Getting started with Lookup
This walkthrough follows one path end to end: find a court matter by party name, narrow it to a court, open the record, and import its orders into your File Library. It then switches to the companies register and shows where a finished retrieval lives afterwards.
Lookup appears in the left sidebar only when the server says it is available to your account. If it is not there, or the page states a reason instead of a search bar, the seven gate screens are listed in the FAQ.
Open Lookup
Click Lookup in the left sidebar. It sits between Translation and File Library.
The home opens on Court cases, never on the saved list. You land on What would you like to find today? with the line Search public records and pull the documents straight into your files. A single row beneath the hero names the jurisdiction being searched.
The panel below it is a tab strip with three tabs: Court cases, Companies and Saved searches. There is nothing to upload and no documents to pick. Lookup starts from a search.
The search bar on Court cases is Party or advocate name, prompted with e.g. Reliance Industries, or an advocate's name. Under the bar, a line states what the box actually matches: Searches petitioners, respondents and advocates.
Type a party name and press Search. While it runs the button reads Searching….
Narrow the search
Two controls narrow a court search, and they sit in different places.
The State chip rides quietly inside the search bar, on the right of the text box. It reads Anywhere until you pick something. State is there to drive the Court list rather than to filter on its own, so choosing a state alone does not restrict what you get back.
Everything else is behind More filters (7). The number in the label is the count of fields the disclosure is hiding, so you can tell at a glance whether there is anything under it. Open it to reach CNR number, Court, Case number, Year, Status, Filed after and Filed before.
Court stays disabled and reads Choose a state first until a state is set. Once it loads, leaving it blank searches everywhere: a court filter can only reduce what you find.
If you have a CNR, put it in CNR number and leave the rest alone. It identifies the matter exactly and no other field is needed.
Once any field has a value, a Clear filters button appears beneath the panel and empties the whole form in one press.
Read the results
Results appear under the panel, twenty to a page.
Read the line above the list before you read the list. It is the only thing that tells you whether you are looking at everything.
- A plain count, 142 results, means the register gave a total.
- Showing 20 matches. There may be more. Refine the search or page through. means there is a next page.
- Showing the top 20 matches. Narrow the search to see different results. means the list is capped. Paging further will not reveal more, so change the search instead.
Each row carries the case title, its registration or filing number, the court, the filing date and a status badge. Disposed is shown in a neutral badge, anything else in an informational one.
A search that matches nothing shows No matching records found. with the register's own explanation beneath it. Filter by court and find nothing and it reads No matters found in the selected court. Try searching without a court filter. Read that line rather than the blank list: an empty result inside one court is not the same claim as a party having no matters at all.
Where there is more than one page, a pager sits under the list showing Page 1 of 8, with Previous and Next. When the register gives no total it shows just the page number.
Click a row to open it.
Open the record and import its documents
The record takes over the page. The hero and the tab strip go away, because you are reading a result rather than starting one. The title is the matter, the record id sits under it, and Close on the right returns you to the home with your search intact.
Below the field grid is a row that reads Use this matter in: with two buttons, Research this matter and Build a case strategy. Neither needs a file. They carry the matter across as a description, land you in that feature with its composer filled in, and stop. You press that feature's own start button, and you see its own cost confirmation before anything runs.
The Documents card lists what the register offers. Each row is badged:
- Included means the text already arrived with the record. Importing it costs nothing further.
- Needs access means the document sits behind a retrieval. Its checkbox is disabled.
- Not yet published means the register lists the document but has nothing to hand over yet. Also disabled.
Select all (12) ticks every Included document in one press, and the number tells you how many that is.
Set Save to if you want a particular folder. It is enabled once a project is selected in the top bar. Then press the import button, which carries the count of what you ticked: Import 12. A toast confirms the count, and an Import card appears with a running 3 of 12 done tally.
When the import finishes, a row of buttons appears under Continue with these documents: with Review these documents, Build a review matrix and Translate these documents. Each stages the imported files in that feature and takes you there.
Switch to Companies
Click the Companies tab. The form changes to three fields, because a company is found differently from a matter.
The search bar is Company name or identifier, and it is required. Paste a registry identifier to go straight to that company, or type a name to see ranked matches. The prompt in the box is e.g. Infosys Limited, or a CIN / LLPIN / DIN. Press Search with it empty and the panel answers Enter Company name or identifier to search. rather than running anything.
There is no chip in the bar on this tab. More filters (2) holds State and City, both free text, both optional, useful when several companies share a name.
Switching tabs clears the court form. That is deliberate: carrying a court code into a company search would narrow it silently.
A company record shows the registered profile, the directors and charges counts, and a list of filings. All of that answers immediately. Only the filing PDFs sit behind a paid retrieval, described in Unlocking records.
Find it again on Recent activity
Recent activity sits at the bottom of the Lookup home and holds both imports and retrievals, newest first, grouped into Today, Yesterday and Earlier.
An import reads as 12 documents from Acme Ltd v State. A retrieval reads as Filing documents · Infosys Limited · available until 4 Sep 2027, and switches to expired once that date passes.
Clicking a row reopens that record. So a retrieval you started twenty minutes ago is one click away, and you do not have to remember the search that found it.
You do not need to stay on the page while anything runs. Both an import and a registry retrieval live on the server, and you are notified when a retrieval is ready.
Next steps
- Court cases - all nine fields, the result list and the record panel in full.
- Companies - the company form and what a company record shows.
- Saved searches - keep this search and re-run it later.
- Unlocking records - what a retrieval costs and how long it takes.