Standards

How we report

People may rely on what we publish at the hardest moment of their lives. These are the rules.

One model writes, another audits

Every brief is written by an AI model from the source document alone, with no web access and no tools. A model from a different company then audits it against the same document, checking the outcome, procedural history, elements, citations, legal tests and fairness. If it does not pass, it is not published. The models that did the work are named on every brief. If a provider is unavailable, a different model from the same company may take the role, and the label says so.

Software checks the citations

Models can invent citations. So software checks that every citation we print appears in the decision itself or an official text we retrieved, and that the quoted evidence behind key claims is there word for word. A brief that fails is held.

No lawyer has reviewed the briefs

The audit is by AI and software, not a person. Treat a brief as a careful starting point and always read the full reasons, which are linked. Do not rely on a brief, or on any guide here, for a deadline or a decision in your own case.

Exact words

A new trial is not an acquittal. A pardon is not always a finding of innocence. A dismissed appeal is not a finding of anything beyond what the court decided. We use each term precisely, and we do not call anyone innocent unless a court or an official body did.

Protecting people

We name the parties as the court names them, along with judges, counsel, experts and officials. We do not name complainants, victims, children, young people, jurors or private witnesses, even when a source does, and we respect publication bans and anonymity orders. Behind every case there may be people who were harmed. A wrongful conviction does not lessen what they lost.

The wire

The wire lists headlines as other publishers wrote them, chosen by automated keyword rules. We have not analysed those items, and a headline may be incomplete or wrong. Follow the link and read the original.

Corrections

Found an error, or a detail that should not be here? Write to justice@myappeal.ca. We correct substantive errors on the brief itself and say so.

This is an information site. We cannot give legal advice by email, and writing to us does not make anyone your lawyer. Email is not confidential the way a letter to your own lawyer is, so please leave out private details.

Sources and respect for publishers

The reporters identify themselves, obey robots.txt, go slowly, and only use sources that allow automated reading. Where a jurisdiction cannot be reached that way, the desk says so rather than hiding the gap.

United States court leads come from public feeds at CourtListener, a project of Free Law Project. Free Law Project did not produce, endorse or verify anything we write. News leads may come from the GDELT Project.