Habeas is an AI-based legal research and document analysis platform developed for the Australian legal sector. It provides semantic search, case summarisation, and document review capabilities to assist law firms, barristers, and in-house teams in locating and analysing legal authorities.
Features and Functions of Habeas include:
Semantic Search
Enables users to pose natural-language queries and retrieves relevant case law and legislation based on legal context rather than keyword matching.
Case Law and Legislation Coverage
Draws from a corpus of more than 300,000 Australian judgments and statutes, returning paragraph-specific results with citations.
AI-Generated Summaries
Produces structured case summaries highlighting facts, issues, holdings, and judicial reasoning for faster review.
Custom Research Assistants
Allows firms to configure AI assistants aligned to practice areas or internal precedent collections.
Document Upload and Analysis
Supports uploading briefs, judgments, or other legal documents for content review and interactive Q&A.
Source Traceability
Provides links back to underlying authorities, ensuring transparency and verifiability of outputs.
Security and Data Handling
Uses retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architecture to separate client data from model training, with encryption applied in transit and at rest. Data hosting is located in Australia, with controls for data retention and redaction of sensitive information.
Workflow Integration
Includes a chat-based interface designed for ease of use and integrates with practice management platforms such as Smokeball for exporting results into client matters.
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