Terms

1. Who we are

1.1 CaseLawDigest is published by Playblast Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales under number 16116921, with its registered office at 71-75 Shelton Street, London, England, WC2H 9JQ. In these terms, “we”, “us” and “our” mean Playblast Ltd.

1.2 You can reach us at support@caselawdigest.co.uk.

1.3 By using this website you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.

2. What this service is

2.1 We publish summaries of judgments handed down by the courts and tribunals of England and Wales, and of the UK-wide courts and tribunals whose decisions appear on Find Case Law. Each summary describes a single judgment and links to its official text.

2.2 Summaries are written with the assistance of artificial intelligence from the text of the judgment, and are checked by a separate automated pass and, where that pass raises anything, by a person. How this works is set out in our editorial policy.

2.3 We do not publish everything a court decides. We publish what appears on Find Case Law, which is not a complete record of the decisions of the courts of England and Wales. The absence of a case from this site proves nothing about that case.

2.4 Every summary we publish, on this site and in every issue we send, carries this notice, which we call the Summary Notice:

Summaries are produced by artificial intelligence and may contain inaccuracies. Always consult the original decision for any legal use.

2.5 The Summary Notice is a term of this agreement and not merely a warning. Clause 3 sets out what follows from it.

3. What we undertake, and what we do not

This clause defines what you are buying. Please read it.

3.1 What we undertake. We undertake to operate the publishing process described in our editorial policy with reasonable care and skill, and to publish, for each judgment we cover, a description of that judgment together with a link to its official text on Find Case Law.

3.2 What we do not undertake. We do not undertake that any summary is accurate, complete, current or fit for any purpose of yours. The accuracy of a summary is not an obligation we assume, and the service is not offered on that basis. It is offered on the basis stated in the Summary Notice: the summary is a description produced by artificial intelligence, the judgment is the source, and the judgment is what you consult before you use anything.

3.3 The authoritative text is always available to you. Every judgment we summarise is published in full by The National Archives on Find Case Law, free of charge, and every summary links to it. You are therefore never in a position where our description is your only access to what the court decided. That is the foundation on which this service is priced and on which clauses 3, 21 and 22 are agreed.

3.4 No advice and no assumption of responsibility. Nothing on this site is legal advice. Using this site creates no solicitor-client relationship, no retainer, and no adviser’s duty in respect of any matter you are handling. We are a publisher of descriptions of public documents. We do not assume responsibility to you, or to anyone you act for, for any decision taken on the basis of a summary rather than on the basis of the judgment it describes.

3.5 A summary is not an authority. It must not be cited to a court, tribunal, client or counterparty as a statement of what a judgment holds. If a proposition matters, it must be taken from the judgment.

3.6 Your acknowledgement. You are a professional user of legal information. By using this site or subscribing, you acknowledge that:

(a) you have read the Summary Notice and understand what a summary is and how it is produced;
(b) you will not act or advise on the content of a summary without reading the judgment it links to;
(c) you do not rely on any summary as a substitute for the judgment, and you are not relying on any representation by us as to the accuracy of any summary; and
(d) the professional judgment applied to any matter you are handling is yours.

4. Source, licence and attribution

4.1 Judgments are sourced from Find Case Law, published by The National Archives. Playblast Ltd holds a transactional licence granted directly by The National Archives, for a term of five years from 18 September 2026, covering the re-use of Court Judgments and Tribunal Decisions for this service. Crown copyright material reproduced by permission of The National Archives. The contents of the judgment can be used under the Open Justice Licence.

4.2 CaseLawDigest is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to The National Archives, His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service, or the judiciary of England and Wales. Nothing on this site should be read as suggesting otherwise.

4.3 Our summaries, the way we classify judgments into practice areas, our keyword vocabulary, the design of this site and our software are our intellectual property. The judgments themselves are not, and we claim nothing over them.

4.4 Find Case Law is not a complete record of the case law of England and Wales: the material we re-use only partially represents the activities of the courts and tribunals, and the absence of a case from this site is not evidence about that case. See our editorial policy for what the collection does and does not contain.

5. What anyone may do here

5.1 You may read the freely available parts of this site, link to any page, and share those links.

5.2 You may quote a short extract from a freely available summary, with attribution to CaseLawDigest and a link to the page it came from. If you do, you must reproduce the Summary Notice alongside it.

