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Plain-English answers, court-grade drafts, and a six-specialist legal team — covering Scotland and England & Wales, on call 24 hours a day, for less than the price of one solicitor letter.

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law-bud.app · Council tax summons — Glasgow
I've received a council tax summons from Glasgow City Council. The hearing is in 14 days. What do I do?
You · just now
DCDrafting
PAProcedural
EREvidence
ARAuthorities

Right — under The Council Tax (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1992, you have three concrete defences worth raising. The most useful one is Regulation 34(6) — the council must prove the debt is due, not just assert it.

Your 14-day plan: (1) issue a DSAR today, (2) request a postponement on grounds of inadequate disclosure, (3) prepare your Reg 34(6) skeleton argument…

📎 DSAR draft ready📎 Reg 34(6) skeleton📥 Save to Vault
LAW-BUD · Team mode · 4 specialists · 38s
Built on legislation.gov.ukCites BAILII case lawGDPR-compliant — your data stays yoursTwo jurisdictions, no compromisesNo legal-services regulator. By design.
The problem

Solicitors charge £250 an hour. Most people lose by default.

A council tax summons. A landlord serving Section 21. A DSAR being ignored. A small claim under £5,000. The legal system has answers — they're hidden inside thousand-page statute books, court rules written in 1893, and a forty-page solicitor invoice you can't afford.

We built LAW-BUD to be the friend with a law degree
you could text at midnight.

Team mode

Six specialists. One brief. Forty seconds.

When stakes are real, LAW-BUD calls a panel. The orchestrator picks the right four specialists for your matter, runs them in parallel, then synthesises one coherent plan.

DC
Drafting Counsel

Produces letters, particulars, defences, statements of claim, Notes of Appeal and urgent motions.

PA
Procedural Analyst

Maps deadlines, court rules, fees, forms, jurisdictional steps.

ER
Evidence Reviewer

Identifies what evidence is needed and what's missing.

NS
Negotiation Strategist

Plans concessions, anchors, BATNA, settlement structure.

AR
Authorities Researcher

Surfaces the cases and statutes that decide the outcome.

ET
Ethics & Risk

Spots conflicts, regulatory risks, and what NOT to do.

Every brief comes back stitched together — no need to read six replies. You see the plan, the citations, and what to do next.

Deep Research

Set it loose. Come back to a citation-rich brief.

Three modes answer in seconds. Deep Research goes further. You hand it a question — “is the council's summary warrant defective?”, “does Ground 1 PRT defeat my tenancy?” — and the model autonomously trawls legislation.gov.uk, BAILII, the official rules, and authoritative secondary sources, building a structured brief with every authority cited, in line.

It runs longer than a chat answer (typically 2–6 minutes), but the output is the kind of memo a junior solicitor would charge two hours for. You get the governing statute, the leading cases with one-line ratios, recent (post-cutoff) developments, and the counter-arguments — all linked.

  • Frontier deep-research engine grounded in UK legal sources
  • Cites legislation.gov.uk, BAILII, Supreme Court, official court rules
  • Live trawl — picks up cases decided since the model's training cutoff
  • Output ready to paste into a skeleton argument or instruction
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Deep Research in progress
3 m 41 s
Read Council Tax (Scotland) Act 1992 ss.13–17
Found 4 cases on summary warrant recall
Cross-checked against Bankruptcy & Diligence Act 2007
Drafting brief with citations…
Cross-referencing

Your documents, the statute, the case law — joined up.

Drop your contract, the council's letter, your tenancy, your dismissal letter into the Knowledge Base. LAW-BUD doesn't just read each one — it cross-references them against the law and against each other. You see exactly which clause of your contract collides with which section of the Act, with both quoted side by side.

Every assertion in an answer carries an inline citation. Every citation links back either to the source statute on legislation.gov.uk or to the specific paragraph in your uploaded document. You can audit any claim in a click.

  • Cites paragraphs in your uploads and sections of statute
  • Flags contradictions between your evidence and the other side's
  • Surfaces the missing document — “you should also be looking at…”
  • Every citation is a link — verifiable in one click
Your Notice to Leave is defective on three grounds. First, on Ground 1 (intent to sell), the Notice was served on 12 February 2026— but the landlord registration record shows the property was relisted for sale on 3 February 2026, before the notice. The Tribunal will weigh that.
CITED FROM:
📄 your-notice-to-leave.pdf — paragraph 4📄 rightmove-listing.png — header⚖ Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016, s. 52
What people are doing with it

Real cases. Real outcomes.

