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Built for legal work anywhere. Honest about where it is verified.

A matter carries its own jurisdiction. Where an approved source list exists, every citation is checked against it. Where one does not exist yet, research runs at open-web quality with the same gates, and the output says so.

Start freeSee the approved sources

Every citation checked against a public source, wherever the matter sits

Verified source list

Every citation checked against a public source

Citation style and jurisdiction gate

House style applied; sources ranked from the open web

Open-web research, same gates

Ranked sources, honest labelling

By jurisdiction

What verified means, place by place.

Three tiers, stated plainly. A matter's jurisdiction decides which one applies, and the memo carries the label.

  • England and Wales

    Verified source list

    Courts, legislation, Parliament, regulators and ombudsmen.

    • Find Case Law
    • BAILII
    • legislation.gov.uk
    • FCA Handbook
    • ICO
    • SRA
    • OSCOLA

  • Scotland

    Verified source list

    Scottish courts and devolved legislation, kept apart from English authority by the jurisdiction gate.

    • Scottish Courts
    • Law Society of Scotland
    • OSCOLA

  • Northern Ireland

    Verified source list

    Judiciary NI and the Northern Ireland legislation series.

    • NI Judiciary
    • legislation.gov.uk
    • OSCOLA

  • Ireland

    Verified source list

    Irish courts and the Irish Statute Book, with OSCOLA-Ireland formatting.

    • Irish Statute Book
    • Courts Service of Ireland
    • OSCOLA-Ireland

  • European Union

    Verified source list

    Treaties, regulations, directives, the CJEU and the EU regulators.

    • EUR-Lex
    • CURIA
    • EDPB
    • ESMA

  • Council of Europe

    Verified source list

    The European Court of Human Rights and its case-law database.

    • HUDOC

  • EU member states

    Verified source list

    National primary law used by the Cross-Jurisdictional Comparator: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland and Portugal.

    • Légifrance
    • Bundesgerichtshof
    • Normattiva
    • BOE
    • Rechtspraak

  • International bodies

    Verified source list

    Treaty bodies and standards organisations for cross-border and regulatory work.

    • UN Treaty Collection
    • OECD
    • FATF
    • WIPO
    • WTO
    • UNCITRAL

  • United States

    Citation style and jurisdiction gate

    Bluebook formatting and the jurisdiction gate today; open-web ranked sources with the same gates; the memo says which.

    • Bluebook citation style
    • Jurisdiction Gatekeeper
    • Bluebook

  • Everywhere else

    Open-web research, same gates

    Australia, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Gulf and beyond: open-web research with the same gates, labelled honestly, in your firm's own house style. WorldLII and CommonLII are already on the approved list.

    • WorldLII
    • CommonLII
    • Same four gates
    • Firm house style

How sources are ranked

Courts and legislation first. Then regulators. Then everything else.

Authority is not a popularity contest. A supreme court judgment outranks a regulator's guidance, which outranks a law firm's briefing, which outranks a blog. The ranking is fixed in code, applied to every search, and shown in Where we looked so you can see why a source was preferred.
  1. 1

    Primary law

    Judgments from the courts and the text of legislation, from the official publisher or the national law reports service.

    Find Case Law, BAILII, legislation.gov.uk, EUR-Lex, CURIA, HUDOC

  2. 2

    Regulators and official bodies

    Rules, guidance and enforcement decisions from the regulator itself, with the regulator's own effective dates preserved.

    FCA Handbook, ICO, SRA, EDPB, ESMA, Bank of England

  3. 3

    Parliament and official record

    Bills, committee reports and the verbatim record, for legislative history and intent.

    UK Parliament, Hansard, official gazettes

  4. 4

    Treaty bodies and standards

    International instruments and the organisations that keep them.

    UN Treaty Collection, OECD, FATF, WIPO, WTO, UNCITRAL

  5. 5

    Open web, labelled

    Everything else, used only where a matter's jurisdiction has no approved list, and always labelled as such in the output.

    Ranked by domain authority; never a paywalled database

Every case also carries a treatment signal from the Citator: good law, followed, applied, distinguished, doubted, overruled or unverified. A doubted or overruled authority caps the confidence of the section that relies on it.

The approved list

74 public sources, published.

Every source the citation gates can confirm against, grouped by region, with the domain the gate checks. You can open every one of them for free.

UK and Ireland

44

Courts, legislation, Parliament, regulators and ombudsmen across England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland.

EU

18

EU treaties, courts and regulators, plus member-state primary law used by the Cross-Jurisdictional Comparator.

International

12

Treaty bodies and standards organisations relevant to cross-border and regulatory work.

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