The AI workspace for your case law

The AI workspace for your case law

Law students accumulate cases across semesters: judgments as PDFs, case briefs in Word documents, notes from tutorials, textbook extracts. Each case contains arguments, ratios, obiter dicta, and dissents that might be relevant to an essay, a problem question, or a moot months later. But the cases are filed by module or week, not by legal concept, so finding "every case where the court considered remoteness of damage" means opening cases one at a time and reading until you recognise the relevant passage.

Case law databases exist, but your personal collection of assigned cases, annotated with your own notes and your professor's emphasis, is more valuable for your coursework than a raw database. Fabric makes that personal collection searchable by legal concept, ratio, and principle.

Search by legal concept, not filename

AI search reads inside every case PDF, brief, and note and searches by legal concept. "Cases where the court applied the neighbour principle" finds them across your full library. "The ratio in Donoghue v Stevenson" finds the specific passage. "Every case involving consideration and promissory estoppel" pulls every relevant judgment regardless of which module or folder it's in.

The search works by meaning. "Duty of care in negligent misstatement" finds the relevant cases even when the judgments use different terminology. A case studied in contract law is findable when the same principle arises in tort.

Compare and trace across your case library

The AI assistant treats your case collection as a queryable knowledge base. Ask it to compare the reasoning in two judgments. Ask it to trace how a doctrine has been applied across the cases in your library. Ask it to find every case where a specific judge gave the leading opinion. Ask it to identify the key authorities on a topic from your assigned reading.

For essay writing and problem questions, ask the AI to find supporting authorities for your argument from your own collection. Every answer cites the specific judgment and passage.

Annotate with your analysis

Annotations let you mark up every case: the ratio, the obiter, the dissent, the critical commentary. Note the connection to another case. Flag the weakness in the reasoning. Mark the passage you want to cite. Your annotations are searchable across your full library, so "every case where I flagged a weak dissent" or "my notes about consideration" finds them all.

Read cases in the reader for a focused experience. Your highlights and marginal notes stay attached and searchable.

Write alongside your authorities

Draft essays and problem questions in notes and docs with your case library searchable alongside. When you need to verify a ratio, find a supporting authority, or check what a dissent argued, search without leaving the draft. The canvas lets you map an argument visually: arrange cases, statutes, and commentary to see the structure before you write.

Connected to your course materials

Your case library lives alongside lecture transcripts, tutorial notes, and textbook chapters. The case is searchable in the same library as the lecture where your professor discussed it and your notes about both. The AI tutor can explain a ratio using your lecturer's framing because it has access to both.

Organised by area of law, not just by module

Smart organization tags cases by legal area, principle, and court. Contract cases group together even if they were assigned in different modules. Authorities from the same court cluster. You build a personal case library organised by what the law is about, not by which week it was assigned.

Who uses Fabric for case law

Law students building personal case libraries across their degree. Students preparing for moots and exams. Lawyers and law firms managing professional case collections. Anyone conducting legal research or writing a dissertation with a legal component.

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FAQs

Can I search cases by legal concept?

Yes. AI search reads inside every judgment and searches by concept, ratio, principle, or doctrine.

Can the AI compare reasoning across cases?

Yes. The AI assistant compares judgments, traces doctrines, and identifies authorities from your collection.

Can I annotate the ratio and obiter?

Yes. Annotations let you mark up any case with searchable notes.

Can I find cases across different modules?

Yes. Search works across your full library regardless of how cases are filed.

Can I write essays alongside my case library?

Yes. Draft in notes and docs with every case searchable alongside.

Can I search cases from the same court?

Yes. Smart organization tags by court, area of law, and principle.

Can the AI quiz me on cases?

Yes. Ask the AI tutor to test you on ratios, authorities, or legal principles from your assigned cases.

Is my data private?

Yes. Fabric uses AES-256 encryption and is CASA Tier 2 compliant. Your data is never used to train AI models.