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 until you ask us to delete it. If you have an account, email info@truecite.com.au 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.com.au with the citation you checked and the approximate date and time of the check.
- Search, only when needed. When an official lookup has no record, 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 date.
| Outcome | What it means |
|---|---|
| Verified | The citation is confirmed against a record from an official or dated source, named with its date. |
| Conflict | The citation and the case name do not belong together. The correct citation is shown so that you can fix it. |
| 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: Australia and the United Kingdom, plus other common-law jurisdictions on a best-effort basis. To connect TrueCite to your own systems, see the developer page.
What the courts require
Australian courts, including the Federal Court (Practice Note GPN-AI) and the Supreme Court of New South Wales (SC Gen 23), expect practitioners to confirm that the authorities they cite exist, and not to rely on a generative AI tool alone to do it. 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 licences
Sources: High Court of Australia; Federal Court of Australia; NSW Caselaw; Supreme Court of Victoria; Isaacus / Open Australian Legal Corpus, CC BY 4.0. Metadata is normalised for citation lookup. These are unofficial source records, and no court affiliation or endorsement is implied.
High Court of Australia material is reproduced under the Court's Terms of Use, on condition that it is reproduced accurately, used respectfully and not in a misleading context, attributed to the High Court of Australia, and identified as a copy of the version available at the URL of the original document.
United Kingdom results: Contains information licensed under the Open Justice - Licence v2.0. Licence
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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