FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about Judisyn.
Judisyn currently holds 1,683 full-text judgments from 3 courts, ingested from the National Archives Find Case Law service: the UK Supreme Court (953), the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (706), and a small sample of the Court of Appeal, Civil Division (24 judgments, which is nowhere near that court's output and should not be treated as coverage of it). The High Court, Crown Court, the tribunal system, and the devolved courts of Scotland and Northern Ireland are not included at all, though Scottish and Northern Irish appeals decided by the Supreme Court are. Our coverage page carries the live figures.
Not far, and this is the most important limitation to understand. The earliest judgment in the database is from 2009, because our coverage begins with the creation of the UK Supreme Court. There is no pre-2009 material at all, so the older leading authorities that much of English law rests on are simply not here. Judisyn is a tool for researching recent appellate decisions; it is not a substitute for a full historic archive, and you will need another source for anything older.
Judisyn is built AI-first with a modern interface. While legacy platforms require Boolean search expertise and charge premium prices for dated UIs, Judisyn offers natural language search, AI-generated summaries and headnotes, citation networks, and a beautiful reading experience.
No. Judisyn is entirely web-based and works in any modern browser on desktop, tablet, and mobile. Sign in and start researching immediately from your dashboard.
Our AI reads full judgment text and generates summaries, extracts legal principles (ratio decidendi), identifies facts and issues, answers your specific questions, and finds similar cases. The platform can run against OpenAI's API or against a self-hosted Ollama model; with a local model nothing is sent outside our infrastructure. Whichever is used, AI output can be wrong, so check every citation and quotation against the primary source before relying on it.
Yes. Professional and Enterprise plans include export to PDF, Word, and standard citation formats including OSCOLA. Bookmarks, highlights, and notes sync across your account.
We do not sell your data, show you advertising, or run any analytics or tracking on the site. Your searches, bookmarks and notes are visible only to you and to the small number of our staff who need database access to operate the service. Two things you should know rather than assume: connections are encrypted in transit with TLS, but we do not currently apply application-level encryption to stored search history or notes; and our servers are located in Mumbai, India, so your data is held outside the UK. If you use the AI features, the judgment text and question concerned are sent to OpenAI in the United States, which does not train its models on API data but does retain it for up to 30 days for abuse monitoring. Our privacy policy sets all of this out in full, and you should not paste privileged client information into AI prompts.
You can, but apply your usual professional judgement about what you put in. Searching for authorities carries little risk. Entering client names, contact details or case specifics into the Advocate Diary or your notes means that information is stored on our servers in Mumbai, India, and you remain the data controller for it. Prompts you send to the AI features leave our infrastructure and go to OpenAI. For genuinely sensitive matters, ask us about running the AI on a local model so that nothing is sent to a third party, and keep identifying client details out of free-text fields.
We offer Free, Starter, Professional, and Enterprise plans. Visit our pricing page for details. All paid plans include a free trial period.
Yes. Judisyn is fully responsive and works on smartphones and tablets. Research on the go from any device with a modern browser.