ipfs_world_courts_directory

A combined directory of courts and courthouse locations, one row per court/registry/tribunal, built from published country packs (schema: scrapers/courts_schema.py, plus a source_repo column naming the country repo and commit). Each row keeps its own license, source_url, source_retrieved_at, source_sha256, facility_kind and geo_source.

Licences differ per row. Use the license column and the table below; there is no single licence for the whole dataset.

Rows

• total: 4523
• AU: 216
• BR: 118
• DE: 1358
• FR: 1773
• GB: 435
• NL: 259
• NZ: 364
• court_id collisions across sources: 0 (suffixed -2, -3 …)

Coverage (courthouse locations)

country	rows	with address	with lat/lon	jurisdiction_path depth (levels: rows)	max depth
AU	216	210	0	2: 216	2
BR	118	0	0	1: 34, 2: 84	2
DE	1358	0	0	1: 8, 2: 1350	2
FR	1773	1773	1773	1: 1773	1
GB	435	433	429	2: 435	2
NL	259	0	0	1: 243, 5: 16	5
NZ	364	346	344	1: 364	1

Subdivision depth = number of jurisdiction_path levels (1 = country only, 2 = state/region, 3+ = deeper).

Null counts per column (null, empty string or empty list)

column	all (4523)	AU (216)	BR (118)	DE (1358)	FR (1773)	GB (435)	NL (259)	NZ (364)
court_id	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
parent_court_id	4496	216	91	1358	1773	435	259	364
country	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
jurisdiction_path	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
jurisdiction_name	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
level	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
court_type	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
name	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
name_local	54	54	0	0	0	0	0	0
language	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
courthouse_id	3724	216	118	1358	1773	0	259	0
address_street	1761	6	118	1358	0	2	259	18
locality	1756	1	118	1358	0	2	259	18
region	4307	0	118	1358	1773	435	259	364
postcode	2124	23	118	1358	0	2	259	364
lat	1977	216	118	1358	0	6	259	20
lon	1977	216	118	1358	0	6	259	20
geo_source	1977	216	118	1358	0	6	259	20
phones	2194	8	118	1358	82	7	259	362
fax	3395	39	118	1358	823	435	259	363
email_institutional	2964	10	118	1358	1196	8	259	15
urls	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
hours	3220	57	118	1358	1323	44	259	61
ecli_code	4288	216	118	1358	1773	435	24	364
external_ids	58	58	0	0	0	0	0	0
source_url	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
source_retrieved_at	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
source_sha256	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
license	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
facility_kind	2170	0	118	1358	0	435	259	0
source_repo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Fully empty columns per country

• AU: parent_court_id, courthouse_id, lat, lon, geo_source, ecli_code
• BR: courthouse_id, address_street, locality, region, postcode, lat, lon, geo_source, phones, fax, email_institutional, hours, ecli_code, facility_kind
• DE: parent_court_id, courthouse_id, address_street, locality, region, postcode, lat, lon, geo_source, phones, fax, email_institutional, hours, ecli_code, facility_kind
• FR: parent_court_id, courthouse_id, region, ecli_code
• GB: parent_court_id, region, fax, ecli_code, facility_kind
• NL: parent_court_id, courthouse_id, address_street, locality, region, postcode, lat, lon, geo_source, phones, fax, email_institutional, hours, facility_kind
• NZ: parent_court_id, region, postcode, ecli_code

Validation

Schema validation (scrapers/courts_schema.py, validate_rows) was run on the 30-column courts schema subset of each row, because full rows fail on the extra source_repo column. Result: 0 errors. scrapers/test_pack.py checks the row count per country, unique court_id and schema validation.

Licence table (per source)

source repo (commit)	rows	per-row license label
endomorphosis/ipfs_uk_courts@87120b57	435	ogl-3.0
endomorphosis/ipfs_netherlands_courts@51a84084	259	rechtspraak-open-data-reuse
endomorphosis/ipfs_germany_courts@5304e7e1	1358	xrepository-codelist-public
endomorphosis/ipfs_france_courts@4dd4c570	1773	fr-justice-conflicting-terms
endomorphosis/ipfs_brazil_courts@40bc6bb5	118	cnj-siespj-public-data
endomorphosis/ipfs_newzealand_courts@622b9419	364	cc-by-4.0
endomorphosis/ipfs_australia_courts@46e118ad	216	cc-by-4.0

Included: UK, Netherlands, Germany, France, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia (NSW and VIC only).

