Interesting to compare this to government dismay when Meta shut down CrowdTangle; apparently government hates being held to account by third parties:

Enda Leahy, the Courtsdesk chief executive […said]: “We built the only system that could tell journalists what was actually happening in the criminal courts. “HMCTS’s own data proves they can’t do it — their records were accurate 4.2 per cent of the time, 1.6 million cases were heard without any advance notice to the press.

… An HMCTS spokesman said that the press always had and would retain full access to information from the courts to ensure accurate reporting.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/moj-orders-deletion-of-uks-largest-court-reporting-archive-27f5zcbb7