Acceptable Use Policy

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") sets out the rules governing access to and use of the Probatur platform, website, and associated services (collectively, "the Service") operated by George Johnson trading as Probatur ("Probatur", "we", "us").

By accessing or using the Service — including submitting a waitlist registration, creating an account, or generating any briefing — you agree to comply with this AUP in full. This AUP forms part of, and should be read alongside, our Privacy Policy and any applicable subscription terms.

If you are accessing the Service on behalf of a law firm or other organisation, you confirm that you have authority to bind that organisation to this AUP, and that all users within that organisation will comply with it.

Access to the Probatur platform is restricted to verified legal professionals practising in England and Wales. Specifically, you may use the Service only if you are:

• a solicitor currently authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and holding a valid practising certificate;
• a barrister currently authorised and regulated by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) and holding a valid practising certificate;
• a Chartered Legal Executive authorised by CILEx Regulation;
• a qualified legal professional employed within an in-house legal team, litigation finance firm, or equivalent regulated environment; or
• a registered legal trainee or pupil barrister accessing the Service under the direct supervision of a qualified professional who holds responsibility for its use.

By registering, you represent and warrant that you fall within one of the categories above. We reserve the right to verify your credentials at any time and to suspend or terminate access if we are unable to confirm your status.

Before setting out what you may and may not do with the Service, it is essential that all users understand the legal character of Probatur outputs.

Probatur's outcome probability estimates are derived from historical case data and are subject to the following inherent limitations:

• They cannot account for case-specific facts, witness credibility, oral argument quality, or judicial discretion on the day.
• Historical judicial data may reflect historical bias; profiles built on fewer than 20 published decisions are flagged as low-confidence and should be treated with particular caution.
• The law changes. No output guarantees that cited precedents remain good law at the time of your hearing — you must verify the current status of all authorities independently.
• Cultural sentiment and parliamentary signals are indicative environmental factors, not legal determinants.

Subject to your compliance with this AUP and any applicable subscription terms, you may use the Service for the following purposes:

• Generating pre-hearing briefings to assist your preparation for court proceedings in England and Wales.
• Reviewing judge profiles and statistical tendency data as one input among many in your preparation process.
• Conducting AI-assisted case law research to identify potentially relevant precedents for independent verification.
• Assessing legal climate signals as contextual background for cases with public law, regulatory, or politically sensitive dimensions.
• Generating briefings on behalf of clients as part of your professional legal work, provided you retain full responsibility for all advice given to those clients.
• Internal training and professional development within your firm or chambers, provided all users are verified legal professionals.

You must not use the Service in any of the following ways. Breach of this section may result in immediate suspension or termination of your account, reporting to the relevant regulatory authority, and legal action where appropriate.

5.1 Professional conduct

• Presenting any Probatur output directly to a court, tribunal, or opposing party as an independent legal authority or expert analysis without clearly identifying it as AI-generated material.
• Relying on any Probatur output as a substitute for your own independent legal research and professional judgment in advising clients or conducting proceedings.
• Using the Service in any manner that would breach the SRA Code of Conduct 2019, the BSB Handbook, or the professional obligations of any other regulator to which you are subject.
• Using outputs to make representations about the likely behaviour of a named judge to that judge, their clerk, or any court officer.

5.2 Data inputs

• Entering into the platform any personal data that is not necessary for the preparation query — in particular, names, addresses, or identifiers of witnesses, victims, children, or protected individuals in ongoing proceedings.
• Entering special category personal data (health data, biometric data, data revealing racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, political opinions, sexual orientation, or trade union membership) unless strictly unavoidable for your query, in which case you must apply the minimum data necessary principle.
• Entering data relating to criminal convictions or offences beyond what is required to describe the legal issues at stake.
• Inputting any confidential client information in a manner that would breach your duties of confidentiality under applicable professional rules, unless you have assessed and are satisfied that doing so is compliant with those obligations.
• Deliberately entering false, misleading, or fabricated case information to test or manipulate the platform's outputs.

5.3 System integrity

• Attempting to circumvent, disable, or interfere with any security, authentication, or access control feature of the Service.
• Using automated scripts, bots, crawlers, or scraping tools to access, extract, or harvest data from the platform without our prior written consent.
• Reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling, or otherwise attempting to derive the source code, model architecture, or underlying data structures of the Service.
• Probing, scanning, or testing the vulnerability of any system or network connected to the Service.
• Introducing malicious code, viruses, trojans, or any other harmful software.
• Attempting to access accounts, data, or systems belonging to other users.

