The problem it was built for
Pakistani legal research is slow in a specific way. The statutes are scattered across acts and ordinances that have been amended repeatedly, and reported judgments sit behind subscription databases whose coverage of primary statutory text stops well short of current. An advocate checking a point of law spends the time on retrieval rather than on the argument.
Asking a general-purpose AI chatbot instead trades that problem for a worse one. A chatbot answers from model memory, and model memory produces citations that look correct and do not exist. For a jurisdiction as under-represented in training data as Pakistan, this happens often enough that the output cannot be relied on without checking every reference by hand — which returns the advocate to the original retrieval problem.
How this is different
FAI does not answer from memory. It answers from an index of primary sources:
Statutory text is retrieved, not generated
The section text in an answer is the exact text held in the index. It is not paraphrased and not reconstructed.
Citations are verified, or declared unverified
A citation is marked verified only when the judgment was actually retrieved from the court source during that answer. What cannot be confirmed is reported as unconfirmed rather than presented as fact.
Every answer has the same four parts
Findings, the statutes that apply, the judgments for and against, and the sources used — so the reasoning can be checked against the record instead of taken on trust.
Coverage is stated, not implied
Two provincial High Courts are absent from the mirror, and the product says so rather than letting a reader assume nationwide reach.
The corpus counted against the production database on 19 August 2026
| Court | Judgments | Years covered |
|---|---|---|
| Lahore High Court | 9,603 | 2009–2026 |
| Peshawar High Court | 5,729 | 2009–2026 |
| Supreme Court of Pakistan | 3,744 | 1991–2026 |
| Islamabad High Court | 3,386 | 2000–2026 |
| Federal Shariat Court | 881 | 1980–2026 |
Judgments are mirrored from the courts' own published records. The Sindh High Court and the Balochistan High Court are not mirrored and are never searched. The mirror is a point-in-time copy refreshed periodically, so a judgment handed down in the last few days may not have been picked up yet.
The statutory index covers the Pakistan Penal Code, the Criminal Procedure Code, the Civil Procedure Code, the Qanun-e-Shahadat Order, the Contract Act, the Constitution and the special acts.
Who builds it
FAI Productions, Satellite Town, Behari Colony, Bahawalpur 63100, Punjab, Pakistan. The founder is Muhammad Faiz, who can be reached at support@failegal.site or through the channels on the contact page.
Responsible use
This is a research aid, not a substitute for professional legal judgment. Every statute should be verified for currency and repeal, and every citation checked against the official court source, before it is relied upon. The advocate remains responsible for the accuracy of what is filed.
Statute guides
Individual sections explained from the quoted text, not a paraphrase — nine so far, with more to follow as the corpus is turned into pages people actually search for.
FIR — Section 154 CrPC
Registering a First Information Report for a cognizable offence.
Bail — Section 497 CrPC
Bail in non-bailable offences, and the death/life/ten-year bar.
Pre-arrest bail — Section 498 CrPC
The High Court's power to admit to bail or reduce a bail amount.
Qatl-i-amd — Section 302 PPC
The three routes to punishment for intentional murder.
Attempt to murder — Section 324 PPC
Punished on its own, whether or not the act caused death.
Theft — Section 379 PPC
The general punishment, and how it differs from the aggravated forms.
Cheating (fraud) — Section 420 PPC
Why "420" carries a heavier sentence than plain cheating.
Criminal breach of trust — Section 406 PPC
Property entrusted lawfully, then dishonestly misused.
Defamation — Sections 499 & 500 PPC
The definition, the punishment, and the ten named exceptions.
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