Judilibre (France)

Judilibre (France) is an integrated data source (a Module) in UserSearch. It is the open case-law service published by the French Cour de cassation, France’s highest court in civil and criminal matters. In UserSearch, Judilibre is one of the Court search type Modules, so you can look up French judicial decisions from the same interface you use for other court records.

Official site: courdecassation.fr/acces-rapide-judilibre

What Judilibre is

Judilibre is the official open-data platform through which the Cour de cassation makes French court decisions publicly available. It is a registry / official source — the data comes from the judiciary itself rather than from a third-party aggregator — which makes it the reference point when your starting question concerns a French court ruling or a party named in open case-law.

What it returns

When you run a Court search against Judilibre, it supplies French judicial decision records such as:

• Court decisions and their full or summarised text
• Case metadata — decision date, chamber, and case/pourvoi number
• Jurisdiction and court that issued the decision
• Parties and references cited in the published ruling

Draft — awaiting confirmation

The exact coverage (which courts and date ranges are included), how current the published decisions are, and the precise fields returned per result are not yet confirmed. Treat the list above as the general shape of what Judilibre returns, not a guaranteed per-result schema. These specifics await confirmation against the product.

Which UserSearch search types use it

Judilibre powers the Court search type. Within Court, it appears as the Court Records (France Judilibre) Module, scoped to French Cour de cassation open case-law. Selecting this Module tells UserSearch to query Judilibre rather than another jurisdiction’s court data source.

How to access Judilibre in UserSearch

1. Select the Court search type.
2. Choose the Court Records (France Judilibre) Module.
3. Enter your target term (for example, a party name or case reference).
4. Confirm the Cost per search shown on screen before you run.
5. Select Search Now.
6. Review the returned decisions. Any matches are marked Found, and the Data Source column shows France Judilibre.

Reliability note

Draft — awaiting confirmation

What is solid: UserSearch integrates Judilibre as a data source, and it appears under the Court search type as the Court Records (France Judilibre) Module. Data-source behaviour details — the range of courts and years covered, update frequency, and whether results reflect the full official Judilibre corpus — have not been confirmed and should not be treated as fact until verified.

Verified against UserSearch v2.0.20