Better Constitutional Court av Rafaël Jafferali

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/



✨ 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