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What MyLiP is — and what it isn’t

Last updated: April 2026  ·  Reading time: about 4 minutes

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MyLiP analyses the case documents you upload, shows you what UK law says on your issue (drawn from legislation.gov.uk and BAILII), and surfaces patterns from published judgments — including how specific judges have decided similar issues before. That’s it. We are not a law firm, we are not regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, and we do not give legal advice. For advice specific to your situation, you need a solicitor or direct access barrister. For the case analysis, legal information and judge insights that sit behind that work, you have MyLiP.

What MyLiP does — three things

1. Case-data analysis

You upload the documents in your case — Form E, bank statements, correspondence, court orders, witness statements. MyLiP’s AI reads them and answers your questions about them in plain English. It can build a chronology, audit disclosure against Form E, flag contradictions between documents, extract deadlines, and draft documents based on the evidence you have uploaded. Every answer is grounded in the material you have given it — never in AI training data. If something is not in your documents, the AI says so rather than inventing a plausible-sounding answer.

2. Legal information from public UK sources

MyLiP maintains a UK Law Library sourced exclusively from legislation.gov.uk and BAILII. When you ask about s.25 MCA 1973, the Family Procedure Rules, White v White [2000] UKHL 54, Livesey v Jenkins [1985] AC 424 or any other authority in the library, MyLiP tells you what the legislation says and what the court decided. It cites the neutral citation and links to the source. It does not generate legal citations from AI training data, and it declines to answer questions that would require authorities not in the verified library.

3. Insights from published judgments

The Judge Intelligence feature reads published judgments from BAILII to surface patterns in how specific judges have approached specific issues — their approach to costs under FPR r.28.3(7), their directions on expert evidence, their attitude to non-disclosure, their tone towards litigants in person. This is information about how the system has worked, drawn entirely from what those judges have written in public. It is not a prediction of what they will decide in your case, and it is not a recommendation about how to argue your case.

What MyLiP is not

What MyLiP is

Software that analyses the documents you upload
A library of UK law from legislation.gov.uk and BAILII
Insights from published judgments — how specific judges have decided similar issues
A drafting tool for the documents you file yourself
A deadline and case-management platform

What MyLiP is not

A law firm
Regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority
A service that tells you what to do in your case
A service that predicts what the court will decide
A substitute for a solicitor or direct access barrister

When to see a solicitor or barrister instead

MyLiP is a good fit for a lot of the work in a self-represented case. It is not a good fit for everything. You should consult a qualified legal professional when:

  • You want advice on what to do in your specific case. MyLiP can show you options and considerations; only a regulated professional can advise you on which to take.
  • You need someone to represent you at a hearing, or to conduct litigation on your behalf (letters of claim sent on your behalf, applications made in your name). These are regulated legal activities.
  • Your case is unusually complex. International elements, trust structures, offshore assets, material allegations of conduct, contested expert evidence, or allegations of fraud all benefit from professional input early.
  • You are facing an urgent application — a freezing order, an occupation order, ex parte relief. These need specialist handling under time pressure.
  • You simply want reassurance from a qualified professional reviewing your approach before a major step. A direct access barrister for a one-off consultation is often a cost-effective way to get this.

Good to know: MyLiP is designed to work alongside professional legal help, not instead of it. Many subscribers use MyLiP for ongoing preparation and research, and instruct a direct access barrister or solicitor for specific pieces of work (an FDR, a Final Hearing, a particular application). That combination is usually cheaper and more effective than full traditional representation.

The guardrails built into the product

These are not things you have to remember — they are built in and cannot be turned off:

  • Every AI output ends with a disclaimer: “This analysis is based on the documents in your case vault and the MyLiP UK Law Library. All legal citations should be independently verified at legislation.gov.uk or bailii.org before relying on them in court proceedings. MyLiP is not a law firm and this is not legal advice. You remain responsible for all legal decisions.” You cannot remove this.
  • The AI cites only verified authorities. If a legal point is not in the UK Law Library, the AI says so and points you to the primary source — it does not fabricate citations.
  • The AI declines to predict outcomes. If you ask “what will the judge decide?”, the AI will present the considerations and authorities and direct you to a solicitor or direct access barrister for a view on your case.
  • You review everything before filing. Every draft is marked as a draft for your review. Nothing MyLiP produces goes to court unless you have checked it and chosen to file it.

The law that applies to MyLiP

MyLiP operates as a non-regulated self-help product. The Legal Services Act 2007 reserves six legal activities to authorised persons: rights of audience, conducting litigation, reserved instrument activities, probate activities, notarial activities, and the administration of oaths. MyLiP does none of those. Providing legal information, and analytical tools built on top of it, is not a reserved activity and does not require SRA authorisation.

The consumer-protection statutes that apply to us are the ones that apply to any UK consumer SaaS: the Consumer Rights Act 2015, the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008, the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013, and UK GDPR together with the Data Protection Act 2018. We follow the UK judiciary’s October 2025 guidance on the treatment of AI inputs in court proceedings — which includes being clear that anything you type into a public AI tool may not attract legal professional privilege. See our Privacy Policy for the data side, and our Terms of Service for the subscription side.

One more thing

The product was built by someone who self-represented in their own contested financial remedy proceedings. To survive the case, they built an AI-native knowledge system — an approach inspired by Andrej Karpathy’s work on personal AI — with every document loaded and cross-referenced, and a UK law library curated by hand from legislation.gov.uk and BAILII. The design choices in MyLiP today — the grounded-AI architecture, the verified law library, the mandatory output disclaimer, the judge insights, the 50-query Case Intelligence Library — all come directly from that experience. MyLiP is not a replacement for a lawyer; it is the research, organisation and analysis layer that usually sits behind one, productised so other LiPs don’t need the technical skills or the forty-plus hours of setup time to get the same benefit.

Questions? Email hello@mylip.ai. If your question is about your specific case and what you should do, we will tell you to speak to a solicitor or direct access barrister — that’s the product working as designed.

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