6. What nobody may do here

6.1 You may not:

(a) access this site by automated means, including crawling, scraping, or systematic downloading, other than by a general-purpose search engine crawler that respects our robots file;
(b) copy, extract or reconstruct any substantial part of our summaries, our classification of judgments, or our keyword vocabulary, whether at once or over time;
(c) use anything published on this site to train, fine-tune, evaluate or ground a machine learning model, or to build a dataset for that purpose;
(d) republish our summaries, in whole or in substantial part, on any website, service or publication;
(e) attempt to reach material that is reserved for subscribers, whether by circumventing sign-in, sharing credentials, or any other means;
(f) attempt to identify any person whose name a court has withheld, or use anything on this site to do so;
(g) interfere with the operation or security of the site, or attempt to.

6.2 Clause 6.1 is not incidental. Our permission to carry out computational analysis of Find Case Law records is personal to us and comes with obligations about how the results are made available. Bulk extraction from this site is a breach of those obligations as well as of these terms.

6.3 If you are a security researcher and you find a vulnerability, please tell us at support@caselawdigest.co.uk before doing anything else. We will not pursue anyone who reports a genuine issue to us privately and gives us a reasonable chance to fix it.

7. Errors

7.1 If you find an error in a summary, please tell us using the report form on the case page. We read every report.

7.2 Where we correct a summary materially, we say so on the case page and in the corrections section of the next weekly issue for that practice area.

8. Availability

8.1 We aim to keep the site available but do not guarantee that it will be. We may suspend, withdraw or restrict all or part of it without notice, including for maintenance.

8.2 We are not responsible for the content of any external site we link to, including Find Case Law.

9. Changes to these terms

9.1 We may change these terms. The version on this page, with the effective date at the top, is the one that applies. For subscribers, clause 19 sets out how changes are notified.

10. Who may subscribe

10.1 Subscriptions are sold to businesses only: solicitors, barristers, chambers, firms, in-house legal teams, academic institutions and others acquiring the service for the purposes of their trade, business, craft or profession.

10.2 By subscribing you confirm you are acting for such purposes and not as a consumer. The consumer protection provisions of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 do not apply to this contract. Clause 17 gives a refund right of our own instead.

10.3 If you subscribe on behalf of a firm or organisation, you confirm you are authorised to bind it, and “you” in Part B means that firm or organisation.

10.4 You must be at least 18 years old.

11. What a subscription includes

11.1 A subscription covers a stated number of practice areas and a stated number of named individuals, as shown on our pricing page and confirmed at checkout.

11.2 For each practice area you subscribe to, a subscription includes:

(a) one PDF issue per week, covering the judgments published in that area during the week;
(b) access on this site to the complete text of every summary in that area, including the full archive; and
(c) an account for each named individual.

11.3 Issues are produced weekly. Courts do not sit uniformly through the year, so the size of an issue varies and some weeks are thin. That is the shape of the material, not a failure of the service.

11.4 We do not warrant completeness or timeliness of coverage. We publish what appears on Find Case Law and we depend entirely on that source. We give no service level for how quickly a judgment appears here after it appears there, and no guarantee that every judgment published in your area will be covered.

12. Named individuals

12.1 Each place on a subscription is for one named individual, identified by their work email address. Places are personal and may not be shared or used concurrently by more than one person.

12.2 You may reassign a place when the individual holding it leaves your organisation or changes role. You may not rotate places between people to give more people access than you have paid for.

12.3 The individuals you name are read-only users. They receive the issues and can read the summaries. They cannot change the subscription, the practice areas covered, or who is on it.

12.4 You are responsible for what the individuals you name do with the service, as if it were your own act.

12.5 By naming someone, you confirm that you are entitled to give us their work email address for this purpose. Our privacy notice explains what then happens.

12.6 If you want to move to a plan covering fewer people, you must first reduce the number of named individuals to fit the new plan. Deciding who keeps a place is your decision, not ours.

13. What you may do with a summary

13.1 Within your organisation, the individuals named on your subscription may read, print, save and discuss any summary you have access to.

13.2 You may quote from a summary, or reproduce a summary in full, in advice, a note or a memorandum you prepare for a client of yours, provided that:

(a) it is attributed to CaseLawDigest;
(b) it is incidental to advice or work of your own, and not the substance of what you are supplying; and
(c) you do not present it as a legal authority, and you have read the judgment it describes.

13.3 You may forward a single summary to a client, a counterpart or a colleague in the ordinary course of a matter. This is not a licence to distribute summaries generally.

13.4 Wherever a summary goes, the Summary Notice and the link to the judgment go with it. If you quote a summary under clause 13.2 or forward one under clause 13.3, you must keep both intact and visible. This is not housekeeping: it is the condition on which you are permitted to pass a summary on at all, and it is what ensures that whoever receives it knows what it is and can reach the judgment themselves.

