Every citation, checked against the law as published.
Ask a question of federal or provincial corporate law and the answer comes back in plain prose with numbered citations. Each one points to a source the answer actually read, and a citation with nothing behind it is taken out before you see the answer.
In pilot. Running at a pilot firm, where the research library is loaded. Not yet on every account.
How it works. The same three steps behind every answer.
Ask in plain words
Put the question the way you would put it to a colleague. Attach a matter or its documents, and the answer reads those too.
Each citation is matched to what was read
Every numbered citation has to point to a source the answer opened. One with no source behind it is removed from the text, not shown as a citation.
The statute's words are compared
A federal passage is compared with Justice Laws and an Ontario one with e-Laws, word for word, and the card says what the comparison found.
Each card says what it is. Never a confidence score.
Click a citation and its card opens beside the answer. The card names the provision, shows the passage, and says in plain words what that passage is and whether it was compared with the published text.
Every compared fragment was found word for word in the cited section. The card then shows that subsection as the publisher prints it. Ontario passages read “Checked against e-Laws”.
The answer's quotation does not match the published words. The card says which words differ, so you can read the section yourself.
The words are in the Act, but not in the section the answer cited. Where it can tell, the card names the section they are in.
A quotation found nowhere in the Act may come from another instrument. The card asks a person to check it rather than guess.
The passage comes from our library's summary of the Act, not from the Act. It is labelled that way and never presented as the law's own words.
Hard questions get a second reading. Before anything is written up.
When a question needs more than an answer, the work is checked by a separate pass before you read it.
You approve a short brief first. The research runs on that brief, then a verification pass reopens each source and rules on every finding. A sentence resting on a finding that failed is taken out, and the paper says so; a partly supported one is qualified.
One pass builds the argument as issue, rule, application and conclusion. A separate reviewer attacks it and sets out the defences. You read both and decide whether it is revised.
A paper's references are numbered after the check, from what survived it, in order of first appearance. Numbers from the draft are never kept.
What's in place. And what is still in pilot.
Citations point only to what was readIn place
Every numbered citation in an answer must match a source that answer retrieved. A citation with no source behind it is removed from the text before the answer is shown.
One list of sources per answerIn place
The citations in the prose, in a table and in the Sources list are numbered from one list, by first appearance, so a number means the same source everywhere in the answer.
Statute passages compared word for wordIn place
Federal passages are compared with Justice Laws and Ontario's with e-Laws. The text is fetched from the publisher directly and compared by a fixed text match, not by a judgment call.
Labels that say what a source isIn place
Only a completed comparison earns “Checked against” the publisher. Everything else says what it is: a differing quote, a wrong section, a summary, a government page, a secondary web page or a firm document.
The research libraryIn pilot
Our summaries of the corporate statutes listed below, which answers use to find the right provision. Loaded at the pilot firm; not yet on every account.
Research papers with a verification passIn pilot
A brief a person approves, research on that brief, a pass that reopens every source, and a paper that drops what failed and says so.
A second reading of an argumentIn pilot
A separate reviewer attacks the argument and sets out the defences; you decide whether it is revised.
What the library covers. Corporate law, named Act by Act.
The library holds our summaries of these Acts, so an answer can find the right provision. The law's own words come from the publisher at the time of the check.
Federal
The Canada Business Corporations Act and its regulations, the Investment Canada Act, and the requirements for incorporating federally.
Ontario
The Business Corporations Act, the Corporations Information Act, articles of incorporation, and extra-provincial registration.
British Columbia and Alberta
Each province's Business Corporations Act, with its rules on directors.
Every other province and territory
The rules on who can be a director and where directors must reside: Quebec, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
What the firm controls.
Whether a paper is researched
A research paper starts only after a person at the firm approves its brief.
What an answer reads
The library, the published law, and the matter or documents you attach. For a research paper, a search across all of the firm's files runs only when the person asking approves it for that paper.
Whether an argument changes
After the second reading, you decide whether the argument is revised and what feedback it takes.
What is relied on
An answer is a starting point. A lawyer reads the cited section before anyone relies on it.
Questions
- Which law does it cover?
- Corporate law: the federal Business Corporations Act and its regulations, the Investment Canada Act, Ontario's Business Corporations Act and Corporations Information Act, the Business Corporations Acts of British Columbia and Alberta, and the rules on directors in every other province and territory. If your practice needs another area, tell us.
- What happens when a citation can't be verified?
- It is not presented as verified. A citation with no source behind it is removed from the answer. A source that was read but could not be compared, such as our library summary or a page that did not respond, says exactly that on its card.
- Does it check case law?
- The word-for-word comparison covers federal statutes and regulations on Justice Laws and Ontario's on e-Laws. A case or other web source an answer cites is labelled for what it is and is not marked as checked. In a research paper, the verification pass reopens every source, cases included, before the paper is written.
- Can it read our own documents?
- Yes, the ones you attach to a question, and a passage cited from them is labelled as a firm document. For a research paper, a search across all of the firm's files runs only when the person asking approves it for that paper.
- Is this legal advice?
- No. It is research for a lawyer to read. The lawyer opens the cited section, reads it, and decides; nothing Misolla writes is legal advice.
- Can we use it now?
- It runs at a pilot firm today. A pilot starts with one piece of work on your own matters, from one lawyer to the whole firm. Book a call and we will talk it through.
Research answers, papers and arguments are not legal advice. A lawyer reads the cited law and reviews any output before it is used. The diagram uses a synthetic example.
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