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The full archive of essays on pre-hearing intelligence, judicial analysis, and the practice of preparing for court.
Legal Data & Ethics
16 July 2026
8 min read
No UK regulator has banned AI from case preparation. The SRA, Bar Council, BSB and judiciary all ask the same thing: that you stay responsible for the work.
Legal Data & Ethics
25 July 2026
9 min read
US analytics proved the public record holds real signal about judges. France made profiling them a crime. The UK's position defines the only tool that belongs here.
Judicial Analytics
24 July 2026
9 min read
A precedent's authority is not fixed when it is handed down. It is narrowed, doubted and sometimes overruled by later courts. Knowing where a case stands today is the real skill.
Product Thinking
23 July 2026
9 min read
The hard part of legal AI is not intelligence, it is trust. A founder's account of the design decisions that put trust first, and why each is the commercially smart one.
Methodology
22 July 2026
10 min read
What does [2021] EWHC 111 (Comm) mean? A plain guide to UK neutral citations, court abbreviations, paragraph pinpointing, and how to find and read any judgment since 2001.
Legal Climate
21 July 2026
10 min read
Funders price merits, quantum, recoverability and duration. Three of those are numbers. The fourth is a judgment about the court, and it is still priced on instinct.
Practice
20 July 2026
9 min read
Most pre-hearing research hours go on gathering, not thinking. Here is what the manual workflow actually costs, and the part now worth compressing from days to minutes.
Legal Data & Ethics
19 July 2026
9 min read
Judicial analytics can only see what the record shows, and the published record is a selective slice of what courts do. Here is exactly what it leaves out.
Case Preparation
18 July 2026
9 min read
Commercial Court judges can tell within minutes whether an advocate speaks the court's language. That fluency is learnable, and most of it is written down.
Case Preparation
17 July 2026
9 min read
The most expensive mistake in litigation is rarely misreading the law. It is arguing a strong case in a register the bench was never going to respond to.
Legal Data & Ethics
16 July 2026
5 min read
The most useful legal tools don't tell you what will happen. They tell you what to prepare for — and that difference is more than semantic.
Judicial Analysis
9 July 2026
6 min read
A judge's published record is a corpus, not a personality profile. Read carefully, it reveals the reasoning patterns that matter before a hearing.
Legal Climate
2 July 2026
4 min read
Courts do not decide in a vacuum. Pending legislation, appellate direction, and public commentary quietly reshape the terrain a hearing sits on.
Product Thinking
24 June 2026
5 min read
A probability score is a bad interface for professional judgement. A reasoned confidence band, with its inputs shown, is a much better one.
Practice
18 June 2026
4 min read
The last twelve hours before a hearing are not spent reading the file again. They are spent orienting to the room — and that is where analytics earn their place.