| Information | Source | Planned refresh |
|---|---|---|
| Courts, contacts and facilities | HMCTS court finder | Weekly |
| Authorised firms and offices | SRA data sharing service | Daily |
| Legal-aid office and service listings | Legal Aid Agency directory | Weekly check for a new publication |
| Crime, ASB, police neighbourhoods and teams | Police.uk open data | Monthly |
| Postcode coordinates and country | Postcodes.io | During imports and postcode searches |
| Area boundaries and resident populations | ONS Open Geography Portal and ONS mid-2025 population estimates | Checked against the documented geography during crime imports |
| Maps and nearby police locations | OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence | Monthly station import; live map tiles |
| Firm descriptions and public team names | Each firm’s own website, linked on the profile | Source-checked enrichment, within a fixed budget |
Solicitors Regulation Authority attribution
Court Guide includes data supplied by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Read the SRA data-sharing terms.
ONS and mapping attribution
Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. ONS data is used under the Open Government Licence. Maps and police-location data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence. Loading a map sends a request to OpenStreetMap, including ordinary network information such as your IP address.
Open Government Licence
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Court and Legal Aid Agency information includes Crown copyright material. Police.uk data is provided under this licence. Logos and third-party marks are not represented as Court Guide endorsements.
Postcode data
Postcodes.io incorporates postcode and geographic data from public sources. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. See Postcodes.io source and licence information.
Check dates and corrections
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