Three early users who used LAW-BUD on something that mattered. No hypotheticals — these are what people did and what happened next.

Team mode caught a procedural defect on the summary warrant I'd never have spotted alone. Drafted my DSAR + Reg 34(6) skeleton in twenty minutes.
OutcomeCouncil walked the debt back. Saved an estimated £1,400 in solicitor fees.
SM
Sarah M. · Glasgow
Council tax summons — Sheriff Court
Dropped the Notice + my deposit certificate into the Knowledge Base. LAW-BUD found the deposit was protected 33 days late — the Section 21 was void.
OutcomePossession application dismissed. Tenancy continued.
JT
James T. · Manchester
Section 21 — possession defence
Drafted the DSAR to my former employer in two minutes. Their response had three contradictions to the dismissal letter. Used Team mode to map every angle for the ET1.
OutcomeSettled pre-hearing for 11 months' salary.
RK
Rachel K. · Edinburgh
DSAR + employment tribunal

Names anonymised. Outcomes are user-reported. LAW-BUD provides general legal information, not bespoke advice — these results aren't guaranteed for every case.

Document templates

21 court-grade templates. One @ keystroke away.

Type @ in the composer. Pick a template. LAW-BUD drafts to the exact UK court layout — placeholders left in [SQUARE BRACKETS] for you to fill.

Court forms · Scotland
📄Initial Writ (Sheriff Court, Scotland)SCO
📄Form G6 — Notice of warrant for serviceSCO
📄Form G8 — Notice of intention to defendSCO
@initial|Format as: Initial Writ (Sheriff Court, Scotland) ✕

Court forms

Initial Writ, N1, N244, Form G6/G8/G9, Simple Procedure.

Letters

Letters Before Action, Statutory Demands, Notice letters.

Information rights

DSARs, FOIs, ICO complaints — drafted to spec.

Submissions

Witness statements, skeleton arguments, particulars.
Three answer modes

One question. Three different depths.

Pick the speed that matches the stakes. Switch any time mid-conversation.

Quick5–15 sec

The fast answer

A direct, plain-English answer with the relevant rule cited. Best for clarifying questions and well-trodden ground.

What is the small claims threshold in Scotland?
  • One-paragraph answer
  • Single statute or rule cited
  • Use when you just need the headline
Deep20–60 sec

The full reasoning

Structured answer with a fact-pattern read, multiple legal angles, citations to legislation and case law, and a recommended next step.

My landlord served Section 21 — is it valid?
  • Issues + counter-arguments mapped
  • Cites statute, regs and case law
  • Use when there's something at stake
Team30–90 sec

Six specialists working in parallel

Drafting Counsel · Procedural Analyst · Evidence Reviewer · Negotiation Strategist · Authorities Researcher · Ethics & Risk. The orchestrator picks the right four for your case.

I've been served a council tax summons — defend me
  • 4 sub-agents brief in parallel
  • Ends with a synthesised plan
  • Use when you're going to court
Timeline & deadlines

Every date that decides your case — in one place.

Tell LAW-BUD what's happened. It builds a chronological case timeline automatically — every letter, every notice, every call you mentioned, in date order, ready to print as a Tribunal bundle.

Then it works forward: every statutory deadline (3 months less one day for the ET, 14 days for the CFP, 28 days for the Notice to Owner) gets calculated from your facts and added to your deadline list. With reminders, if you want them.

  • Chronological timeline auto-built from your conversation + documents
  • Statutory deadlines calculated to the day (and to the hour where it matters)
  • Reminder schedule — email or in-app
  • Export the timeline as a Tribunal-ready bundle
Case timeline
Auto-built from your chat · 5 events · 2 deadlines
5 Feb 2026
Notice to Leave received
12 Feb 2026
DSAR sent to landlord
9 Mar 2026
DSAR response due — chase if silentDEADLINE
30 Apr 2026
Tribunal application earliest date
12 May 2026
Lodge Tribunal response (≤ 14 days)DEADLINE
Knowledge Base

Upload your own case papers. Ask LAW-BUD about them directly.

Your contract, the landlord's letter, the tenancy agreement, your written warning at work. Drop them into the Knowledge Base and LAW-BUD will read them as part of the conversation — no copy-pasting.

Behind the scenes: a server-side store, indexed text, and a search_knowledge_base tool the model invokes whenever your question is about your own documents.

