Frequently asked questions.

Legalise is a document drafting and legal research platform built for advocates practising before the Islamabad High Court and the ICT subordinate courts. It produces court-formatted instruments (petitions, applications, affidavits, notices, agreements, plaints) from a single authenticated session, with the headers, clause language, and signature blocks expected by the Islamabad bar.

The drafting workflow is paired with a research and reference layer: a national Pakistan case-law database of 39,000+ written judgments across eight courts (the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, Sindh, and Balochistan High Courts, and the Federal Shariat and Federal Constitutional Courts), all filterable by court, searchable Pakistani statutes, the IHC Practice Rules 2025, a legal definitions glossary, and jurisdiction-specific reference tools covering stamp duty, court fees, limitation, and police jurisdiction.

Practising advocates whose primary forum is the Islamabad High Court or the ICT District Courts. The output formatting, citation conventions, and reference data are pinned to ICT practice.

Members from other jurisdictions may use the platform, but the templates and reference tools are not adapted to provincial rules of court and procedural variations between High Courts.

No. Legalise is a drafting and research instrument operated by the member advocate. It does not provide legal advice, does not represent clients, and does not create an advocate-client relationship between Legalise and the member’s clients.

Filing strategy, advisability, choice of forum, and the final form of every document remain the professional responsibility of the member.

The current catalogue spans the core drafting lanes used in ICT practice: writ petitions, civil suits and plaints, criminal applications, contracts and deeds, notices and replies, affidavits and declarations, and miscellaneous court applications.

Each template carries the IHC-format header, the procedural clauses ordinarily expected in that document class, and a signature block linked to the member’s verified advocate profile. The catalogue is revised as procedural rules and template usage patterns change.

An instrument is one output generated through Legalise. A petition, application, affidavit, notice, agreement, plaint, compiled case briefing, Matter Reviewer report, or Adverse Reviewer report each counts as a single instrument against the member’s allowance.

Editing a saved document, downloading it again, attaching it to a Desk case file, or sharing it does not consume an instrument. Only the act of generation is counted.

Each 30-day billing cycle inside the four-month retainer opens with the standard 120-instrument allowance. At the close of a cycle, any unused instruments are halved and added to the next cycle’s allowance.

There is no ceiling on the carried balance inside an active contract, so a member who underuses one cycle accumulates a working surplus into the next.

If renewal is completed within the seven-day grace period from contract end, up to 100 unused instruments carry into the next retainer. Balances below 100 carry in full. Balances above 100 are capped at 100 and the surplus lapses.

If renewal is not completed inside the grace window, the entire balance is forfeited and re-subscription begins on a fresh 120-instrument first cycle.

No. The four-month retainer is renewed by deliberate member action inside the seven-day grace window. There is no auto-debit, no recurring card mandate, and no silent renewal.

A member who chooses not to renew simply lets the contract close at the end of its term.

The trial runs for 20 days from the member’s first verified sign-in, capped at 10 generated instruments, whichever is reached first. Trial members receive introductory access to the case-law database, statutes, practice rules, glossary, and reference calculators; full ongoing access is reserved for paid members.

Trial activation requires email verification but no payment instrument. Unused trial instruments do not carry over to the paid retainer.

Subscribing during the trial converts the account to the four-month retainer immediately. The 10-instrument trial cap is replaced with the full 120-instrument cycle allowance from the moment of activation, and the four-month contract clock begins at conversion.

Trial members are not penalised for converting early.

Refund requests are considered only within the first month of the four-month contract, and only where fewer than one third of the cycle’s allowance, i.e. less than 40 of 120 instruments, has been generated.

Refunds are one-time per member and do not apply on resubscription. Decisions are at the discretion of the Legalise registrar.

A member may decline renewal at any time. The retainer continues to run for its full four-month term once subscribed and is not pro-rated outside the refund window above.

Because there is no auto-renewal, the practical mechanism for cancellation is simply allowing the seven-day grace window at contract end to lapse without renewing.

Direct transfer from a verified EasyPaisa, SadaPay, or NayaPay account to the Legalise wallet. The wallet number is displayed on the payment page after sign-in and is also registered as a Raast ID, so a transfer can be sent through Raast from any bank app.

Activation is verified by the Legalise registrar once the incoming transfer settles. Typical time to activation is approximately five minutes during working hours.

The stated price is inclusive of applicable charges. A tax invoice is issued to the registered member on request and carries the member number, contract dates, and the instrument allowance for the billing period.

The invoice is in a form suitable for chamber expense records.

Desk is the member’s case workspace inside Legalise. Each generated instrument can be filed to a Desk case alongside notes, attachments, and references to statutes or judgments.

The four-month retainer includes 50 case files at Desk. Editing a saved document, repeat downloads, and Desk attachments do not consume new instruments.

The Case Compiler accepts uploaded inputs (typed text, pasted notes, images, PDFs, DOCX, audio) and produces a single structured case briefing with an executive summary, statutory provisions, procedural history, claims and reliefs, evidence notes, and open questions.

One compile is one instrument and is counted against the same 120-instrument cycle allowance as a drafted document. There is no separate Compiler pool. Inputs that fail pre-flight checks are recorded as exclusions inside the briefing rather than aborting the compile.

Yes. Every generated instrument is downloadable in Word (.docx) and PDF, and remains editable inside Legalise after generation.

IHC-format headers, clause structure, citations, and signature blocks are preserved on export. Re-downloading a generated document does not consume a new instrument.

Every member is issued a static public page at legalise.pk/at-law/{name} carrying the advocate profile the member publishes: name, areas of practice, chamber address, contact information, and bar credentials as provided by the member.

The page is search-engine indexable, listed in the public advocates sitemap, and functions as the member’s public presence within the Legalise directory. The page can be shared as a single link in correspondence and on professional channels.

The case law library holds 39,000+ written judgments across eight courts of Pakistan (the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, Sindh, and Balochistan High Courts, and the Federal Shariat and Federal Constitutional Courts), filterable by court, and is updated monthly as new judgments are reported. The statute set covers numerous Pakistani statutes with searchable full text, including foundational civil, criminal, evidentiary, and constitutional instruments material to ICT practice. Amendments are reflected as they are notified.

The corpus is the same for trial, paid, and admin tiers during the introductory access arrangement; Legalise reserves the right to revise research module access in subsequent billing cycles, with notice provided to active members in advance of any change.

Generated documents and Desk case files are not logged in full by Legalise. The platform retains only the metadata necessary to operate the service: instrument count, generation timestamps, document type, and member identifier.

Document contents are not accessed by Legalise staff outside an explicit member-initiated support request. This privacy posture applies to all real member accounts and is not relaxed for promotion, training, or evaluation. Test accounts used internally for engineering are excluded from this contract and are flagged as such.