What is CourtAid?
CourtAid is an AI-powered legal research platform covering 2 million+ up-to-date judgements and legislation from Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. Instead of scrolling through long judgements, you can ask questions in plain English and get answers grounded in real court decisions and legislation — with citations you can verify.
Core capabilities
Chat mode
Ask legal research questions in natural language. CourtAid searches across millions of documents using semantic contextual search and responds with structured answers and clickable source citations. See Chat mode.
Semantic search
Browse a feed of summarised documents matched to your query. Use Smart mode for meaning-based search, or Boolean mode when you need precise keyword control. See Semantic search.
Document summaries
Every judgement and Act includes an AI-generated summary — from a quick blurb in search results to a full structured breakdown with Issue, Law, Analysis, and Conclusion. See Document summaries.
Chat PDF
Talk directly to any document. CourtAid reads the PDF, answers your questions, and automatically highlights the relevant sections. See Chat PDF.
Sources & citations
Every answer links back to the original published source. Click a citation or the Original button to jump to the primary document. See Sources & citations.
Projects
Create projects to upload your own documents and chat across both your files and CourtAid's court database. Each project is a workspace with its own AI chat, chronologies, tabular reviews, and chat history. See Projects.
Tabular View
Review and organise multiple documents at once. Run custom queries in parallel across a document set and populate results into a single table. See Tabular View.
Chronologies
Automatically build a structured timeline of events, dates, parties, and quotes from your project documents. Edit the fact matrix and export it to CSV for court submissions. See Chronologies.
Editable answers
Edit any chat response before copying or downloading — reformat, adjust wording, or restructure into a memo. See Editable answers.
PDF enrichment
Upload scanned PDFs — CourtAid automatically extracts text so documents become searchable and usable in projects, chat, and tabular reviews. See PDF enrichment.
Document comparison
Upload two versions of a contract, lease, or filing and see what changed — with a diff view, change list, and AI analysis. See Document comparison.
Filters
Narrow results by country, jurisdiction, court, document type, and legal category. See Using filters.
Supported countries
Australia
au
Federal and state courts, legislation, constitution
New Zealand
nz
NZ courts and legislation
United Kingdom
uk
UK, Scotland, and Northern Ireland
United States
us
Federal and state case law (restricted access)
United States access is currently limited to authorised users. Most users will see Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
How CourtAid is organised
Everything in CourtAid is scoped to a country. Your URL reflects this — for example, /au/chat is chat for Australia, while /uk/casenotes is search for the UK.
The main areas of the app are:
New Chat
Start an AI conversation about judgements and legislation
Search
Browse matched document summaries in a results feed (free)
Projects
Organise files, run project-scoped chat, and build chronologies
Compare
Diff two document versions with AI change analysis
Workflows
Browse tabular workflow templates
History
Return to previous conversations
See Navigate the workspace for a full sidebar tour.
Getting oriented
New to CourtAid? We recommend this order:
Create your account & free trial — sign up and understand your 5-day / 30-query trial
Navigate the workspace — learn the sidebar and main areas
Your first search — run a plain-English search
Common use cases — pick a workflow that matches your work
Chat mode — ask your first research question
Changing countries — set the right jurisdiction
Projects — bring your own documents into the workflow
Tabular View — review multiple documents in a table
Chronologies — build a timeline from your evidence
Document comparison — compare contract or filing versions
You can also take the in-app tour from the Help menu on your first visit.
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