How this site earns

CourtsWise is free to use and sells nothing. This page says plainly where its income comes from, so you can weigh what you read.

District sponsors

The District Court is local, so the site’s partner solicitors are too. A firm regulated by the Law Society of Ireland may sponsor the CourtsWise pages for one District Court district, for a fixed monthly fee that does not depend on how many enquiries it receives or on the outcome of any case (Solicitors Act 1954, section 62, bars a solicitor from paying for introductions). Enquiries made through the form are passed to the sponsoring firm for your district with your consent, or to the nearest sponsoring district when yours has none, and nothing is paid for them. The firm is named on the district page, the courthouse pages in that district, and in the consent sentence on the form.

No firm is signed yet. Until one is, enquiries go to Codable Labs Ltd and are passed, with your consent, to one solicitor firm regulated by the Law Society of Ireland that acts in the District Court for your district, and no payment changes hands for them. When a sponsor is signed it will be named here, on its district page and in the consent text on the form.

Legal aid is not a partner

Every criminal guide tells the reader to ask the judge for legal aid at the first appearance before anything else, and the legal aid page explains the tests. A site that sent people who qualify for legal aid to a private solicitor would not deserve its readers.

What never changes

• No payment affects what the guides say. Content is written from the official sources named on each page.
• A solicitor prompt appears under a tool result only where the result itself signals a court matter with custody or disqualification in range: the court band in the drink-driving checker, the 12-point threshold crossed, “likely to qualify” for legal aid, an appeal window under seven days. Fixed-penalty, fines, small-claims, maintenance and spent-conviction results never carry one.
• No enquiry form sits on the family-law or children’s pages, ever.
• No solicitor’s copy on this site states a success rate, quotes an outcome as an inducement, or uses the phrase the advertising rules ban (LSRA Advertising Regulations 2020).
• No court reports, no court-list mirror, no judge directory, no bail or fine intermediaries, no “beat the charge” products, no driver-course sellers claiming to remove points.

Other income, when it exists

• A labelled affiliate placement from an insurance broker on the disqualification, licence-back and “insurance after a drink-driving ban” pages, with the free route (the declined-cases agreement through Insurance Ireland) always linked beside it.
• A labelled legal-expenses or motor legal protection affiliate on the fixed-charge and penalty-points pages, with the line that most policies do not cover a criminal defence.
• A “claim your listing” directory of solicitors by courthouse at a fixed annual fee, with no ranking by fee and no enquiry fee.
• Translayte, the certified-translation service already on StampWise, on the interpreter and foreign-licence pages only, labelled.
• Display advertising only at a floor, only once the site is large enough, and never on the family-law or children’s pages; none at launch.

None of these exists at the date above. Each will be listed here when it does.

The court day pack

The one thing the site sells is the court day pack, a printable PDF built from the free tools’ own lists and the reader’s own dates, at the price shown on its page. Nothing in it is drafted for a particular case, so it is information for reward, never legal services for reward. Payment is taken by Stripe, which keeps the card details; the site keeps the email address and the choices the pack was built from for twelve months, so it can be sent again on request.