France (fr-justice-conflicting-terms): the justice.gouv.fr terms are internally inconsistent. They name Etalab Licence Ouverte 2.0, then restrict use to personal, associative and professional purposes and forbid commercial use. No reuse right is claimed for the France rows; check the source terms yourself (see the France section below). France lat/lon origin is not stated by the source and may derive from OpenStreetMap: Contains data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL (if applicable).

Excluded: Ireland (v0: not yet verified/uploaded), Queensland (terms forbid redistribution), other AU states (terms or access).

endomorphosis/ipfs_uk_courts (commit 87120b57a8ed1a2fba3c604571924ed3fa980bd3)

Licence (as stated in the source repo README):

Licence: ogl-3.0, Open Government Licence v3.0, https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/. Basis: GOV.UK states all content is available under the OGL v3.0 except where otherwise stated. Attribution: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (HMCTS, Find a Court or Tribunal). Unofficial copy; the FaCT service remains authoritative.

(Quoted from https://huggingface.co/datasets/endomorphosis/ipfs_uk_courts/blob/87120b57a8ed1a2fba3c604571924ed3fa980bd3/README.md, retrieved 2026-10-30.)

Robots evidence (from the source repo README):

Robots evidence: https://www.find-court-tribunal.service.gov.uk/robots.txt checked 2026-10-26 16:20 PT, HTTP 404 (no robots file; under RFC 9309 no restrictions apply). Paths used: /courts?search=… and /courts/.json, 8 s pacing.

(Quoted from the same README, retrieved 2026-10-30.)

endomorphosis/ipfs_netherlands_courts (commit 51a84084ddadb19fe5676cfd9bd07945a1f9ad8b)

Licence (as stated in the source repo README):

• Licence stated by the source: none stated in the file; offered by de Rechtspraak via its public Open Data service (data.rechtspraak.nl) for re-use
• Re-use basis: public-sector information re-use (Wet hergebruik van overheidsinformatie / Open Data Directive)
• Attribution: Source: de Rechtspraak, data.rechtspraak.nl (Waardelijst Instanties)
• Licence label used in this dataset: rechtspraak-open-data-reuse (https://www.rechtspraak.nl/Uitspraken/paginas/open-data.aspx)

This is an unofficial copy of public information published by the source; the source website remains the authoritative version.

Robots evidence (from the source repo README):

• https://data.rechtspraak.nl/robots.txt checked 2026-10-26 16:20 PT: HTTP 404 (no robots file; under RFC 9309 no restrictions apply). Path used: /Waardelijst/Instanties (1 request).

endomorphosis/ipfs_germany_courts (commit 5304e7e15e8c13ade12a8200f3437d974212175d)

Licence (as stated in the source repo README):

• Licence stated by the source: none stated in the code list; published openly by KoSIT/AG IT-Standards in der Justiz as an XJustiz standard code list
• Re-use basis: official standard code list (amtliches Werk, § 5 UrhG, as part of a published standard); re-used with attribution
• Attribution: Source: XJustiz Codeliste GDS.Gerichte 3.7, XRepository (KoSIT)
• Licence label used in this dataset: xrepository-codelist-public (https://www.xrepository.de/details/urn:xoev-de:xjustiz:codeliste:gds.gerichte)

This is an unofficial copy of public information published by the source; the source website remains the authoritative version.

Robots evidence (from the source repo README):

• https://www.xrepository.de/robots.txt checked 2026-10-26 16:20 PT: HTTP 200, but the response is an HTML application page (text/html) with no robots directives, so no crawl restrictions can be determined from it. No claim of robots permission is made.
• The data source is the published XJustiz codelist GDS.Gerichte 3.7, offered by XRepository as a public genericode download (https://www.xrepository.de/api/version_codeliste/urn:xoev-de:xjustiz:codeliste:gds.gerichte_3.7/genericode); fetched once.

endomorphosis/ipfs_france_courts (commit 4dd4c57079c59af4b6acee9197d148ff224e89e3)

Licence (as stated in the source repo README):