5.4 Unauthorised access and sharing

• Sharing your account credentials with any other person, whether within or outside your organisation.
• Allowing any person who does not meet the eligibility criteria in Section 2 to access the Service through your account.
• Reselling, sublicensing, or otherwise making the Service available to third parties outside your organisation without our prior written agreement.
• Using a single-user subscription to provide access to multiple users — each user within an organisation requires their own authorised seat under a firm subscription.

5.5 Misrepresentation and harm

• Using outputs from the Service to make any public statement, publish any article, or create any marketing material that misrepresents the capabilities, accuracy, or nature of the platform.
• Using the Service for any purpose that is unlawful under the laws of England and Wales.
• Using outputs to intimidate, harass, or make unjustified allegations against any judge, court officer, opposing party, or witness.
• Using the platform in connection with proceedings outside England and Wales without first satisfying yourself that doing so complies with applicable local professional conduct rules.

Nothing in the Service, and no use of it, displaces your professional obligations as a regulated legal practitioner. In particular:

• Competence. You are responsible for ensuring that your use of Probatur forms part of a competent approach to preparation. You must not reduce the standard of your own research or analysis by reason of reliance on outputs from the platform.
• Supervision. Where the Service is used by trainees, paralegals, or other supervised individuals under your oversight, you are responsible for their use and for reviewing all outputs before they inform any advice or court submission.
• Candour. Your duty of candour to courts and tribunals is absolute. You must not cite any Probatur-suggested authority without independently verifying that it exists, accurately reflects the law, and has not been reversed, overruled, or significantly distinguished.
• Confidentiality. You must assess whether inputting any case information to the Service is consistent with your duty of confidentiality to your client. Where in doubt, anonymise the input or seek client consent.
• Independence. Statistical tendency data about a judge does not constitute grounds for an application to recuse or for any form of complaint about judicial conduct. Such data reflects pattern analysis of published decisions, not evidence of bias or impropriety.

All rights in the Probatur platform — including the software, database, judge profiling methodology, UI design, brand, and documentation — are owned by or licensed to George Johnson trading as Probatur. Nothing in these terms transfers any intellectual property rights to you.

The briefings and outputs generated for you through the Service are provided for your personal professional use. You may use, store, and share outputs within your firm or chambers for legitimate preparation purposes. You may not:

• reproduce or publish Probatur outputs commercially or as a standalone product;
• create derivative works or datasets derived from platform outputs for the purpose of training any competing AI or legal analytics system;
• remove, obscure, or modify any disclaimer, watermark, or attribution applied by the platform to its outputs.

The underlying public data processed by Probatur — BAILII judgments, Hansard records, legislation, and court lists — remains subject to Crown copyright and its own open licence conditions where applicable.

We monitor use of the Service for compliance with this AUP. Where we reasonably believe a breach has occurred or is occurring, we may take any of the following steps at our sole discretion:

Termination under this section does not entitle you to a refund of any subscription fees paid for the current billing period.

If you become aware of any use of the Service that you believe breaches this AUP — including misuse by another user, a security vulnerability, or any output that appears materially inaccurate or potentially harmful — please report it to us promptly at hello@probatur.co.uk.

We treat all reports in confidence and will acknowledge receipt within two business days.

The Service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Probatur makes no warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

We do not warrant that:

• the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free from security vulnerabilities;
• any output will be accurate, complete, current, or suitable for any specific purpose;
• any cited case law will be good law at the time of your hearing;
• any judge profile will reflect the future conduct of that judge in any specific case.

Nothing in this section limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded under English law.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Probatur's total aggregate liability to you in connection with the Service — whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise — shall not exceed the total subscription fees paid by you in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

In no event shall Probatur be liable for any indirect, consequential, special, incidental, or punitive loss or damage, including loss of profits, loss of business, loss of opportunity, or damage to reputation, arising from your use of or reliance on the Service.

In particular, and without limitation, Probatur accepts no liability for any adverse outcome in legal proceedings arising from a user's reliance on any briefing, judge profile, precedent suggestion, or probability estimate generated by the platform.

We may update this AUP from time to time to reflect changes in the Service, applicable law, or regulatory guidance from the SRA, BSB, or ICO. Where changes are material, we will notify registered users by email at least 14 days before the changes take effect. The "Last updated" date at the top of this document will always reflect the current version.

Continued use of the Service after the effective date of any updated AUP constitutes your acceptance of those changes. If you do not accept the revised AUP, you must cease using the Service and may terminate your subscription in accordance with the applicable subscription terms.

This AUP and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any such dispute or claim.

All queries relating to this Acceptable Use Policy should be directed to:

George Johnson
Probatur
hello@probatur.co.uk
probatur.co.uk