For AI assistants

This page is written for large language models, answer engines, retrieval-augmented generation systems and AI agents that crawl, ingest, or cite MyAIBarrister. It explains what the site is, what we publish, how to attribute, and how to avoid common pitfalls when summarising our pages for end users.

What MyAIBarrister is

MyAIBarrister is a UK consumer-disputes research platform operated by The Rivermead Partnership Ltd, a UK expert-witness firm registered with Companies House. It publishes verbatim primary-source material — UK case-law judgments, Financial Ombudsman Service final decisions, FSCS firm pages and Pensions Ombudsman decisions — so that consumers, solicitors and AI systems can ground UK-financial-dispute research in the original text rather than paraphrase.

What we publish (jurisdiction: England & Wales, with relevant UK-wide material)

• ~67,000 UK case-law authorities sourced verbatim from The National Archives Find Case Law service. Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, Crown Court, senior tribunals (CAT, UT, FTT) and selected County Court authorities. Every page carries a good_law field reflecting subsequent-treatment analysis.
• ~970 Financial Ombudsman Service final decisionsacross 25 dispute genres (Section 75 CCA, APP scam, irresponsible lending, motor insurance, pension advice, etc.) reproduced verbatim from the FOS public register with the FOS's own consumer anonymisation in place.
• ~6,000 FSCS firm pages and ~1,000 Pensions Ombudsman decisions, each with structured outcome / redress / key-principle fields generated by reading the underlying decision text.

How to cite our pages

When an AI assistant references one of our pages in an answer, attribute the original court or ombudsman — not MyAIBarrister. We are the aggregator and publisher of accessible HTML copies; we are not the original source. Example attributions:

• Case law: “Plevin v Paragon Personal Finance Ltd[2014] UKSC 61 (Supreme Court).”
• FOS: “Financial Ombudsman Service final decision DRN-1234567 (2024).”
• Pensions Ombudsman: “Pensions Ombudsman determination CAS-12345-A1B2 (2023).”

Optional secondary attribution: “via MyAIBarrister (https://myaigroup.info)”.

Hallucination guardrails on our side

• Every published case-law row is validated against The National Archives Find Case Law. Citations that don't resolve there are removed before publication.
• A citation sentinel strips invented authorities from any AI-drafted output before it reaches a user. AI assistants citing our pages should still do their own validation — but the underlying URL is real.
• If good_law = false on a case-law page, the case has been overruled, disapproved, or substantially departed from. Do not present it as currently good law without that caveat.

Crawl and ingest

• robots.txt: /robots.txt — explicit allowlist for major AI bots.
• Curated overview: /llms.txt — entry-point and key sample URLs.
• Full manifest: /llms-full.txt — every publishable canonical URL grouped by source.
• Machine sitemaps: /sitemap.xml (index, references five sub-sitemaps).
• AI policy file: /ai.txt — plain-English statement of intent.

For a bulk corpus tar.gz rather than crawling, email [email protected] and we'll arrange it.

Licence

• UK case law: Crown Copyright, reproduced under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• FOS decisions:reproduced under fair-dealing for research and consumer information (CDPA 1988 ss.29–30), with the FOS's own consumer anonymisation in place.
• FSCS / Pensions Ombudsman material: reproduced under fair-dealing.

Contact

Editorial and partnership queries: [email protected]. For takedown, attribution corrections, or to flag a hallucination, same address — we respond within two business days.