The model never writes a citation
It only ever references judgments handed to it from retrieved context. Every field you see (the title, the citation, the court, the date) is read from the record, not generated.
Verification
You're covered
An advocate who files a document citing a case that does not exist is humiliated in open court. Lawmind is built so that cannot happen to you.
Three independent tiers
A citation is confirmed against our corpus, against independent public sources, or through the official eCourts record. Each is a separate check.
Silence means verified
Verified is the expected state, so it carries no badge. Decorating the normal case on every row is noise, and it reads as defensive about the one thing that should be confident.
What we could not confirm, we say
A citation no tier confirms is shown and marked plainly, with the path to check it yourself on eCourts. It is never quietly dropped and never dressed up as confirmed.
Law moves, so we check as you read
Whether a judgment still stands is asked live, every time it renders, and never cached. A judgment can be genuine and no longer good law. Those are different questions.
An advocate who files a case that does not exist is humiliated in open court.
That is the whole reason the verification pipeline exists, and it is why a citation Lawmind cannot confirm is shown to you rather than quietly removed. You should always know which of the two you are looking at.
Two things, not one
Genuine and still good law are different questions
A judgment can be entirely real and no longer binding. Lawmind treats those as separate checks, because in practice they have different consequences.
Does it exist?
Confirmed once, against independent sources. Verification does not expire. A judgment that was handed down was handed down.
Does it still stand?
Asked live, every single time it renders, and never cached. Whether an authority still holds can change after you save it, and the answer is not a yes or no. An authority can be set aside entirely, set aside in part, or merely doubted, and those three mean very different things in practice.
Citations that survive a challenge
Verification is the baseline, not a feature you switch on. It is the reason the rest of Lawmind is worth opening.
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