How it works
Cite, or refuse.
The reason lawyers distrust AI is hallucination: invented cases, fabricated provisions, confident wrong answers. Alicia’s safeguard is structural. It answers using only passages retrieved from a fixed corpus of Jersey law, copies each passage’s exact citation, quotes verbatim where wording matters — and where the corpus does not support an answer, it declines: “The Law is silent on this point.”
No statement without a source. Citation discipline is the core anti-hallucination safeguard, not a feature bolted on afterwards.
What Alicia does
From a question to a first draft.
Research.
What it does
Cited question-and-answer in the Assistant. Ask a question of Jersey law; Alicia finds the relevant provisions and answers from them, leading with the strongest source and naming its legal weight.
What it won’t do
It will not speculate beyond the corpus, and it will not paper over a gap — an uncovered question gets a refusal, not a guess.
Review.
What it does
Upload or paste a document — an agreement, a board paper, a set of facts. Alicia surfaces the provisions that bear on it, cites each one, and flags the issues it finds.
What it won’t do
It never delivers a verdict. Review identifies and cites; the judgement is the lawyer's.
Draft.
What it does
A first draft grounded in the Law — clauses, advice notes, summaries — with the supporting provisions cited as it goes.
What it won’t do
The draft is a starting point, not an opinion. The lawyer edits it, signs it, and owns it.
The engine
Built along the law’s own structure.
Most AI tools split documents into arbitrary blocks of text. Alicia divides the law along its own structural units — because the law already tells you where its meaning lives.
One Article, one passage.
Each Article of a Law is kept whole. Defined terms are split out individually, Schedules are divided per paragraph, and Codes and guidance per numbered section. Nothing is cut mid-provision.
Hybrid search.
Two searches run on every question: a semantic search that understands meaning, and a keyword search that respects exact statutory wording. Their results are merged, so the right provision surfaces however the question is phrased.
Weighted by authority.
The answer leads with the strongest source and names its weight — binding law before a Code, a Code before guidance. Each statement carries the exact citation of the passage behind it.
Matters
The work, organised.
A matter holds the work the way the firm does — its number, client and partner, with the chats, reviews and drafts that belong to it in one place. Matters are what a handover is built from, and what a connected mailbox’s emails attach to — so the context follows the work, not the tool.
The corpus
313 documents.
Jersey financial-services law in breadth: the financial-services regime, financial crime / AML / sanctions, the JFSC guidance layer (Codes of Practice and the AML/CFT Handbook), the corporate, trust, foundation and partnership vehicle set, banking, insolvency, security interests, insurance, and economic-substance tax.
The corpus is the consolidated text current to 11 December 2024. It is the consolidated text, not legal advice — verify against jerseylaw.je.
How the data is handled →- 01binding law
- 02subordinate legislation
- 03statutory requirement
- 04mandatory code
- 05regulatory guidance
Research without guessing. Drafting without drifting.
See the engine on your own questions.
Contact Us