  • DOCX · DOC · TXT · MD · RTF (PDF with optional install)
  • Server-side, persistent across sessions
  • AI searches your docs before searching the web
  • Trash a document any time — it's gone
Knowledge Base
3 documents indexed · 412 KB total
Drop files here or choose files
📄tenancy-agreement.docx32 KB✓ Indexed
📄section-21-notice.pdf212 KB✓ Indexed
📄rent-arrears-letter.txt168 KB✓ Indexed
Document Vault

A drive for the documents that decide your case.

Court letters, summons, contracts, scanned correspondence — everything in one place. Three default folders out of the box: Court documents, Letters, Emails received. Add your own categories. Switch between list and grid views.

Drag-and-drop upload anywhere in the modal, multi-select for bulk move and delete, rename in place, download originals when you need them.

  • PDF · DOCX · DOC · TXT · MD · RTF · PNG · JPG · EML up to 25 MB
  • Brand-styled list and grid views with file-type glyphs
  • Bulk select, bulk move, bulk delete
  • Original binaries — download whenever
All documents
⚏ List▦ Grid
All documents12
Court documents5
Letters4
Emails received3
PDF
Summons.pdf
Court docs
DOC
Section 21.docx
Letters
EML
Council reply.eml
Emails
PDF
Tenancy.pdf
Court docs
DOC
DSAR.docx
Letters
IMG
Photo.jpg
Court docs
Solicitor Search

When you do need a human lawyer — find the right one in seconds.

Two big jurisdiction cards: Scotland (Law Society of Scotland · SLAB) and England & Wales (Law Society of E&W · SRA). LAW-BUD knows the difference and searches the right authoritative directories first.

Tick the solicitors you want to contact, hit Draft inquiry emails, and LAW-BUD writes one personalised email per recipient — each in its own copy block, with a Copy All button if you want them as one go.

  • Jurisdiction-aware: Scots law surfaces SLAB & LSS first
  • Filter by practice area, location, free text
  • Per-block + Copy-All clipboard buttons
  • Drafts a tailored email to each solicitor in one shot
Scotland
Law Society of Scotland · SLAB
England & Wales
Law Society of E&W · SRA
Macleod & Co Solicitors
Civil litigation · Glasgow
Caledonian Legal LLP
Council tax defence · Edinburgh
Hebrides Law
Tenancy disputes · Inverness
Draft inquiry emails (2 selected) →
Voice transcription

Hold to talk. Read the answer back.

48 kHz mono, 128 kbps Opus capture with browser-side noise suppression and AGC. A live volume meter so you can see the mic is hot. Multi-model fallback chain so it works whichever transcription tier your account has.

Biased to UK legal terminology — Sheriff Court, Section 21, DSAR, Reg 34(6) — so it doesn't produce nonsense on technical terms.

  • Live volume meter — visible feedback your mic is working
  • Multi-model fallback so transcription never silently fails
  • Specific error messages: permissions, rate limits, key issues
  • Built-in Word Error Rate test to verify accuracy on your hardware
🎙
Recording · 0:14
“Under Regulation 34(6) of the Council Tax (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1992, can you draft me a defence on the basis of inadequate disclosure?”
Document export

Every draft saves itself. Download as PDF or DOCX.

When LAW-BUD finishes a templated draft, it auto-saves to your Library. A row appears below the message: Saved to your library · Download PDF · Download DOCX. No extra clicks.

Library has a Documents tab with everything you've saved — open the chat that produced it, download the file, or trash it.

  • PDF + DOCX, both rendered server-side
  • Auto-save on every templated draft — no extra clicks
  • Library Documents tab for the full archive
  • Per-block Copy and a Copy All button on multi-draft replies
DSAR — Subject Access Request
To: Data Protection Officer, Glasgow City Council
Pursuant to Article 15 UK GDPR, I hereby request a copy of all personal data you hold concerning me…
✓ Saved to your library⬇ Download PDF⬇ Download DOCX
Two jurisdictions, no compromises

Scots law is different. LAW-BUD knows.

Most AI tools collapse England, Wales and Scotland into one. We don't.

Scotland
Statute & rules
  • Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971
  • Ordinary Cause Rules 1993
  • Simple Procedure Rules 2016
  • Council Tax (Scotland) Act 1992
Court forms covered

Initial Writ · Form G6 · G8 · G9 · Simple Procedure Claim

Authorities

Law Society of Scotland · SLAB · Scottish Courts & Tribunals Service

England & Wales
Statute & rules
  • Civil Procedure Rules (CPR)
  • County Courts Act 1984
  • Pre-Action Protocols
  • Council Tax (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1992
Court forms covered

N1 · N244 · Particulars of Claim · Skeleton Argument · Witness Statement

Authorities

Law Society of E&W · SRA · HMCTS

Why LAW-BUD

Stack it against the alternatives.

