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Every lawyer should have the best AI there is.
Not the biggest firm in the biggest country — every lawyer. That is why jurispraxis exists, and it decides what we build.
- Full-text case law, updated daily
- Every version of the statute
- Hosted in the EU
Legal research · European jurisdictions
Only what the court
actually wrote.
Ask your legal question. jurispraxis searches the full text of the case law, the statute in every version and the legislative record of your jurisdiction, and answers with verbatim quotes — citation and paragraph attached. Every quote opens the passage it came from, so you check instead of trust.
Answer · Netherlands · 2 sources
You get quotes, not paraphrase
The answer is made of verbatim passages from the sources, with citation and paragraph. If something is not in the sources, it says so — instead of making it up.
How does the court interpret an unclear contract clause?
Not on a purely linguistic reading. What matters is the meaning the parties, in the circumstances, could reasonably attribute to the clause and what they could reasonably expect from each other 1. All circumstances of the case count, weighed against the standards of reasonableness and fairness 2.
- [1] HR 13 March 1981 , ECLI:NL:HR:1981:AG4158 (Haviltex)
…kan niet worden beantwoord op grond van alleen maar een zuiver taalkundige uitleg van de bepalingen van dat contract. Voor de beantwoording van die vraag komt het immers aan op de zin die partijen in de gegeven omstandigheden over en weer redelijkerwijs aan deze bepalingen mochten toekennen en op hetgeen zij te dien aanzien redelijkerwijs van elkaar mochten verwachten.
Open the passage → - [2] HR 20 February 2004 , ECLI:NL:HR:2004:AO1427 , r.o. 4.5 (DSM/Fox)
…bij de uitleg van een schriftelijk contract telkens van beslissende betekenis zijn alle omstandigheden van het concrete geval, gewaardeerd naar hetgeen de maatstaven van redelijkheid en billijkheid meebrengen.
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The problem
A chatbot sounds certain. That is exactly the problem.
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Invented citations
A language model writes a case reference that looks convincing and does not exist. You find out in the courtroom — or the other side finds out first.
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Summary without a source
‘According to settled case law…’ with no judgment attached is an opinion. You still have to go and search yourself.
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Knowledge with an end date
A model knows what it learned up to its training date. Last month’s judgment is not in it.
How it works
Search, read, quote. In that order.
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Ask the question
In plain language, the way you would ask a colleague. Attach the pleadings or the contract if you want them read too.
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jurispraxis searches and reads
It searches the full text of the judgments, the statute and its legislative history, reads the hits and collects the passages that bear on your question. Filters by court, area of law and date when you need them.
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You get quotes, not paraphrase
The answer is made of verbatim passages from the sources, with citation and paragraph. If something is not in the sources, it says so — instead of making it up.
Jurisdictions
One engine. One jurisdiction at a time, done properly.
- Netherlands first · early access
950,000+ judgments with full text, 46,000+ regulations in every version, and the parliamentary record — all from the judiciary’s and the government’s open data.
The Dutch site → - Germany next
Rechtsprechung, Gesetze in every version and the Bundestag record, on the same engine. In preparation; write to us to hear when it opens.
- Yours tell us
Each jurisdiction gets its own corpus, its own court vocabulary and its own practitioners. Write to us which one you need.
Public sources only, read through the official interfaces of each jurisdiction’s judiciary and government. No scraping, no paid sources, no summaries written by someone else.
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Hosted in the European Union.
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Stored in the EU
Your questions, your documents and your account sit on servers in the European Union.
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GDPR, in writing
A data processing agreement and the full list of processors come with every firm subscription — available at launch, before you sign.
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No cookies on this site
This website sets no cookies, runs no tracking and stores nothing about you.
Who it is for
For anyone who has to show their sources.
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Litigators
A brief with citations that hold, in a fraction of the search time. And the other side’s line of authority in view before the hearing.
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In-house counsel
A substantiated answer for the board, with the judgment attached instead of ‘in my estimation’.
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Legal support staff
A first survey of the case law the lawyer can verify passage by passage, without searching again.
Frequently asked
What you want to know before you write to us.
Is this a chatbot?
No. A chatbot writes an answer from memory. jurispraxis searches the sources first, reads the hits and gives an answer made of verbatim quotes with their citation. If something is not in the sources, it says so.
Which sources are searched?
Per jurisdiction: the public case-law database with full text, the consolidated statute book in every version, and the official parliamentary publications. For the Netherlands that is the judiciary’s open data, the Basiswettenbestand and the Kamerstukken. All public, all traceable to the source.
Can I add my own documents?
Yes. A writ, a contract or a case file goes in with the question. The answer then quotes from your documents and from the case law, and keeps the two apart.
Which jurisdictions, and when?
The Netherlands first, in early access now. Germany next. After that, where the sign-ups point. Each jurisdiction is built with practitioners from that jurisdiction and measured on its own language before it opens.
What does it cost?
Pricing is announced at launch. Firms with early access hear it first.
Where is my data?
In the European Union. At launch you receive the data processing agreement and the list of processors.
Early access
The first firms start before the public launch.
Write to us with your firm, your role and your jurisdiction. We invite firms in small groups, one jurisdiction at a time, starting with the Netherlands; Germany follows. Firms elsewhere are welcome to write — it tells us where to go next.