Courtsdesk allows you to monitor for new (or future) proceedings, for changes to a callover or for new callovers, and most importantly, for an individual case.

There are three options for setting up alerts for Circuit Court matters:

You can use this function to set up a variety of alerts. Examples of how this can be useful include setting up alerts for:

Rather than spend long hours each week trying to find relevant cases in the Courts Service's legal diary, here are some ways you can now set up alerts for only diaries which are relevant to you.

Using the 'Track this search' function, you can set up alerts for any new Circuit Court diaries which mention a specific name, such as your law firm or a client.

Instructions to set up a Tracked Search:

You will receive an on-screen notification in green that the tracked search has been set up. Here's an example:

Any tracked searches you set up can be checked or deleted in your "Tracking" section in the toolbar on the left - the binoculars icon.

Receive alerts for any diaries with cases involving your firm, e.g. Eversheds:

+Eversheds

Receive alerts for cases involving your firm in a given court:

+Eversheds, address:Sligo

+A B Wolfe, address:Galway

Receive alerts for cases involving your client:

+Permanent TSB

Important note on 'exact' and 'fuzzy' match in the Circuit Court

In the Circuit Court, because diaries contain so many names, you may want to try an exact match search in order to avoid false positives in your results or alerts.

By default, Courtsdesk's search is designed to assist with misspellings. As a result, it checks for close matches - sometimes referred to as 'extended' or 'fuzzy' matching search. So "PTSB" might match on "PTS"

Here is a quick example of how to enter both types of search in the search bar:

Some examples of fuzzy vs exact search, using the plus symbol shortcut.

Note - insert a comma to separate search terms.

In the examples above the exact match will be applied to the entire string of words, e.g. "AIB Mortgage Bank" or "John Doe".

Searches can be combined in this way, e.g. to search "+Eversheds" and "John Doe" you enter: +Eversheds, John Doe .

Using the exact match instructions described above, you can set up alerts for new diaries containing updates to a specific case number.

Important note: Irish Circuit Court case numbers are not unique - the Courts Service allows different circuits to use the same number for different cases. In order to find or track only the case you are interested in, it is necessary to add a second search term.

Example:

Case Ref: 2019/00011

Plaintiff: Cabot Asset Purchases (Ireland) Limited

Defendant: John Cawley

P Solicitor: Belgard & Company

D Solicitor: Seamus Monaghan & Co

In order to track this case for any new mentions here are some options:

Search for both case number and one of the law firms on record

+2019/00011, Belgard

Search for both case number and one party

+2019/00011, Cabot

Once the results are narrowed down to show only the diaries you are interested in click the 'Track this search' button in pink in the upper right hand corner of the results page.

Clicking the 'Track' button on an Irish Circuit Court Diary page will trigger alert - by email and in your stored notifications section of the site - when any update is detected on Courtsdesk.

For Circuit Court diaries you will be notified for updates or changes to that diary including:

The track button is available on Circuit Court diaries at the top left of the page.

If you have any questions about this article please contact us on Customer Support and we will be glad to help.