Court decision anonymisation
Rulings and judgments ready for publication, with personal data replaced consistently and readability preserved. Built with decisions from some of Portugal’s leading courts.
Manuel Ferreira Lopes, residing at 14 Rua do Carmo, Viseu, brought an action against Construções Beira Alta, Lda., tax number 501 234 567, seeking payment of …
AA, residing at Street 1, Town 1, brought an action against Company 1, Ltd., tax number …, seeking payment of …
Example with fictitious data. Point at an item to see every occurrence.
Publishing case law without exposing the parties.
A single decision can run to dozens of pages and hundreds of references to people, addresses, companies and ID numbers — often spelt in different ways.
Anonymising it by hand is slow, tiring and error-prone: one missed occurrence is enough to identify someone. And the same person must always carry the same label, from the summary to the ruling.
What gets anonymised in a decision
- Parties and other participants
- Witnesses and experts
- Addresses and places
- Companies, insurers and banks
- Tax, ID and vehicle numbers
- IBAN and contact details
- Dates of birth
- Signatures and stamps in scanned PDFs
Each organisation chooses which categories to anonymise — including judges and lawyers — and the result stays consistent across the whole document.
From signed decision to publication.
- 01
Upload
A single decision or a whole batch, in Word or PDF — scanned documents included.
- 02
Review
Suggested items are highlighted; accept, correct or add terms.
- 03
Publish
Export in the original format, keeping the decision’s layout and pagination.
“I can’t imagine going back to anonymising court decisions without it.”
- pages anonymised
- 700k+
- pages per hour
- 350+
- time saved on the task
- 50%+
- users
- 140+
Questions from courts
Are the names of judges and lawyers anonymised?
That is each organisation’s choice: the categories to anonymise can be configured to match its publication rules.
Does it work with scanned decisions?
Yes. Text is recognised automatically (OCR), including signatures and stamps.
Does the decision keep its original formatting?
Yes. It is exported in the original format, ready to publish in your case-law database.
Try it with your court’s decisions.
We show you the results in your real context, in a no-obligation demo.