SternBench Search
Find and read offshore authorities.
The core case law database for searching, filtering, and reading judgments across SternBench coverage.
SternBench Search Features
Feature 1
Search Across Covered Offshore Jurisdictions
Run one search across the covered offshore jurisdictions instead of checking court sites one by one.
Feature 2
Narrow the Authorities
Filter by jurisdiction and date without rerunning the research from the start.
Feature 3
Assess the Leading Authorities Quickly
See the likely relevant authorities with enough citation, court, date, and excerpt context to decide what to open next.
Feature 4
Open the Full Judgment
Move from the result list into the full judgment without leaving the research flow.
Feature 5
Search Within the Judgment
Jump to the relevant passage inside the judgment without scanning the full text manually.
Feature 6
Follow Cited Authorities
See the authorities cited in the judgment and continue outward from the same case page.
SternBench Search FAQ
SternBench Search is a legal research database in the same product category as Westlaw and LexisNexis, built specifically for offshore case law.
SternBench Search covers 17,000+ offshore judgments collected from official court websites and public records across Bermuda, The Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, ECSC jurisdictions, and the Privy Council, with coverage updated as new decisions become publicly available.
Search runs across the full text of judgments, together with structured case data extracted from those judgments where available. Users can narrow results by jurisdiction, court, and date range, and results are ranked for likely relevance within the selected pool.
Case pages include the full judgment text, citation details, and available structured case data. The product is built around the authority itself, so users can read the judgment directly and move quickly through the relevant material.
No. Search is available without an account. Firm login is only needed for expanded firm access after onboarding.
Court websites are source repositories. SternBench Search is a research tool. It brings covered jurisdictions into one database, improves retrieval across the corpus, and adds structure that makes authorities easier to find, compare, and read.
SternBench Search is focused specifically on offshore case law. The core difference is not the category of product, but the jurisdictional focus: SternBench is built around offshore judgments and authorities rather than treating those jurisdictions as a peripheral part of a much broader database.
Search queries are processed through Google Vertex AI Search. SternBench does not keep server-side search history, does not keep a query-keyed search cache within the application, and does not keep a page-by-page browsing history of judgments opened through the service. SternBench may still retain limited account, security, rate-limit, attribution, and aggregate usage metadata needed to operate and protect the service. Search is designed for research across public-source judgments rather than for submitting firm-confidential, privileged, personal, or other sensitive matter information.