Free advice has gaps. Solicitors are expensive. Google is unreliable. Here's what each option actually gives you when something goes wrong.

Citizens AdviceGoogle + DIYHigh-street solicitorLAW-BUD
CostFreeFree£250+/hour£0–£19/month
Available 24/7Limited hoursDepends on what you findOffice hoursAlways
Court-grade draftsGeneric templatesYes21 court-grade templates
Cites UK statute + case lawMixed — often outdatedYesEvery claim, in line
Knows Scots lawPartialOften confused with E&WIf they specialiseProperly — separate engine
Timeline & deadlinesSometimes (extra fee)Built-in
Six-specialist Team modeSolo lawyerYes
Cross-references your docsManually, billed by the hourAutomatically

One letter from a solicitor pays for a year of LAW-BUD.

Pricing

One letter from a solicitor pays for a year of LAW-BUD.

Every plan covers Scotland and England & Wales. Cancel any time.

Try it out
Starter
£0
15 questions / month
Start free
  • 15 questions / month
  • Quick + Deep answer modes
  • 21 court-grade templates
  • Citations to legislation.gov.uk + BAILII
  • England & Wales + Scotland coverage
Everyday legal questions
Essential
£19/month
200 questions / month
Choose Essential
  • 200 questions / month
  • All three modes — Quick · Deep · Team
  • Knowledge Base — cross-references your docs against statute
  • Document Vault — letters, court papers, emails
  • Timeline & deadlines tracking
  • Solicitor Search (Scotland · England & Wales)
  • Voice transcription
  • PDF + DOCX export
Most popular
Active disputes
Professional
£49/month
1,000 questions / month
Choose Professional
  • 1,000 questions / month
  • Everything in Essential, plus:
  • Deep Research — autonomous case-law dives
  • Six-specialist Team mode (full panel)
  • Litigation playbook + advanced tactics
  • Cross-referenced citation bundles
  • Scheduled deadlines, reminders + cron tasks
  • Cross-examination preparation
  • Priority support
Solicitors & teams
Firm
£149/month
5,000 questions / month
Choose Firm
  • 5,000 questions / month
  • Everything in Professional, plus:
  • Multi-seat workspace
  • Negotiation strategy modules
  • Bring-your-own-skill uploads
  • API access
  • SLA + dedicated success manager
  • Bespoke onboarding for the firm

Every plan includes core UK Law skill, plain-English answers with citations, projects, chats, GDPR-compliance, and full Scotland + England & Wales coverage. Pricing in GBP, exclusive of VAT where applicable.

Frequently asked

The honest answers.

Is LAW-BUD a regulated legal services provider?+

No. LAW-BUD provides general legal information you can act on — it is not bespoke advice and we are not authorised by the SRA, the Law Society of Scotland, or any other regulator. For complex matters, instruct a solicitor (we'll help you find one).

Does it really know Scots law, or is it just England & Wales with a kilt?+

Real Scots law. Every Sheriff Court form (Initial Writ, G6/G8/G9, Simple Procedure), the Ordinary Cause Rules 1993, SLAB, and the Law Society of Scotland — separate from CPR / County Court / SRA. The model picks the right rule set based on your jurisdiction setting.

How accurate are the citations?+

Every citation is to legislation.gov.uk, BAILII, the Supreme Court site, or the official rules. The model is instructed to cite source and section, and to flag when something is post-cutoff or uncertain. You should still verify before filing.

What about my data?+

Your chats, vault and Knowledge Base are stored on your account. We don't sell your data. You can delete your account and everything in it at any time. GDPR rights are honoured by default.

Can I cancel?+

Yes — any time, no contracts. The account drops to free at the end of the billing period.

What about Northern Ireland?+

We're focused on E&W and Scotland today. NI is on the roadmap but we'd rather get two jurisdictions right than three half-built.

Will it write me a will / handle my divorce / file my tax return?+

It will draft you a will skeleton, talk you through divorce procedure, and tell you what HMRC needs — but for life-changing decisions, instruct a regulated professional. LAW-BUD is the friend with a law degree, not the practising solicitor.

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