Look up details about a civil action

civil-actions-api

The Civil Actions API is intended to be a hub for retrieving information about actions entered into the Civil and Sheriff Information system (CASES). This includes information about documents, hearings, parties (plaintiffs, defendants, etc), activities and more.

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Background

CASES is a legacy system used by the court system that contains a list of: all documents filed in an action, information about parties to the action, hearings, and the results of the hearings.

Each document or hearing has a unique identifier made up of 2-5 character code.

Examples of unique identifiers:

AF = affidavit
SCDEC = Statement of claim - declaration

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Using the shared service

When to use

Use the Civil Actions service when you need to look up details about a Civil Action including:

Plaintiff data

Related Action
Names
Contact information
Counsel of Record
Comments

Defendant data

Related Action
Names
Contact information
Counsel of Record
Comments

Other parties or non parties

Plaintiff
Defendant
Applicant - important enough to add.
Respondent
Intervenor

Hearing data

Related Action
Dates
Durations
Justice
Location
Court Room
Status of the hearing
Result
Comments
Activity/ History Data

Justice’s data

Code
Name
Contact Information
Hearings

When not to use

If you need to write back into CASES. This cannot be done. This API is for validation and for populating fields within your service.

How it works

The Civil Action API currently connects to the Justice legacy database system for civil action information, CASES. This API provides a facade for accessing data from that database.
Access is secured and audited.
In the future this system will aggregate data from CASES, possibly QBSS and new systems such as Court Case Management and QB Filing into a backing Data Lake.

How to access

Testing environment

Access the dev environment to try out and test this shared service within your context and to determine if it fills your need.

Try out and explore the API

UAT endpoint

Production access

To request access to the production environment: email your request to JSG.PlatformSupport@gov.ab.ca

Examples

How it’s used

Court case management digital service

Derek Osadiuk - Digital architect

Chrissy Parkinson - Product owner

[A description of how this is used within the Court Case Management digital service.]

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QB Filing digital service

Ronald Garcia - Digital architect

Helen Maze - Product owner

[A description of how this is used within the Filing digital service.]