Every citation, checked against the primary source. Not by an AI.
Courts now require that each authority in an AI-assisted submission be verified against the source itself, and not verified with another AI. This is the receipt that proves it was done that way.
“It is not acceptable for artificial intelligence to be used unless the product of that use is independently and thoroughly verified.”
Supreme Court of Victoria, August 2025
Sample · fictitious matter · 9000-series numbers do not exist
Certificate
Citation Verification
Document
Outline of submissions · 14 pp · 12 citations
Checked
2026-09-04 14:02 AEST · each citation routed by its court code to that jurisdiction’s own register
Method
Deterministic · model calls: 0
Verdict
FAIL
Four authorities could not be found in their own jurisdiction’s register. Eight verified to the paragraph.
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As cited
Exists
Quotation
Pinpoint
Status
High Court of Australia · 4 citations · register: High Court judgments, AustLII
1
[2021] HCA 923 at [64]
Found
Verbatim
[64]
Verified
2
[2018] HCA 904 at [12]
Found
Verbatim
[12]
Verified
3
[2024] HCA 951
Not found
—
—
No such case
4
[2015] HCA 935 at [21]
Found
Verbatim
[21]
Verified
Federal Court of Australia · 5 citations · register: Federal Court judgments, AustLII
5
[2019] FCAFC 918 at [41]
Found
Verbatim
[41]
Verified
6
[2023] FCA 9187
Not found
—
—
No such case
7
[2017] FCA 9902 at [88]
Found
Verbatim
[88]
Verified
8
[2022] FCA 9076 at [5]
Found
Verbatim
[5]
Verified
9
[2021] FCAFC 940
Not found
—
—
No such case
New South Wales · 3 citations · register: NSW Caselaw, AustLII
10
[2020] NSWSC 9402 at [17]
Found
Verbatim
[17]
Verified
11
[2022] NSWCA 911
Not found
—
—
No such case
12
[2016] NSWSC 9550 at [33]
Found
Verbatim
[33]
Verified
left for the practitioner: whether each authority supports the proposition cited
sha256 7eeb0b8daae3d3966d2d74fe04105728d…
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Primary source✓No AI
01 · privacy by construction
Your submission never leaves your machine.
Citations are parsed in your browser. Only the citation strings go out, to fetch the judgment. The text is matched here, on your side of the screen.
02 · deterministic, logged
Four checks, in the right jurisdiction. Zero generative models.
The court code in a citation says which register to ask: High Court, Federal Court, each State and Territory. Existence, citation, verbatim quotation, pinpoint paragraph, each a comparison, not an opinion. The certificate records that no model was invoked.
03 · recomputable
A one-page certificate the court can recompute.
Append it to the brief. Anyone with the hash can rerun the same checks and get the same answer, without installing anything.
Shield, and sword.
It works on the other side’s submissions exactly as it works on yours. Drop in their outline of argument. Every authority they rely on is checked the same four ways, in the same registers, and the lights show at once.
An authority that does not exist is a matter for the court, and the duty to the court runs both ways. A certificate you can hand up, that the judge can recompute, is the cleanest way to raise it: not your word against theirs, a page anyone can check.
the lights are free · the certificate is one certificate · the other side may verify yours the same way
The court has already said what happens without it.
Since 2024, Australian courts have referred practitioners to their regulators, ordered personal costs, and in one instance removed a solicitor’s right to practise as a principal, for authorities that did not exist.
The Federal Court’s practice note of 16 April 2026 requires verification against a primary source, and says it may not be done with another AI tool.
Dayal [2024] FedCFamC2F 1166Referred · principal status lost
Valu v Minister for Immigration (No 2) [2025] FedCFamC2G 95Referred
Murray obo Wamba Wemba v Victoria [2025] FCA 731Personal costs
JNE24 v Minister for Immigration [2025] FedCFamC2G 1314Referred · costs
Mertz & Mertz (No 3) [2025] FedCFamC1AThree practitioners referred
Why this exists
The authority of the law rests on judges deciding by authorities that exist. A fabricated case in a court file misleads the court and disturbs the proper hearing of a matter. That cannot be allowed.
The practitioner who never meant it is still the one who answers for it: in costs, in reputation, sometimes in the right to practise. This exists so that the first does not happen, and the second need not.
And so that the profession can use these tools without fear, and keep pace.
How it verifies, and what it will never claim.
A statement of method, in the form a court would expect from an expert: what was done, from which source, and where the judgment was left to a person.
Parse.Every citation and quotation is located by grammar, not guessed. The court code names the jurisdiction.
Fetch.The judgment is retrieved from that jurisdiction’s own register, under its terms of use. The register, address and time are written on the certificate.
Compare.Existence, citation, verbatim quotation, pinpoint paragraph. Four comparisons. No model is asked for an opinion at any step.
Certify.One page, hashed. Anyone may repeat steps I to III and obtain the same page. If they cannot, the certificate is wrong, and it says so.
Authorities that Australian courts have already found to be fabricated are run as a standing test deck. Every one must come up red before a release ships, and the results are published with their hashes.
What it leaves to you, in writing.
Whether an authority supports the proposition. Whether it is still good law. Whether a reported citation with no neutral form is the case you meant. Each is marked on the certificate as left to the practitioner, never silently passed.
Patent applied for.
The verification method is the subject of an Australian provisional patent application. The certificate format itself is open, so that a court or an opponent can recompute it without a licence.
Australian provisional patent application no. 2026907583 · filed 6 September 2026
Priced so that no one has to think about it.
Walk in · no account
Scan, pay, verify.
A$4.90per certificate
The lights are free. See which citations fail before you pay a cent.
Pay by card from the code, or ten for A$39. Tax invoice by email.
Bill it to the matter as a disbursement, like a search fee.
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Member · firm or counsel
Register your firm. Ten certificates on us.
A$2.90per certificate after ten
First ten free. One firm, one ABN, one trial.
Invoiced monthly. Certificates carry your firm’s name.
Sign in by a code sent to your firm email. No password to keep.
Practice · chambers and firms
Fifty a month, for the whole floor.
A$49per month
Fifty certificates included, then A$1.90 each.
Every practitioner on one account. White-label certificate.
Later: verification inside your document system.
Prices in Australian dollars, GST excluded. If no certificate can be issued, you are not charged. Recomputing any certificate, yours or your opponent’s, is always free.
Membership is by firm, and takes a minute.
Your ABN identifies the firm; your firm email identifies you. We send a code, you sign in. There is no password to keep, and nothing of your documents is ever held here.
Counsel register in their own name with their own ABN. The ten free certificates belong to the firm, not the person, so a trial is used once.
Walk in with a submission.
Drop it here. The lights show at once; the certificate is issued when you pay, or, for members, against your ten.
Drop a .docx or paste your submission
It stays in this browser. Only citation strings are looked up.