ItalgiureCivile Dataset

Dataset Description

This dataset contains legal documents (court decisions) from the Italian civil justice system, collected from the Italgiure database maintained by the Italian Ministry of Justice.

Source

The data is sourced from Italgiure (Sistema Nazionale di Consultazione delle Banche Dati Giuridiche), the official Italian legal database system operated by the Italian Ministry of Justice. Italgiure provides access to legal decisions from Italian courts, including civil and criminal cases.

Source Website: https://www.italgiure.giustizia.it/

Dataset Structure

The dataset consists of:

• Metadata file: data.parquet - Contains structured information about each legal document
• PDF documents: Located in the documents/ folder - Original PDF files of the court decisions

Data Fields

Each record in the dataset contains the following fields:

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Unique internal ID (e.g., snciv2025333163O)
decisionNumber	string	Decision number
filingDate	string	Filing date (format: YYYYMMDD)
president	string	Name of the court president
relator	string	Name of the relator (judge who prepared the decision)
type	string	Type of legal decision (e.g., "Ordinanza", "Sentenza")
section	string (nullable)	Court section
year	string (nullable)	Year of the decision
summary	list[string] (nullable)	OCR summary of the document
italGiureFileName	string	Original filename on Italgiure
hfFileName	string	URL to the PDF file on HuggingFace (in documents/ folder)
originalDecisionCourt	string (nullable)	Original decision court
originalDecisionNumber	string (nullable)	Original decision number
originalDecisionFilingDate	string (nullable)	Original decision filing date

Dataset Statistics

• Language: Italian
• Size: 100K < n < 1M records
• Format: Parquet (metadata) + PDF (documents)
• License: MIT

Usage

Loading the Dataset

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("TomatoChat/ItalgiureCivile")

# Access the data
for example in dataset["train"]:
    print(example["id"])
    print(example["decisionNumber"])
    print(example["hfFileName"])  # URL to the PDF

Accessing PDF Documents

PDF files are stored in the documents/ folder and can be accessed via the hfFileName field, which contains the HuggingFace URL to the document.

Data Collection

This dataset was collected using the ItalgiureCivileScraper tool, which:

1. Queries the Italgiure Solr API for legal documents
2. Downloads PDF files from the Italgiure database
3. Extracts and structures metadata
4. Uploads everything to HuggingFace

Citation

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite:

@dataset{italgiure_civile_2025,
  title={ItalgiureCivile: Italian Civil Court Decisions Dataset},
  author={TomatoChat},
  year={2025},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/TomatoChat/ItalgiureCivile},
  note={Data sourced from Italgiure (Italian Ministry of Justice)}
}

Disclaimer

This dataset contains publicly available legal documents from the Italian justice system. The data is provided for research and educational purposes. Users should comply with all applicable laws and regulations when using this dataset.

License

This dataset is released under the MIT License. However, please note that:

• The original legal documents remain the property of the Italian Ministry of Justice
• Users should respect copyright and usage terms of the source material
• This dataset is provided for research and educational purposes

Acknowledgments

• Data Source: Italgiure - Sistema Nazionale di Consultazione delle Banche Dati Giuridiche, Italian Ministry of Justice