European Case Law Identifier resolver / forwarde

source The European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) has been developed to facilitate the correct and unequivocal citation of judgments from European and national courts. A set of uniform metadata will help to improve search facilities for case law..

ECLI is a uniform identifier that has the same recognizable format for all Member States and EU courts. It is composed of five, mandatory, elements:

• ECLI: to identify the identifier as being a European Case Law Identifier;
• the country code;
• the code of the court that rendered the judgment;
• the year the judgment was rendered;
• an ordinal number, up to 25 alphanumeric characters, in a format that is decided upon by each Member State. Dots are allowed, but not other punctuation marks.

The elements are separated by a colon. A (non-existent) example of an ECLI could be:

ECLI:NL:HR:2009:384425, which could be decision 384425 of the Supreme Court (‘HR’) of the Netherlands (‘NL’) from the year 2009.

• ECLI:EU:C:1997:58

• ECLI:BE:CASS:1999:ARR.19990427.9

• ECLI:NL:HR:2009:384425

• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Case_Law_Identifier
• https://websites.ucy.ac.cy/cyecli/el/index.html
• https://justice.public.lu/fr/jurisprudence/juridictions-administratives.html?b=60