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From the case file to the argument.

Upload one document. The matter opens itself — parties, court, case number, stage — and then the work begins: the material facts with the page and paragraph they came from, the legal issues, the authority on each of them, the arguments for and against, and a draft you can settle.

Indian courts and tribunals · Supreme Court and High Court judgments · English and Hindi documents, including scans

One upload, then the whole first pass

The point is not to answer questions faster. It is that the first day's work on a file — reading it, listing the issues, finding the cases, checking they say what you remember — has already been done when you sit down.

The file is read

Text is extracted, and scanned pages are put through OCR in English and Hindi. The cause title gives the court, the case number, the parties and the stage, and those fields fill themselves. Every fact that is pulled out keeps the page and paragraph it came from, so you can put it to a witness without going back to the bundle.

The governing law is settled first

Before any case is looked for, the system establishes what law actually governs: which forum, which statute or treaty, whose decisions bind it, and whether the record is still open. A moot on an international convention is not governed by Indian service law, and saying so at the top is what stops comparative material being argued as the applicable law.

The issues are framed, then researched

Each issue is stated as a court would put it, with the provisions it engages, and searched against a licensed database of Indian judgments as well as the judgments you already hold. Both are searched together; you are not asked which.

Every authority is checked before it reaches your list

This is the part that matters, and it is set out in full below. A judgment that is merely similar, merely from the right court, or merely on the right subject does not qualify. If nothing qualifies, the system says so rather than filling the page.

Arguments and drafts come out in the right form

Submissions with the authority behind each one, what the other side will say, and your reply. Drafts — a legal notice, a petition with a synopsis and list of dates, a plaint with its verification, written submissions, a bail application — in the form the registry expects, ready to be settled and filed.

Why this exists

A list of search results is not a list of authorities

Every research tool can find cases that look relevant. The difficulty is the one that shows up at the podium: a judgment from the right court, in the right field, factually close — that does not decide the point you are arguing. Cited in a memorial, it is worse than nothing, because opposing counsel will read it and you will not have.

So this system keeps two lists, and never mixes them. Research candidates are things worth reading. Final authorities are things you can stand up and rely on. Nothing moves from the first list to the second until every one of these is true:

If it is uncertain, it stays out. An empty authority list with an honest note is a usable answer. A padded one is not.

The checks, all of which must pass

  • The judgment is on file, with its text — not a citation someone remembers.
  • Its citation is recorded and matches the report.
  • It is in the area of law the issue belongs to, not a neighbouring one.
  • It supports a stated proposition — a rule, not a topic.
  • The words said to establish that proposition are found in the judgment, character for character.
  • Those words are the court's holding, not counsel's argument or another case being summarised.
  • Whether it binds your forum is established, not assumed.
  • It has not been overruled or superseded.
  • It maps to the issue it was retrieved for.
The quotation is checked against the judgment itself, not against what the system believes the judgment says. A passage that was composed, tidied, or joined across a gap will not be found — and the authority fails. This is the one check that cannot be argued around, which is why the rest are built on it.

What you get on the file

The briefing

Governing law, material facts with their provenance, the chronology, the issues, the authority on each, and what still needs your attention. Click any line to see the whole record behind it.

The authorities

Grouped as a memorial groups them: governing and binding, persuasive, comparative, and the contrary authority the other side will rely on. Exportable as a table.

The drafts

Notices, petitions, plaints, written statements and submissions in proper form, with the placeholders you still have to fill marked as placeholders rather than invented.

Research

Drop a document and it is searched against reported judgments for anything bearing on it. What is set aside, and why, is shown alongside what is kept.

The cause list

Hearings, limitation and the next step on each matter, so nothing turns on a date nobody was watching.

Ask

Anything about the file, or about the law generally. An answer grounded in the record is labelled as such; a general one is labelled as unverified, so you always know which you are reading.

What it does not do

It does not advise. It does not decide what to argue. It does not sign anything. Every draft it produces is a first draft for you to settle, and every authority it puts on your list is one you should read before you rely on it — the checks above are there to make that reading worth your time, not to replace it.

Where it cannot establish something, it says so in those words. That is the whole design.