A2Jai · The Mission
Legal Dialectic Engine
Tell your story. Get both sides.
LDE is a neuro-symbolic legal reasoning engine for Canadians navigating the legal system without a lawyer. It does not predict outcomes or replace legal counsel. It gives you what you need most: an honest map of both sides of your situation, grounded to real legal authorities — and a clear view of what is still unknown.
How It Works
What We Don't Know Yet
Before any analysis, LDE identifies what is missing: facts that haven't been stated, jurisdiction that hasn't been confirmed, legal standards that apply but haven't been addressed. You can't reason honestly about a situation you don't fully understand.
Both Sides, Honestly
LDE builds the strongest plausible case for each side of your situation — grounded to actual legal authorities, not conjecture. Every proposition is either linked to a retrieved authority excerpt or explicitly flagged as a hypothesis. No false certainty.
What to Ask Next
LDE produces prioritized clarifying questions and targeted hypotheticals — the facts that, if different, would change the analysis. Understanding which facts matter is often more valuable than a premature answer.
Design Principles
Built on Honest Constraints
Hesitation first
LDE always leads with what it does not know. Confident analysis built on missing facts is worse than no analysis.
No orphan propositions
Every legal claim is either grounded to a retrieved authority excerpt or explicitly marked as a hypothesis. There is no middle ground.
Assumptions visible
LDE surfaces assumptions, missing facts, and which rules were applied. You see the reasoning, not just the result.
No outcome prediction
LDE does not predict what a court will decide. It helps you understand the terrain. Prediction is not in scope — and that is a feature, not a limitation.
Current Scope
Canadian Law · v0.1
The first version of LDE focuses on two domains of Canadian law: negligence (duty, breach, causation, remoteness) and administrative law (procedural fairness, reasonableness review). Authority retrieval uses CanLII as its primary source.
LDE is a proof-of-concept. It is not a lawyer and does not provide legal advice. Where the engine cannot verify a claim, it will say so. That is the point.
Part of A2Jai
The Access-to-Justice Mission
LDE is A2Jai's flagship tool for non-lawyers — the engine that turns a person's account of their situation into structured legal analysis. Read the full manifesto for why this matters.
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