01 Search
SternBench Search
The offshore judgment database for finding, filtering, and reading authorities across covered jurisdictions.
- Best for
- Direct authority retrieval, issue spotting, and reading the judgment itself.
- Access
- Available now.
The Offshore Case Law Database.
SternBench maintains 17,000+ offshore judgments across Cayman, BVI/ECSC, Bermuda, The Bahamas, and the Privy Council, updated daily and available through search and approved integration workflows.
- Judgments
- 17,000+
- Coverage
- Cayman, BVI, Bermuda, The Bahamas, ECSC, & Privy Council
- Access
- Search + MCP/API
- Security
- Built for legal security review
Products
One maintained offshore authority database.
Use SternBench Search to find, filter, and read offshore authorities directly. Use SternBench Authority when the same database needs to be available through approved MCP/API or AI-provider integration workflows.
02 Authority
SternBench Authority
The MCP/API authority-retrieval layer for making SternBench's offshore caselaw database available in approved AI and knowledge workflows.
- Best for
- Retrieving source-linked authorities, quote-ready passages, paragraph pinpoints, and SternBench Search links through approved integration workflows.
- Access
- Available for authorized pilot, review, and integration discussions.
Why SternBench
Built for offshore legal work.
Dedicated offshore coverage, maintained daily, with direct search and integration-ready authority retrieval.
Dedicated Offshore Coverage
SternBench is focused on offshore judgments across Cayman, BVI, Bermuda, The Bahamas, ECSC, and the Privy Council.
One Database, Searchable and Integration-Ready
SternBench Search and SternBench Authority operate on the same maintained offshore judgment database, so direct research and integration workflows stay tied to identifiable source authorities.
Structured for Diligence Review
SternBench is built on public judgments, does not use user data for AI model training, and can support security, legal, and procurement review.
Coverage
Coverage across the core offshore jurisdictions.
Current public-source coverage across Cayman, BVI, Bermuda, The Bahamas, ECSC, and the Privy Council. Coverage is assembled from official court websites and public judicial sources.
- Judgments
- 17,000+
- Coverage Areas
- 6
- Updated daily
- 365
British Virgin Islands
Available through ECSC judgments
- Live date range
- 1991 to current
Sources
The Bahamas
Supreme Court and Court of Appeal
- Live date range
- 1996 to current
Privy Council
Current site plus archive coverage
- Live date range
- 2000 to current
FAQ
SternBench is a maintained offshore case law database, available through SternBench Search and SternBench Authority.
Start with SternBench Search for direct authority retrieval and judgment reading. Use SternBench Authority when the same database needs to be available through approved MCP/API or AI-provider integration workflows.
SternBench covers Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, The Bahamas, Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court jurisdictions, and the Privy Council.
SternBench Search is publicly accessible. SternBench Authority is available for authorized pilot, review, and integration discussions.
Court websites are source repositories. SternBench brings covered offshore jurisdictions into one working database and layers search, structure, and integration-ready authority retrieval on top of that corpus.
SternBench is not a general AI workspace. It is a maintained offshore authority database and retrieval layer designed to keep legal research tied to identifiable judgments, citations, and source material.