HCEO LTD

HCEO LTD is a British legal technology company that operates the Justice Index network, a family of free reference platforms covering the law and justice system of England and Wales. According to the company's own about page, the project was founded by Morgan Sheldon, an Authorised High Court Enforcement Officer (FCICM, FRSA, MLIBF), and is operated by HCEO LTD under Company No. 13112735. The company describes itself as building structured legal reference material combined with free interactive tools such as calculators, decision aids, comparison tables, glossaries, and step-by-step guides. The Justice Index network spans 14 platforms covering every stage of the justice system, from legislation and courts to sentencing, policing, and enforcement. The network's stated scale includes 178,000+ laws, 1,184,000+ sections, 3,940,000+ court decisions, 469,000+ statistical records, 508+ courts and tribunals, and 300+ criminal offences. Individual platforms include legislation.uk for UK Acts, Statutory Instruments and secondary legislation; statutes.uk for Acts of Parliament in force; precedents.uk for legal principles and the doctrine of precedent; rulings.uk for case law; courts.uk for court procedures, fees, forms and an interactive court map; appeals.uk for appeal routes; jurisdiction.uk for courts, tribunals and jurisdictional scope; policing.uk for police powers, PACE codes and criminal law; sentencing.uk for sentencing guidelines and offence guides; penalties.uk for criminal penalties and sentencing ranges; prisons.uk for prison law and prisoner rights; and enforcement.uk for enforcement law reference and tools. The company states that all data is sourced from official government open data publications including legislation.gov.uk, the Sentencing Council, HM Courts and Tribunals Service, data.police.uk, the Ministry of Justice, and Companies House, with Crown Copyright content reproduced under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The service is positioned as free and open, aiming to make legal information that is otherwise spread across government websites, buried in PDFs, or locked behind expensive databases more usable for both practitioners and the public. HCEO LTD is a private limited company and, as of the available evidence, remains an active operator of the Justice Index network.

HCEO LTD was incorporated in the United Kingdom as a private limited company under Company No. 13112735. The Justice Index project was founded by Morgan Sheldon, an Authorised High Court Enforcement Officer holding the designations FCICM, FRSA, and MLIBF. In his account on the Justice Index about page, Sheldon explains that he built enforcement.uk out of frustration: the information that practitioners and the public need about enforcement law is available but hard to use, spread across government websites, buried in PDFs, or locked behind expensive databases. He set out to build something better than a collection of links: a structured legal reference with fee calculators, decision tools, interactive guides, a searchable legislation library, and side-by-side method comparisons. Sheldon observed that the rest of the justice system has the same problem. Sentencing guidelines exist but are difficult to navigate; court procedures and forms are published across half a dozen different sites; policing powers are in the legislation but hard to find quickly. Justice Index grew from there, with each platform covering a different part of the system and each having its own tools and reference material. The network now spans 14 platforms covering every stage of the justice system of England and Wales: legislation, courts, sentencing, policing, enforcement, and more. The network's platforms include legislation.uk (UK Acts, Statutory Instruments, and secondary legislation with searchable full text and section-level browsing), statutes.uk (every Act of Parliament in force in the United Kingdom), precedents.uk (legal principles, the doctrine of precedent, binding authority, court hierarchy, and how case law shapes the law), rulings.uk (case law database covering 3.9 million+ court judgments and judicial decisions across all jurisdictions), courts.uk (court procedures, fees, forms, tribunal guidance, and an interactive court map), appeals.uk (appeal routes across civil, criminal, family, and tribunal jurisdictions with step-by-step procedure guides), jurisdiction.uk (courts, tribunals, and jurisdictional scope across England and Wales), policing.uk (police powers, PACE codes, criminal law, force directories, and rights reference), sentencing.uk (sentencing guidelines, offence-by-offence guides, and outcome data), penalties.uk (criminal penalties, sentencing ranges, guidelines, and outcome statistics), prisons.uk (prison law, prisoner rights, sentences, release, parole, and rehabilitation), and enforcement.uk (free enforcement law reference and tools). According to the company, all data is sourced from official government open data publications including legislation.gov.uk, the Sentencing Council, HM Courts and Tribunals Service, data.police.uk, the Ministry of Justice, and Companies House, with Crown Copyright content reproduced under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The service is free and open. The network's stated scale includes 178,000+ laws, 1,184,000+ sections, 3,940,000+ court decisions, 469,000+ statistical records, 508+ courts and tribunals, and 300+ criminal offences. HCEO LTD operates the Justice Index network and remains an active private company.

• HCEO LTD incorporated in the United Kingdom as a private limited company under Company No. 13112735.

• Justice Index project founded by Morgan Sheldon, an Authorised High Court Enforcement Officer.

• enforcement.uk built as the first platform, offering enforcement law reference and tools.

• Justice Index network expanded to 14 platforms covering legislation, courts, sentencing, policing, enforcement, and more.

Free, open, structured legal reference and interactive tools for the justice system of England and Wales, sourced from official government open data.

• legislation.uk

  UK Acts, Statutory Instruments, and secondary legislation. Searchable full text with section-level browsing. 178,000+ legislation items.

• statutes.uk

  Every Act of Parliament in force in the United Kingdom. Full text with section-level access and search. 5,300+ statutes.

• precedents.uk

  Legal principles, the doctrine of precedent, binding authority, court hierarchy, and how case law shapes the law. 43 legal principles.

• rulings.uk

  Case law database covering 3.9 million+ court judgments and judicial decisions across all jurisdictions.

• courts.uk

  Court procedures, fees, forms, tribunal guidance, and an interactive court map. 490+ courts mapped.

• appeals.uk

  Appeal routes across civil, criminal, family, and tribunal jurisdictions with step-by-step procedure guides. 33 appeal routes.

• jurisdiction.uk

  Courts, tribunals, and jurisdictional scope across England and Wales. 33 jurisdiction guides.

• policing.uk

  Police powers, PACE codes, criminal law, force directories, and rights reference. 1,300+ police powers.

• sentencing.uk

  Sentencing guidelines, offence-by-offence guides, and outcome data. 300 offence guides.

• penalties.uk

  Criminal penalties, sentencing ranges, guidelines, and outcome statistics. 207 offences.

• prisons.uk

  Prison law, prisoner rights, sentences, release, parole, and rehabilitation. 112 prisons profiled.

• enforcement.uk

  Free enforcement law reference and tools.

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