import logging import re from datetime import date from datasets import load_dataset from legex.models.base import Case from legex.scrapers.base import BaseScraper DATASET_NAME = "isaacus/high-court-of-australia-cases" log = logging.getLogger(__name__) _RE_CITATION = re.compile(r"\[(\d{4})\]\s*HCA\s*(\d+)") # HCA docket, for example"S94/2025", "P7/2024", "B15/2024". Registry letters seen: S/B/C/P/M/H/D. _RE_DOCKET = re.compile(r"\b([SBCPMHD])(\d+)/(\d{4})\b") HCOURT_URL_TEMPLATE = "https://www.hcourt.gov.au/cases-and-judgments/cases/decided/case-{letter}{num}{year}" class AUScraper(BaseScraper): country = "Australia" def scrape( self, start_date: date | None = None, end_date: date | None = None, ) -> list[Case]: log.info(f"Loading {DATASET_NAME} …") dataset = load_dataset(DATASET_NAME, split="corpus") cases = [self._row_to_case(row) for row in dataset] cases = [c for c in cases if c is not None] if start_date or end_date: cases = [ c for c in cases if (start_date is None or c.decision_date >= start_date) and (end_date is None or c.decision_date <= end_date) ] cases.sort(key=lambda c: c.decision_date or date.min, reverse=True) log.info(f"{len(cases)} cases after filtering") return cases @staticmethod def _row_to_case(row: dict) -> Case | None: raw_date = row.get("date") if not raw_date: return None citation = row.get("citation") or "" m = _RE_CITATION.search(citation) case_id = f"[{m.group(1)}] HCA {m.group(2)}" if m else citation or None decision_date = raw_date.date() if hasattr(raw_date, "date") else date.fromisoformat(str(raw_date)[:10]) # We prefer the authoritative hcourt.gov.au per-case URL, built from the docket # number found in the first 2000 chars of the decision text. This gives around 95% hit rate. # For the remaining ~5% with no docket match we fall back to the dataset URL. text = row.get("text") or "" d = _RE_DOCKET.search(text[:2000]) if d: docket = f"{d.group(1)}{d.group(2)}/{d.group(3)}" link = HCOURT_URL_TEMPLATE.format( letter=d.group(1).lower(), num=d.group(2), year=d.group(3) ) else: docket = "" link = row.get("url") return Case( case_id=case_id, link=link, decision_date=decision_date, jurisdiction="au", language="en", full_text=text or None, metadata={"citation": citation, "docket": docket}, ) @staticmethod def civil_filter(cases: list[Case]) -> list[Case]: # HCA is mixed civil/criminal/constitutional. Exclude the explicit criminal # pattern "v The King" / "v The Queen", everything else we treat as civil. return [ c for c in cases if " v The King" not in (c.metadata or {}).get("citation", "") and " v The Queen" not in (c.metadata or {}).get("citation", "") ]