraak

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The Dutch judiciary's own open-data program for case law: ECLI-indexed decisions from every Dutch court, searchable by court, legal area, document type, and date, with over 800,000 full, pseudonymized rulings currently published (a larger index exists, but most older entries carry only case metadata rather than full text). Access runs through the official Open Data feed plus the LiDO citation graph, which links each decision to the cases, statutes, and literature it cites. Available today via the open-source rechtspraak-mcp server (no API key) for Claude and other MCP clients — tools cover faceted search, full-text retrieval by ECLI (single or batch), a filter catalog of valid courts and legal areas, and LiDO-based related-case lookup. Every result links back to the official rechtspraak.nl page and the stable deeplink.rechtspraak.nl citation URL.

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