Better Belgian Constitutional Court

Tracking since Apr 1, 2026.

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• Apr 1, 2026
  description

  # Constitutional Court - Enhanced Viewer
  
  Chrome extension for optimized consultation of Belgian Constitutional Court judgments.
  
  Source code avalaible on https://github.com/rafjaf/better-Belgian-Constitutional-Court
  
  ## ✨ Features
  
  ### Full PDF.js Viewer
  - **Professional interface** with complete toolbar (zoom, search, navigation, rotation, presentation mode)
  - **Annotation and highlighting**: ability to highlight text and save annotated PDFs
  - **In-document search** (Ctrl/Cmd+F)
  - **Thumbnails and bookmarks** for quick navigation
  - **Print and download** with advanced options
  
  ### Automatic Reference Detection
  - **Smart extraction** of the judgement date from PDF content
  - **Bilingual support**: French (fr.const-court.be) and Dutch (nl.const-court.be)
  - **Historical recognition**: automatically uses "C.A." / "Arbitragehof" for judgments before May 2007
  - **Formatted display**: 
    - French: `C.C., 23 octobre 2025, n° 135/2025`
    - Dutch: `GwH 19 juli 2007, nr. 106/2007`
  
  ### Enhanced Copy with Automatic Citation
  - **B paragraph detection**: automatically identifies the B point where the copied passage comes from
  - **Automatic formatting**: text copied to clipboard will be formatted as `"selected text" (C.C., 23 octobre 2025, n° 135/2025, point B.5)`
  - **Multilingual handling**: adapts "point B." / "punt B." according to language
  - **HTML and plain text copy** for maximum compatibility
  
  ### Smart Download
  - **Automatic naming**: `C.C. 2025-135.pdf` or `Arbitragehof 2006-42.pdf`
  - **Dedicated button** in top banner
  - **Annotations included** in the downloaded file
  
  ## 🎯 Usage
  
  The extension will automatically activate on:
  - `https://fr.const-court.be/public/f/*`
  - `https://nl.const-court.be/public/n/*`
  
  1. **Open a judgment** on the Constitutional Court website
  2. **View** the PDF with all PDF.js viewer features
  3. **Copy** a passage: the complete reference with B point will be automatically added
  4. **Download**: the file will have a formatted and standardized name
  
  ## Treatment of personal data
  No personal data whatsoever is treated by this extension.
  
  ## 📝 Credits
  
  - **Author**: Rafaël Jafferali
  - **PDF.js**: Mozilla Foundation (Apache License 2.0)
  - **Vibe-coded** with the help of Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Anthropic)
  
  ## Release history
  
  - 1.0.0 : first version
  - 1.0.1 : fixed detection of the date of the judgement
  - 1.0.2 : improved detection of location of copied text to build correct reference

  # Better Belgian Constitutional Court
  
  Browser extension for optimized consultation of Belgian Constitutional Court judgments. 
  
  Install :
  - on Chrome : https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/better-belgian-constituti/jnmabkmfhbfdbpfbljcnooecglmfoagl
  - on Firefox : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/better-constitutional-court/
  
  ![Screenshot](Screenshot.png)
  
  ## ✨ Features
  
  ### Full PDF.js Viewer
  - **Professional interface** with complete toolbar (zoom, search, navigation, rotation, presentation mode)
  - **Annotation and highlighting**: ability to highlight text and save annotated PDFs
  - **In-document search** (Ctrl/Cmd+F)
  - **Thumbnails and bookmarks** for quick navigation
  - **Print and download** with advanced options
  
  ### Automatic Reference Detection
  - **Smart extraction** of the judgement date from PDF content
  - **Bilingual support**: French (fr.const-court.be) and Dutch (nl.const-court.be)
  - **Historical recognition**: automatically uses "C.A." / "Arbitragehof" for judgments before May 2007
  - **Formatted display**: 
    - French: `C.C., 23 octobre 2025, n° 135/2025`
    - Dutch: `GwH 19 juli 2007, nr. 106/2007`
  
  ### Enhanced Copy with Automatic Citation
  - **B paragraph detection**: automatically identifies the B point where the copied passage comes from
  - **Automatic formatting**: text copied to clipboard will be formatted as `"selected text" (C.C., 23 octobre 2025, n° 135/2025, point B.5)`
  - **Multilingual handling**: adapts "point B." / "punt B." according to language
  - **HTML and plain text copy** for maximum compatibility
  
  ### Smart Download
  - **Automatic naming**: `C.C. 2025-135.pdf` or `Arbitragehof 2006-42.pdf`
  - **Dedicated button** in top banner
  - **Annotations included** in the downloaded file
  
  ## 🎯 Usage
  
  The extension will automatically activate on:
  - `https://fr.const-court.be/public/f/*`
  - `https://nl.const-court.be/public/n/*`
  
  1. **Open a judgment** on the Constitutional Court website
  2. **View** the PDF with all PDF.js viewer features
  3. **Copy** a passage: the complete reference with B point will be automatically added
  4. **Download**: the file will have a formatted and standardized name
  
  ## Treatment of personal data
  No personal data whatsoever is treated by this extension.
  
  ## 📝 Credits
  
  - **Author**: Rafaël Jafferali
  - **PDF.js**: Mozilla Foundation (Apache License 2.0)
  - **Vibe-coded** with the help of Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Anthropic)
  
  ## Release history
  
  - 1.0.0 : first version
  - 1.0.1 : fixed detection of the date of the judgement
  - 1.0.2 : improved detection of location of copied text to build correct reference
  - 1.0.3 : fixed B-point detection when copied passage contains cross-references to other B-points

Permissions & access

Permissions

None declared

Host access

https://nl.const-court.be/public/n/*, https://nl.const-court.be/public/f/*, https://fr.const-court.be/public/f/*, https://fr.const-court.be/public/n/*

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