A PDF for your court date · €9, once

Your court day, on paper.

Your dates and a day-by-day countdown, your courthouse card, what to bring, the figures for your matter, what the court can do, sheets to prepare what you will say and your means, and a formal character reference. Built from five choices, emailed as a PDF the minute you pay, ready to print and keep with the summons.

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Twelve sections, in the order you need them

About a dozen A4 pages, each drawn from the same rules and the same checklist as the free tools, filled with your matter, your stage, your courthouse and your dates.

  1. Section 1Your dates and your courthouseDays to the court date, the 14-day appeal window as a date, and a card for your courthouse: address, Eircode, office phone and hours, what sits there and when.
  2. Section 2The week before, day by dayCounted back from your date: what to ring, gather, fill and pack on each day, with a box to tick, down to the morning itself.
  3. Section 3What to bringDocuments, money and people for your matter and your stage, as four tick lists with the reason beside each item.
  4. Section 4How the day runsWhat to wear, how to address the judge, and the order things happen in, from the court's own procedure.
  5. Section 5The figures for your matterThe periods, fine classes, limits, points and fees that apply to your kind of case, from the Acts as this site last checked them.
  6. Section 6What the court may doEvery order a District Court judge can make, each marked as a conviction or not. A list, never a prediction.
  7. Section 7Your preparation sheetSix prompts with ruled space: your circumstances, what you have done since, who depends on you, and the two sentences you want to get out.
  8. Section 8Your statement of meansA worksheet with the boxes the court clerk's legal-aid form asks for, so your figures are to hand when the judge asks.
  9. Section 9A character referenceA formal letter for the person who vouches for you, with boxed details, ruled lines for their words and a signature block, plus what it must and must not say.
  10. Section 10After the dayPaying a fine by instalments, what happens if it goes unpaid, the appeal, when a ban starts, getting a licence back, and when a conviction becomes spent.
  11. Section 11Words you will hearA dozen terms the court, the Garda and the office use in your kind of case, defined in plain words.
  12. Section 12Who to callThe court office, free legal advice, and the support lines, with what each is for.

Five choices, then Stripe

The same five questions the free checklist asks. Nothing is stored until the payment goes through; Stripe takes the card, and CourtsWise sees your email address and these choices, nothing else.

The free version stays free. The court day checklist and the case file give the same lists on screen. The pack puts them, your dates and the preparation sheet into one PDF laid out to print.

Nothing in it is drafted for your case: no plea, no notice, no letter to the court. It is information, not legal advice, and it never predicts the outcome.

Build your pack

The courthouse named on your paper is the one. The first three characters of an Eircode give the area.

  • Paid through Stripe; your card never reaches CourtsWise
  • PDF by email within a minute
  • No account, nothing stored from the tools

The pack is a PDF, emailed to you as soon as the payment goes through. By paying you ask for immediate delivery and accept that the 14-day right to withdraw ends once it is sent. It is information, not legal advice, and its templates are generic: nothing in it is drafted for your case. If the email does not arrive, reply to the receipt and it will be sent again.

Questions

Is this legal advice?

No. It is the same information the free tools give, laid out to print, built from the rules configuration this site checks against the Acts. Nothing in it is drafted for your case: no plea, no notice of appeal, no letter to the court. For your own case, ask the judge for legal aid or speak to a solicitor regulated by the Law Society.

What is in it that the free tools are not?

The free checklist gives the lists on screen. The pack adds the day-by-day countdown from your date, the courthouse card, the figures for your matter, the list of orders the court can make, the statement-of-means worksheet, the formal character reference with its signature block, the after-the-day page and the glossary, all in one PDF to print and keep with the summons.

What if the email does not arrive?

It usually lands within a minute, as a PDF attachment with a download link that works for 30 days. Check the spam folder, then reply to the Stripe receipt and it will be sent again by hand.

Can I just use the free tools?

Yes. The court day checklist and the case file give you the same lists on screen, free, and always will. The pack is for people who want it on paper, with their dates, their figures and the preparation sheets in one place.

Information, not legal advice. The pack is built from the same rules configuration as the tools, checked on the date shown. Payment is taken by Stripe; CourtsWise keeps your email address and the choices above for twelve months so the pack can be sent again, and nothing else. Last verified 2026-10-15. CourtsWise is an independent site, not affiliated with the Courts Service, An Garda Síochána, the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Legal Aid Board, the Road Safety Authority or any Government department. It covers the District Court of the Republic of Ireland only. For decisions about your own case, ask the judge for legal aid or speak to a solicitor regulated by the Law Society of Ireland.