Documentation, guides and tutorials

Best practice on designing, building, managing and documenting an integration with an HMCTS API.

Your integration journey

1. Understand the justice landscape
2. Prepare your integration
3. Build your API integration
4. Test your integration
5. Go live with your integration

Getting started with our APIs walks through those stages in order. The pages below go deeper on each.

Architecture

• HMCTS architecture — how architecture works across our products and services
• HMCTS architecture principles — best practice when designing systems for the justice sector
• Our capabilities — the categories of business service HMCTS provides

Technical reference

• Our API technologies — the technologies used to build and publish HMCTS APIs
• Glossary of developer terms — terminology used across the marketplace

Context and examples

• Introduction to justice sector technology — how HMCTS systems fit together
• Building justice sector software — designing for court and tribunal settings
• API platform case studies — how teams have integrated with our APIs

Everything in one place

A to Z of developer resources lists every page on the marketplace.