13.5 If you supply a summary to a client or anyone else in breach of clause 13.4, you are responsible as between us for any claim by that person arising out of their use of it, and you will indemnify us against any such claim.

14. What you may not do with a subscription

14.1 You may not:

(a) give access to the site, or to your account, to anyone who is not a named individual on your subscription;
(b) circulate a weekly issue outside your organisation, or inside it to people who are not named on the subscription;
(c) post a summary or an issue on an intranet, extranet, portal, knowledge base or mailing list that reaches people beyond your named individuals;
(d) resell, sublicense, syndicate or incorporate our summaries into a product, publication or service of your own;
(e) do anything prohibited by clause 6, which continues to apply to subscribers;
(f) remove, obscure or alter any attribution, licensing notice or personalisation carried by a summary or an issue.

14.2 Each weekly issue is personalised to the individual who downloads it and carries their name. This is a condition of the subscription, not a technical curiosity: it is what clause 14.1(f) protects.

14.3 If we have reason to think a subscription is being used outside these terms, we will contact you before doing anything else. Clause 20 sets out what happens if the position is not put right.

15. Withdrawn judgments

15.1 The National Archives may revise, anonymise or withdraw a judgment after publication. Where that happens, we act on it: the summary is rewritten, or withdrawn from the site, from search, from future issues and from issues already produced.

15.2 If we tell you that a summary has been withdrawn, you must stop using it and must not circulate it further. We do not ask you to search your archives, but you may not continue to rely on or distribute a summary we have told you is withdrawn.

15.3 Clause 15.2 exists because our permission to summarise these judgments is conditional on our acting on takedown requests. It is a short clause carrying real weight.

16. Price, VAT and payment

16.1 Prices are those shown on our pricing page at the time you subscribe, in pounds sterling.

16.2 Prices are exclusive of VAT. Playblast Ltd is not currently registered for VAT and no VAT is charged. If we become registered, VAT will be added at the prevailing rate from the date of registration, and we will tell you before it applies to you.

16.3 Payment is taken in advance, by card, through our payment processor. We do not receive or store your card number.

16.4 Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period, monthly or annually as you chose, until cancelled. Renewal is charged at the price then applying to your plan, subject to clause 19.

16.5 If a payment fails, we will retry it and tell you. If it is still not collected after the retry window, access is suspended and, if it remains unpaid, the subscription ends.

17. Cancellation and refunds

17.1 You may cancel at any time from your account or by writing to us. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the billing period you have paid for. You keep full access until then.

17.2 First subscription refund. If you cancel within 14 days of your first payment to us, we will refund that payment in full, whatever use you have made of the service. This applies once per customer, to a first subscription only.

17.3 Outside clause 17.2, payments are non-refundable and we do not pro-rate for unused time, including on annual plans. Annual plans are priced below twelve monthly payments in exchange for the commitment.

17.4 Clause 17.3 does not apply where we terminate under clause 20.4, or where a refund is required by law.

17.5 Weekly issues already delivered to you are yours to keep. Nothing in this clause requires you to delete them when your subscription ends, subject to clause 15.

18. When a subscription ends

18.1 On the day a subscription ends, access to this site ends: the archive, search and the full text of summaries in your practice areas.

18.2 The issues you have already received remain yours, and you may continue to use them within your organisation on the terms of clause 13.

18.3 We keep your account for 12 months in case you return, then delete it, as set out in our privacy notice.

19. Changes to the service and to prices

19.1 We may change how the service works. We will not materially reduce what a paid subscription includes during a period you have paid for without telling you first and offering a pro-rated refund of the unused part if you do not accept it.

19.2 We may change prices. We will give at least 30 days’ notice by email. The new price applies from your next renewal, and you may cancel before it takes effect.

19.3 We may change these terms. We will give at least 30 days’ notice by email of any material change. If you do not accept it, you may cancel before it takes effect and we will refund the unused part of your current period.

19.4 We may discontinue the service entirely, on 60 days’ notice, refunding the unused part of anything you have paid.

20. Suspension and termination

20.1 We may suspend or terminate a subscription immediately if you materially breach these terms, in particular clauses 6, 12 or 14, or if payment is not made.

20.2 Where the breach can be put right, we will tell you what the problem is and give you 14 days to fix it before terminating, unless the breach is deliberate or is causing ongoing harm.

