Editorial Standards and Source Policy

For legal propositions we prefer current legislation, procedural rules, courts, regulators and government bodies. We use secondary sources for orientation, not as a substitute where a suitable primary or official source exists.

Pages in the current protected-content programme show their jurisdiction, date checked, next review date, review status and the official sources supporting material propositions. “Official-source checked” does not mean “reviewed by a solicitor”.

AI may assist drafting, structure and checking. It cannot approve a legal proposition. Material facts are checked against the linked source before the page receives an official-source status. Pages awaiting qualified review must not imply that a UK solicitor approved them.

High-risk or fast-changing propositions are reviewed when an official change is identified and otherwise on their scheduled date. A new checked date is used only after a substantive source check; it is not changed merely to make a page look fresh.