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explain that BAILII " not consider that taking the extra step of making the judgments searchable, using Google or other search engines, is necessary in order to achieve the primary objective of making judgments of the courts freely available to the public." He also stated that the restriction on redistribution was to protect its "value-added content", such as "converting it into a suitable format and making efforts to prevent the publication of material that must not be published".
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Much of the material available on BAILII is duplicated elsewhere, for example legislation and rulings of some courts (such as the
Supreme Court). BAILII has an agreement with the Ministry of Justice indemnifying it from some legal prosecutions. BAILII has historically received payment as part of this
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from 1572 to 1615, then created their own series of reports. These would not necessarily be an accurate record of what was said. What was recorded might have been selective, or inaccurate. As the reporting industry developed, more people became involved and specialised in particular areas of law. The
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defended criticisms, stating that the restrictions on indexing were to ensure that records could be retroactively edited or removed for clerical or legal reasons, such as errors, information that was not authorized to be published, or records that have not been properly anonymized. Brooke went on to
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editorial, it was noted that BAILII had "done a wonderful job of making case law freely accessible to lawyers", including "historic and
European data that is otherwise very difficult to find." However, it was also noted that as a small charity the service "struggles to afford to host its 297,000
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judgments, and does not allow search engines to index them. In some instances it is not even clear whether the crown or the judge concerned holds the
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to the words, and reproducing them on any other site is forbidden." The site's own copyright policy notes that use of its
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