Justice and legal systems news API

What this covers

Court proceedings, rulings, prosecutions and the institutions around them. Coverage clusters at filing and at judgment with long quiet periods between, so a case can appear dormant for months while proceeding normally. Regulatory enforcement is the sub-thread with the most commercial value and the least general coverage, appearing first in professional and sector trade press before any national outlet picks it up. Sentencing and appeal stages attract far less coverage than charging and verdict, so a case tracked only through general press appears to end at the point it is still being contested.

Querying it

Widen the time window substantially compared with other topics, and pair with the legal-litigation signal to weight toward proceedings rather than general crime reporting. Named-party queries work better than topic queries for tracking a specific case.

GET /stories?topic=WB_840_JUSTICE&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20

What catches people out

Coverage is heavily selective toward prominent parties and dramatic outcomes. Most proceedings are never reported, so a news-derived view of legal activity is a view of newsworthy legal activity, which is a much smaller and quite different set.

Who publishes on it

Legal trade press covering proceedings in detail, national outlets covering prominent cases, and regional papers covering local courts. Most proceedings are never reported at all.

What it is best for

Best for tracking named parties through prominent proceedings and for regulatory enforcement patterns. Weakest as a measure of legal activity, since coverage selects hard for prominence and dramatic outcome over volume of actual cases.

Monitoring it over time

Cases move slowly and are covered at two points, so a case can look dormant for months while proceeding normally and a monitoring gap means nothing. Track named parties rather than the topic when following something specific, and expect the specialist legal press to report procedural steps that never reach general coverage at all.

Signals that pair with it

Topic filtering answers what an article is about. Signals answer how strongly it reads that way and in what register, so combining them is usually sharper than either alone.

• signal_legal_litigation
• signal_governance_risk
• signal_public_sector

GET /search?topic=WB_840_JUSTICE&signal=signal_legal_litigation&signal_min=0.25

How signals work →

Recent coverage

From the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.

Who covers it

baomoi.com · index.hr · news.yam.md · indiatimes.com · dunya.com · naslovi.net · tribunnews.com · livelaw.in · ohmynews.com · haberler.com · zazoom.it · birgun.net

Counts are provisional pending a snapshot against the API.