uk-citation-verification

When to Use

• A draft cites UK cases and needs a pre-filing citation audit.
• AI-generated legal text may contain hallucinated authorities.
• A user wants to verify neutral citations, party names, report citations, or quoted passages.
• A cited proposition needs to be tied back to the authority actually retrieved.

This skill verifies existence and citation integrity. It does not decide the merits of the case.

For Scotland, Northern Ireland, tribunal-specific, or devolved materials, identify the applicable official source before treating the citation as verified.

Audience and Work Shape

Audience: UK litigators, trainees, paralegals, and legal researchers checking draft legal text before lawyer review or filing.

Work shape: pattern-matched verification. The skill resolves and classifies citations; it does not decide whether the authority supports a proposition.