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We identify recurring litigation.

Vigie™ is Hello Justice’s proprietary litigation detection algorithm. It reads published court decisions, legal notices and regulators’ sanctions, and spots series of similar disputes in them. Hello Justice built it in Lyon and owns it.

Our selection method
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What the courts publish.

In the United States, dockets of pending proceedings are public, and funders use them to find cases. In France, writs of summons are not made public, but the decisions handed down are published, in full and free of charge.

  • Court decisions as open data.

    Civil decisions of the French judicial courts have been released as open data since 30 September 2025. In France, litigation is therefore spotted through a legal question that keeps coming back in court decisions, and through the people it concerns. These sources are open to everyone. Hello Justice built Vigie to find in them the litigation it can fund.

  • Judilibre (Cour de cassation)

    Published court decisions: landmark rulings, legal questions that keep coming back.

  • Légifrance (DILA)

    The statutes and decrees that open or close the possibility of a claim.

  • BODACC (DILA)

    Companies’ legal notices: insolvency proceedings, disposals.

  • French Competition Authority

    Decisions and sanctions against anticompetitive practices.

  • CNIL

    Sanctions for breaches of data protection rules.

  • AMF and ACPR

    Sanctions in banking, insurance and financial markets.

  • DGCCRF

    Sanctions, investigations and product recalls (RappelConso).

  • National business register (INPI)

    The identity and status of the companies involved.

How Vigie works.

  1. Step 1

    Monitoring.

    Vigie queries these sources every day. Every query is checked before its results enter the database: a decision that is not about the dispute being monitored is left out.

  2. Step 2

    Detection.

    The decisions collected are de‑duplicated, dated and reviewed. When the same legal question keeps coming back, it points to a possible series.

  3. Step 3

    Evaluating a series.

    Before opening a series, Hello Justice checks that the law is sound, that many people are affected, that the claim is not time‑barred and that the defendant can pay. It also checks that the cases are similar enough to share the same documents, and that the commission expected on a case won clearly exceeds the cost of handling it.

    One disqualifying point, such as an expired limitation period, is enough to set the series aside. Vigie evaluates series of disputes: no individual litigant is scored.

  4. Step 4

    Opening a programme.

    The decision to open a series rests with Hello Justice’s team and the specialised partner lawyers. A series taken forward becomes a programme, with its own online process and standard documents. The eligibility of each case is then analysed separately.

  5. Step 5

    Follow‑up.

    Each case is followed through to its outcome. A new decision on the legal question is reflected across every case in the series.
Vigie console illustration: active monitors on published rulings and the assessment of a pool of serial litigation, in which no individual is rated. Illustrative data

What Vigie monitors.

These figures come live from Vigie’s database: decisions collected, courts covered and, for each monitor, the yearly volume of published decisions.

Reading the radar figures.

What we have built.

  • The cases in progress

    More than 600 live cases, taken on since 2024, have refined the qualification questions, the standard documents and the knowledge of each court.

  • The network of specialised partner lawyers

    Hello Justice works with specialised partner lawyers, chosen by field. The network is still being built.

  • The platform

    Reading the public sources, analysing and following the cases all run on one platform, built and owned by Hello Justice.

  • A defined segment

    Hello Justice funds disputes with €100,000 to €1m at stake. Listed funders target much larger cases: Burford Capital, for example, funds cases of at least $5m.

The safeguards.

  • Public data

    Vigie only reads public sources, in line with their reuse licences.

  • Pseudonymised individuals

    Individuals remain pseudonymised. Hello Justice never tries to identify them.

  • Analyses by court

    Article L. 111-13 of the French judicial organisation code prohibits evaluating or predicting a judge’s practices from their identity. Vigie studies decisions by court.

Test your dispute’s eligibility.

Six questions about your dispute are enough, and the test is free.

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