• Licence stated by the source: justice.gouv.fr/mentions-legales (retrieved 2026-10-26 22:10 PT), section 'Réutilisation des contenus et droits d’auteur': "Sauf mention explicite de propriété intellectuelle détenue par des tiers, les contenus du site sont proposés sous licence ouverte https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/ETALAB-Licence-Ouverte-v2.0.pdf ." It continues: "Elles peuvent être reproduites librement, sous trois conditions : le respect de l’intégrité de l’information reproduite ; la citation explicite du ministère de la Justice comme source et précision de la date ; la mention selon laquelle les droits de reproduction sont réservés et strictement limités. Les informations utilisées ne doivent l'être qu'à des fins personnelles, associatives ou professionnelles. Toutes diffusions ou utilisations à des fins commerciales ou publicitaires est interdite."
• Re-use basis: NO REUSE RIGHT IS CLAIMED. The site's terms are internally inconsistent: they name Etalab Licence Ouverte 2.0, then restrict use to personal, associative and professional purposes and forbid commercial use. Users must check the source terms themselves. The data is court location and contact data only.
• Attribution: Source: ministère de la Justice, www.justice.gouv.fr (annuaire), retrieved 2026-10-26. Modified from source: fields extracted into a fixed schema. Not endorsed by the ministère de la Justice.
• Licence label used in this dataset: fr-justice-conflicting-terms (https://www.justice.gouv.fr/mentions-legales)

This is an unofficial copy of public information published by the source; the source website remains the authoritative version.

Robots evidence (from the source repo README):

• www.justice.gouv.fr: https://www.justice.gouv.fr/robots.txt HTTP 200 (re-read 2026-10-26 22:12 PT). User-agent * disallows only Drupal system paths (/core/, /profiles/, /admin/, /search/, /user/, /taxonomy/, /node/add/, /comment/reply/ ...). No crawl-delay stated; 8 s applied, single-threaded. 1826 /annuaire/fiche/ pages pulled, 0 disallowed. The sitemap /sitemaps/fiche/directory-sitemap.xml is allowed.

endomorphosis/ipfs_brazil_courts (commit 40bc6bb514c97eacb8de485c56dc0cba8b7645b3)

Licence (as stated in the source repo README):

• Licence stated by the source: no licence stated; public access to the SIESPJ database under CNJ Portaria n. 216/2012 and Lei 12.527/2011 (Lei de Acesso à Informação)
• Re-use basis: public data under Lei 12.527/2011 and CNJ Portaria 216/2012
• Attribution: Source: Conselho Nacional de Justiça (CNJ), Justiça em Números – Base de Dados
• Licence label used in this dataset: cnj-siespj-public-data (https://www.cnj.jus.br/pesquisas-judiciarias/justica-em-numeros/base-de-dados/)

This is an unofficial copy of public information published by the source; the source website remains the authoritative version.

Robots evidence (from the source repo README):

• https://www.cnj.jus.br/robots.txt checked 2026-10-26 16:20 PT: HTTP 200, 'User-agent: * Allow: /' (Disallow lines apply only to Googlebot). Paths used: /pesquisas-judiciarias/justica-em-numeros/base-de-dados/ and /wp-content/uploads/2026/06/23-jun-2026.zip — allowed.

endomorphosis/ipfs_newzealand_courts (commit 622b9419a7cc7c84af2d9afe41dd201d12374018)

Licence (as stated in the source repo README):

• Licence stated by the source: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (justice.govt.nz/copyright: "This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (BY) 4.0 International License"; excludes photography, Coat of Arms and third-party copyright)
• Re-use basis: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (as stated by the Ministry of Justice for its website content)
• Attribution: Source: New Zealand Ministry of Justice, justice.govt.nz
• Licence label used in this dataset: cc-by-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

This is an unofficial copy of public information published by the source; the source website remains the authoritative version.