20.3 On termination for breach, no refund is due for the unused part of the period.

20.4 If we terminate for any reason other than your breach, we will refund the unused part of what you have paid.

21. Warranties and what we do not promise

21.1 We will operate the publishing process described in the editorial policy with reasonable care and skill. That is the standard against which our performance is to be judged.

21.2 Clause 21.1 is an obligation about how we work, not a warranty about the content of any summary. As clause 3.2 provides, the accuracy of a summary is not an obligation we assume. We give no warranty, express or implied, that any summary is accurate, complete, current or fit for any purpose, and no such warranty is to be implied from our editorial policy, from the checks we describe there, or from anything on this site.

21.3 We do not warrant that coverage is complete, that any particular judgment will be covered, or that the service will be uninterrupted.

21.4 Beyond clause 21.1, and to the extent the law allows, the service is provided as it is and as available, and all other warranties, conditions and terms implied by statute or common law, including the term as to reasonable care and skill implied by section 13 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 so far as it would impose a wider obligation than clause 21.1, are excluded.

22. Liability

22.1 Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded.

22.2 Reliance on a summary rather than on the judgment. Clause 3 defines what we undertake. Where a loss arises because you, or anyone you act for, acted on the content of a summary without reading the judgment it links to, no obligation of ours has been breached and we have no liability for it, whether in contract, in tort including negligence or negligent misstatement, under the Misrepresentation Act 1967, or otherwise. This reflects the basis on which the service is offered, stated in the Summary Notice on every summary we publish.

22.3 Subject to clause 22.1, we are not liable for:

(a) loss of profit, revenue, business, contracts, anticipated savings or goodwill;
(b) liability to any client of yours, or any cost of professional indemnity, remediation or regulatory response;
(c) loss of or damage to data;
(d) wasted management time; or
(e) any indirect or consequential loss,
whether or not we were told such loss was possible.

22.4 Subject to clause 22.1, our total liability to you for all claims arising out of or in connection with the service, whether in contract, tort including negligence, breach of statutory duty or otherwise, is limited in aggregate to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

22.5 Why these terms are reasonable. You acknowledge that clauses 3, 21 and 22 are a fair allocation of risk, and that you have taken them into account in deciding to subscribe, because:

(a) the full text of every judgment we summarise is published free of charge by The National Archives and is one click from every summary, so our description is never your only route to the source;
(b) every summary carries the Summary Notice, which states plainly what a summary is and what to do before using it;
(c) you are a professional user of legal information, able to read a judgment and required by your own professional obligations to do so before advising on it;
(d) the price of the service reflects this allocation of risk, and a service that warranted the accuracy of AI-assisted summaries of every judgment in a practice area could not be offered at anything like it; and
(e) you are better placed than we are to know what any given matter is worth, to control how a summary is used within your organisation, and to insure that risk.

22.6 Each part of clauses 21 and 22 operates separately. If any part is held unenforceable, the remaining parts continue to apply.

23. Data protection

23.1 Each of us complies with applicable data protection law. Our privacy notice explains what we do with personal data.

23.2 We are a controller of the personal data we hold about you and the individuals you name. We do not process personal data on your behalf, and we do not receive any personal data belonging to your clients or your matters. There is accordingly no data processing agreement between us.

24. Confidentiality

24.1 We will not disclose that you are a subscriber, or which practice areas you follow, to anyone outside Playblast Ltd, except where the law requires it. We will not use your name as a reference or in marketing without asking you first.

25. Events outside our control

25.1 We are not liable for failure or delay caused by anything outside our reasonable control, including the unavailability of Find Case Law, the loss or variation of our permission to use it, failures of hosting, payment or email providers, cyber attack, or action by a public authority.

25.2 If such an event prevents us providing the service for more than 30 consecutive days, either of us may terminate and we will refund the unused part of anything you have paid.

26. General

26.1 These terms, together with our privacy notice and the plan details confirmed at checkout, are the whole agreement between us about the service, and replace anything said or written before.

26.2 You may not assign or transfer this agreement without our written consent, which we will not unreasonably withhold, including on a merger or reorganisation of your firm. We may assign it to a successor to the business.

26.3 If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.

26.4 Delay in enforcing a right is not a waiver of it.

26.5 Nobody other than you and us has any right to enforce these terms under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.

26.6 Notices to you are given by email to the address on your account. Notices to us go to support@caselawdigest.co.uk.

27. Law and disputes

27.1 These terms and any dispute arising out of them are governed by the law of England and Wales.

27.2 Before starting proceedings, please write to us at support@caselawdigest.co.uk and give us a fair chance to resolve the matter. Most things can be settled that way.

27.3 The courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction.