 Founding members of Judgmental included Francis Irving, one of the developers of TheyWorkForYou.Judgmental shut down under threat of legal action regarding the court records for a libel case.Former BAILII chairman Henry Brooke defended criticisms, stating that the restrictions on indexing were to ensure that records could be retroactively edited or removed for clerical or legal reasons, such as errors, information that was not authorized to be published, or records that have not been properly anonymized.