Houses of justice
File: data/houses-of-justice.json. The houses of justice (justitiehuizen, maisons de justice) of the Flemish and French Communities: 27 records.
Houses of justice guide and supervise offenders on the courts' and prosecutors' behalf (probation, electronic monitoring, community service), welcome victims, and write social studies for the family courts. The Communities run them since 2015.
Why it's useful
- Family law. A family court orders a social study from the house of justice of the family's area; lawyers and parties need its contacts.
- Criminal law. Probation conditions, alternative sentences and electronic monitoring are followed up by the house of justice; so is the reception of victims.
- Linking. The Flemish houses carry their OVO number, the identifier in the Flemish organisation register (Wegwijs), so the data joins with other Flemish government data.
Source and updates
| Source | vlaanderen.be: Justitiehuizen (Flemish Community) and maisonsdejustice.be (French Community) |
| Built by | scripts/parse from the weekly snapshots |
| Changes when | A house of justice moves, or changes its contact details |
| Covers | 20 October 2026 onwards, the day the sites were first read: lookups for an earlier day throw a RangeError (time) |
| Checked | Every week, by the sources workflow |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
Not in the data yet: the German-speaking Community's house of justice in Eupen (#3). Brussels has both a Flemish (justitiehuis-brussel) and a French-speaking house (maison-justice-bruxelles).
Fields
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
id | HouseOfJusticeId | From the name, without articles: justitiehuis-gent, maison-justice-arlon |
validFrom, validTo | string? | The days the record applies, as the site listed it; none: since the coverage starts, or still applies. See time |
community | 'flemish' | 'french' | 'german' | The Community that runs it |
name | { nl } or { fr } | In the Community's language |
ovo | string? | OVO number in the Flemish organisation register, for the Flemish houses: OVO001917 |
address | Address | With the municipality its postal code belongs to (municipality, by REFNIS code) |
contacts | Contact[] | Phone, fax and e-mail; the victims' service of a French-speaking house has its own, labelled contacts |
website | { nl } or { fr } | The page it's listed on |
sources | { url, retrieved }[] | The pages the record was read from |
ts
import { getHouseOfJustice, getContact } from 'belgica/houses-of-justice'
getHouseOfJustice('justitiehuis-gent').ovo // 'OVO001917'
getContact(getHouseOfJustice('maison-justice-arlon'), 'email', "service d'accueil des victimes")