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Looking up a case without an account

Type the CNR from your order sheet on the search page and see the court’s own record — no sign-in.

Open this page Reviewed 24 September 2026

Step by step

  1. Find the CNR Sixteen characters — four letters for the court, then twelve digits. It is on the order sheet, on the filing receipt and on the case-status printout. Spaces and dashes do not matter.
  2. Type it on the search page Find an advocate carries a box for it at the top. There is also a page of its own at /case if you want to bookmark it.
  3. Answer the code A five-character code appears — ours, not the court’s. Each lookup is a paid call to the court data service, so it keeps the box from being emptied by a script.
  4. Read the record Parties, court, bench, stage, and the next date if one is listed. It is relayed from the court’s published record, not from anything we hold.
  5. Keep it, if it is yours A free account follows the case: the next date goes into your calendar and you are told when it moves, without typing the number again.

Worth knowing

  • Nothing is saved when you look up a case this way — no account is created and nothing is tracked. It is a question answered, not a record made.
  • The data is the court’s. Where the court’s own record is wrong or behind, this will be too. Check the certified copy before you rely on it.
  • Court records are public, so you can look up any case. What you cannot do this way is make it appear in somebody else’s portal.
  • LegalNexus is not affiliated with eCourts Services, the eCommittee or any court.

Questions

It says the free lookups for today have been used.
There is a daily limit on lookups made without an account, because each one is paid for. It resets at midnight. An account has its own allowance, which is larger.
I only have a case number and year, not a CNR.
Searching by case type, number and year — or by party name, FIR number or advocate — needs an account. The public box takes a CNR only, because a CNR returns exactly one case and the others can return dozens.
Why a code before a simple lookup?
Because it is not simple on our side: every lookup is a call the platform pays for. Without the code one script could spend a day’s budget in a minute, and the next person with a real case number would be turned away.
Can I see the orders and judgments?
Not without an account. Each document is a separate paid call, so they are kept for tracked cases where somebody has an allowance to spend.

Next

Tracking a case in court Find a matter in the court’s own data, keep it, and let its hearings and orders come to you. Getting started as a client The five things worth doing in your first session, in order. Lookups, limits and cost What is free, what is counted, and how to check what you have used.
All guides Reviewed 24 September 2026