Statement of method
TrueCite checks the citations in your work against official sources, and keeps your clients' confidential information out of it. This page says what that means for you.
Safe: we do not take your confidential information
- Your document stays in your browser. Documents are read on your own device. Only the citations and case names you review and submit are sent to us, never the document.
- No AI model, no training. TrueCite runs no AI model, sends nothing to AI model providers, and uses nothing you send to train anything.
- Request contents are not logged. Our code does not write citations, case names or other request contents to logs.
- Stored until you ask us to delete it. A record of each check is kept on our servers in Singapore, outside the United Kingdom, until you ask us to delete it. If you have an account, email info@truecite.uk from your account email address. Checks run on the Try page without an account are not linked to any account; to ask us to delete one, email info@truecite.uk with the citation you checked and the approximate date and time of the check.
- Search, only when needed. When the official lookup has no record, one word of any case name you gave, with the court, is sent to Find Case Law to look the judgment up by name, and the citation and any case name you gave may be sent to a search provider to find candidate records. Nothing else from your document goes with it.
The full detail, including who else sees anything, is on the data security page.
Effective: checked live, confirmed only against a record
Every citation is checked live against official, dated sources at the moment you submit it, so you can correct it before you file. Fixed rules decide each result. No language model is involved, and nothing is guessed. Each result names its source and the time it was checked.
| Outcome | What it means |
|---|---|
| Verified | The citation is confirmed against the official record, named with the time it was checked. |
| Conflict | The citation and the case name do not belong together. Either the citation is held for a judgment under a different name, so check the name against the record at Find Case Law; or the citation is not held, but your case name matches exactly one judgment Find Case Law holds in the same court, and the citation held for that judgment is shown as the correct citation. If your case name matches more than one judgment, the result is unresolved and lists the possible citations for you to choose from. |
| Unresolved | We could not confirm the citation, and the result says why. It is not a finding that the judgment does not exist; confirm it at its source. |
Nothing is confirmed without a record. Coverage: the United Kingdom and Australia, plus other common-law jurisdictions on a best-effort basis; Scotland and Northern Ireland are not covered. To connect TrueCite to your own systems, see the developer page.
What the courts require
In Ayinde v London Borough of Haringey [2025] EWHC 1383 (Admin), the Divisional Court confirmed that lawyers who use AI remain responsible for checking their research against authoritative sources, and named the National Archives database of court judgments as one of them. Practitioners remain responsible for every citation they put before a court. TrueCite supports that duty with an independent, dated record of each check.
TrueCite does not read the authority for you. Whether it supports the proposition, and whether it is still good law, remains for the practitioner.
Attribution and licence
Contains information licensed under the Open Justice - Licence v2.0. Every United Kingdom finding carries this attribution and a link to the Open Justice - Licence v2.0. The licence is the National Archives'; the findings are ours.
Patent and contact
The verification method is the subject of Australian provisional patent application no. 2026907583, filed 6 September 2026. A provisional application is not a granted patent.
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