Robots evidence (from the source repo README):

• https://www.justice.govt.nz/robots.txt checked 2026-10-26 17:10:43 PT: HTTP 200 (text/plain). Text: User-agent: * / Disallow: /*/allchanges / Disallow: /*/changes / Disallow: /assets/ / Disallow: /*/jdo / Disallow: /jdo_documents/.
• Path 1 /contact-us/find-us// (364 URLs): allowed. Path 2 /copyright/: allowed. Pacing 8 s+.

endomorphosis/ipfs_australia_courts (commit 46e118adf99178066d486667a40df56596cc9872)

Licence (as stated in the source repo README):

• Licence stated by the source: NSW: DCJ copyright statement (CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise stated). VIC: Court Services Victoria / MCV copyright page (CC BY 4.0 except logos, images and third-party content). Exact sentences, URLs and dates are in the 'Source terms per state' section.
• Re-use basis: CC BY 4.0. Only factual directory fields (court names, addresses, public phones, institutional emails, hours) are included. No logos, images, court lists or legislation are copied.
• Attribution: Contains information from the State of New South Wales (Department of Communities and Justice) and Court Services Victoria, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Modified from source.
• Licence label used in this dataset: cc-by-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

This is an unofficial copy of public information published by the source; the source website remains the authoritative version.

Robots evidence (from the source repo README):

• districtcourt.nsw.gov.au: https://districtcourt.nsw.gov.au/robots.txt HTTP 200, re-read 2026-10-26 21:02 PT; User-agent * rules include: Disallow: /preview; Disallow: /configuration; Disallow: /*.html?*; Disallow: /*search.html$; Disallow: /content/dcj/dcj-website/; crawl-delay none stated (8 s applied, single-threaded); 2 pages pulled, 0 disallowed (no query strings used)
• lec.nsw.gov.au: https://lec.nsw.gov.au/robots.txt HTTP 200, re-read 2026-10-26 21:02 PT; User-agent * rules include: Disallow: /preview; Disallow: /configuration; Disallow: /*.html?*; Disallow: /*search.html$; Disallow: /content/dcj/dcj-website/; crawl-delay none stated (8 s applied, single-threaded); 2 pages pulled, 0 disallowed (no query strings used)
• localcourt.nsw.gov.au: https://localcourt.nsw.gov.au/robots.txt HTTP 200, re-read 2026-10-26 21:02 PT; User-agent * rules include: Disallow: /preview; Disallow: /configuration; Disallow: /*.html?*; Disallow: /search.html; Disallow: /content/dcj/dcj-website/; crawl-delay none stated (8 s applied, single-threaded); 23 pages pulled, 0 disallowed (no query strings used)
• ncat.nsw.gov.au: https://ncat.nsw.gov.au/robots.txt HTTP 200, re-read 2026-10-26 21:02 PT; User-agent * rules include: Disallow: /preview; Disallow: /configuration; Disallow: /*.html?*; Disallow: /search.html; Disallow: /content/dcj/dcj-website/; crawl-delay none stated (8 s applied, single-threaded); 2 pages pulled, 0 disallowed (no query strings used)
• supremecourt.nsw.gov.au: https://supremecourt.nsw.gov.au/robots.txt HTTP 200, re-read 2026-10-26 21:02 PT; User-agent * rules include: Disallow: /preview; Disallow: /configuration; Disallow: /*.html?*; Disallow: /*search.html$; Disallow: /content/dcj/dcj-website/; crawl-delay none stated (8 s applied, single-threaded); 6 pages pulled, 0 disallowed (no query strings used)
• www.mcv.vic.gov.au: https://www.mcv.vic.gov.au/robots.txt HTTP 200, re-read 2026-10-26 21:02 PT; User-agent * rules include: Disallow: /core/; Disallow: /profiles/; Disallow: /admin/; Disallow: /node/add/; Disallow: /search/; Disallow: /user/login; crawl-delay none stated (8 s applied, single-threaded); 52 pages pulled, 0 disallowed (no query strings used)

Modified from source

Rows are copied from the source repos' parquet files unchanged except: a source_repo column was added; court_id collisions (if any) were suffixed; the PII sweep was re-run (0 hits pre-write, 0 post-write). For CC BY sources (NZ, AU) this notes that changes were made; attribution is as given in each source section above. For OGL (UK): Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Personal data

No judges or staff names. Court office phones and institutional emails only. Free-webmail addresses and personal mobiles are redacted.

Disclaimer

This is an unofficial copy of public information from official sources; the sources remain authoritative. Not legal advice. Court details change; verify with the court before relying on them. No endorsement by any government, court or ministry is implied.

Takedown / contact

If you are a rights holder or court and want a record corrected or removed, open a discussion on the dataset repository (endomorphosis/ipfs_world_courts_directory). We will act promptly and also correct the country repo.