Lookup
Lookup finds public records that are not in your File Library yet. You search a court matter by party, advocate or case number, or a company by name or registry identifier, open the record, and import its documents into your files. From there the rest of Judicio can use them.
The hero on the Lookup home reads What would you like to find today? with the line Search public records and pull the documents straight into your files. Under it a single row states the jurisdiction Lookup is searching.
- Input: a search, not a document. Lookup has no file band and nothing to upload.
- Modes: three tabs in the panel strip: Court cases, Companies and Saved searches.
- Output: a record with a field grid and a document list, plus an import into your File Library.
- Handoffs: a matter goes to Research or Case Strategy without importing anything. Imported files go to Document Review, Review Matrix or Translation.
- Credits: searching is free. Importing documents you already have access to is free. Retrieving a company's filing documents from the register costs credits.
- Where: the Lookup item in the left sidebar, which appears only when the server says Lookup is available to you.
What Lookup is, and what it is not
Lookup is a search over public registers. It returns what the register holds and nothing more. It does not read your documents, it does not answer a question, and it does not produce an analysis.
It is not one of the AI workspaces. There is no query composer, no tone or length setting, no Deep Mode and no run to wait on. A search returns a list; opening a result returns a record.
It is the wrong tool when the answer you want is an opinion, a chronology, a clause review or a comparison. Those are Legal Research, Timeline, Document Review and Review Matrix. Lookup's job is to get the source document into your files so those tools can work on it.
The three modes
The panel on the Lookup home is a tab strip. Each tab carries a label and a one-line caption.
| Mode | Caption on the tab | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Court cases | Find a matter across the Supreme Court, High Courts, district courts and tribunals. Import its orders straight into your files. | Searches court matters. Nine fields, one search bar, the rest behind More filters. |
| Companies | Look up a company's registered details, directors and charges, and import its filings. | Searches the companies register. Three fields. This is the only mode where a document can sit behind a paid retrieval. |
| Saved searches | Re-run a search you kept, or N saved · Re-run a search you kept once you have some | Runs no search of its own. It selects one you kept earlier and runs that, against current records. |
Two of the three are search forms. Saved searches is a selector, which is why the caption counts what is in it rather than describing a form.
Switching between Court cases and Companies clears the form, the results and any open record, because a court code means nothing to a company search. Switching to Saved searches and back leaves your half-typed search exactly where it was.
How a search works
- Pick a mode. Court cases or Companies.
- Type into the search bar. One field is the bar itself: the party or advocate name on Court cases, the company name or identifier on Companies.
- Narrow it. Court cases carries a quiet State chip inside the bar. Everything else sits behind More filters, whose label carries a count of what it is hiding.
- Press Search. Results appear below the panel, twenty to a page, with a line above them saying how complete the list is.
- Open a result. The record replaces the home view. It has its own title and its own Close.
- Act on it. Send the matter to Research or Case Strategy, or select documents and import them into your File Library.
Reading a record
A record has four parts, in this order.
| Part | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Header | The record title, the record id beneath it, and a Close button on the right. |
| Field grid | The register's own fields. A court matter shows CNR, case number, court, case type, status, filing date, next hearing, disposal date and stage. A company shows status, incorporation date, authorised capital, paid-up capital, registered address, registrar, and counts of directors and registered charges. Empty fields are not shown. |
| Use this matter in | Research this matter and Build a case strategy. Available the moment the record opens, before anything is imported. |
| Documents | Every document the register offers, each badged so you can tell what costs nothing. Below the list, a Save to folder picker and the import button. |
Company records carry one more part above the document list: the retrieval panel described in Unlocking records.
Credits
| Action | Cost | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Search court records | 0.1 credits per search | Ten searches = 1 credit. |
| Open a case record | 0.25 credits | Includes the full text of every order in the matter, so importing those costs nothing further. |
| Refresh a case you already opened | 0.05 credits | - |
| Download an order as its originally filed PDF | 0.6 credits | Only when you want the filed artifact rather than its text. |
| Look up a company, its profile, or its filing list | 1 credit per read | - |
| Retrieve a company's filing documents | 60 credits | Charged once. Your organisation keeps the documents for a year. |
| Download a filing after the unlock | 0.3 credits | Documents included in the unlock bundle are free. |
| Re-read a record your organisation has already paid for | Free | Court and tribunal lists, and checking an unlock's progress, are free too. |
What is free and what is not
Searching costs nothing, however many pages you page through. Opening a record costs nothing. Importing a document badged Included costs nothing, because its text already arrived with the record.
The one priced action in Lookup is retrieving a company's filing documents from the register. It is confirmed in a dialog that names the figure before anything is charged, and the charge is once per company. See Unlocking records and Credits Explained.
When Lookup is available to you
Lookup is hidden from the sidebar unless the server's catalogue returns at least one searchable record type for your account. That is a single check, decided in one place, and it covers jurisdiction, plan, workspace and account state together.
If you reach /dashboard/lookup while that check is failing, the page states which gate stopped it. There are seven such screens, and only one of them offers a retry. They are listed in full in the FAQ.
Lookup covers India. Court dockets are not available in other jurisdictions from this screen, and the gate screen says so by name when your active jurisdiction is something else.
What is next
- Getting started - the happy path, screen by screen.
- Court cases - every field on the court form, the result list, and the record panel.
- Companies - the company form and what a company record shows.
- Saved searches - keeping a search, re-running it, and what the staleness badges mean.
- Unlocking records - the retrieval, its cost, its wait, and who else can use the result.
- FAQ - answers, the availability gates, and troubleshooting.