Your firm's positions, held in one place.

Principles capture the arguments your firm runs again and again - stated once, tagged with authorities, and scored by how they have actually landed.

Reusable principles

A titled statement of the position, with a firm reference you can cite internally.

Emerging, settled, contested

Status reflects how well the position is holding up across matters.

Authorities attached

Each principle carries the authorities it rests on, not folklore.

Strength from outcomes

Applications and results feed a strength score, so weak positions surface.

Confidentiality aware

Firm-wide doctrine and matter-private positions are kept apart.

Applied, not archived

Every application links back to the matter, issue and disposition.

Doctrine that earns its keep.

A precedent bank tells you what you wrote. Doctrine tells you what you argue - and whether it works.

Capture

Stop re-deriving the house position every matter

A principle states your firm's position once, with a citable internal reference, its authorities and its tags. The next associate opening a similar matter starts from settled firm thinking rather than a blank page and a hunch.

Hours of re-research replaced by the position you already agreed.
Junior work reads like the firm, not like whoever drafted it.

Principle · DP-014Firm-wide

Time is not of the essence absent express words

Settled

Applied where a contract is silent on remedy for late performance.

Authorities

Union Eagle [1997] Bunge v Tradax

Status

Settled

Visibility

Firm-wide

Matter-private positions stay on the matter and never join firm doctrine.

Strength

Know which arguments actually win

Every application records the issue, disposition, result and attribution, and strength is derived from that record - so a position that keeps failing surfaces as contested instead of quietly circulating as house wisdom.

Evidence, not folklore, decides which line you run.
Weak positions get retired before they cost a client.

Strength from outcomes18 applications

Strength score0.78

Accepted at hearing

9 applications

Upheld

Conceded / withdrawn

3 applications

Against

Not determined

6 applications

Neutral

DP-031 · Contested

Losing more than it wins — surfaced, not buried.

Traceable

Defensible when a partner or client asks why

Each application links back to the matter, client, reference, issue and quantum, so the provenance of an argument is on the file rather than in someone's memory.

Answer 'where have we run this before?' in seconds.
Firm-wide doctrine stays separate from matter-private positions.

ApplicationsEvery one on the file

Ashcroft v Halliwell

Issue: late delivery · Quantum £412k

Upheld

Nord Ltd v Petra SA

Issue: repudiation · Quantum £86k

Neutral

Re Vance

Issue: notice period · Quantum £29k

Against

MatterAshcroft v Halliwell

Client referenceASH-2291

Attributed toA. Rowley

Doctrine statuses

Source of truth per position

Every

Application linked to a matter

Stop re-deriving the house position.

Write it once, apply it everywhere, and see how it actually performs.

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