Terms

Last updated 3 September 2026

1. The agreement

These terms are between [REGISTERED ENTITY NAME](“Solon”, “we”) and the chamber, firm or advocate using the service (“you”). Using Solon means accepting them. If you are accepting on behalf of a firm, you confirm you may bind it.

2. Your professional responsibility

This clause matters more than the rest, so it comes first.

Under the Advocates Act, 1961 and the Bar Council of India Rules, the advocate who signs is answerable. That does not change because software helped. Accordingly you agree that:

• you read and verify everything before it is filed, sent or relied upon
• you check every citation against the judgment itself — Solon links to the source for exactly this reason
• you confirm every date against the court’s own record before acting on it
• you remain responsible for limitation, for service, and for every professional obligation you owe your client

Solon will not tell you a matter is safe to file, and does not calculate limitation for you. Where it offers a view, it is a starting point for your judgement, not a replacement for it.

3. What Solon does

• retrieves matters from the public court record and keeps them current
• indexes judgments and reports how later benches treated them
• holds bare acts with the old codes mapped to the new
• helps you draft, by dictation, in your chamber’s own format
• shows your clients the status of their own matters
• prepares briefs on drafts you leave open

What is included depends on your plan. We may add, change or withdraw features; if we withdraw something material to your plan we will tell you at least 30 days beforehand.

4. What we do not promise

We are direct about the limits, because you will find them anyway.

• Court data is only as good as eCourts. Records go stale, arrive late, and are sometimes wrong. Solon shows you when the court last updated a record so you can judge it — but the source is not ours and we cannot warrant it.
• Case law coverage is not complete. Judgments not published by our sources are not in Solon. Absence of an authority is not evidence that none exists.
• Treatment analysis is our reading. Whether a bench followed or distinguished an authority is a judgement, and ours can be wrong. Every one links to the paragraph so you can check it.
• Dictation makes mistakes. It is trained on Indian legal English and will still mis-hear. Read what it wrote.
• Solon does not predict outcomes. Court statistics report what has happened. They say nothing about your matter.

Beyond what the law requires of us, the service is provided as it is, without warranties of fitness for a particular purpose.

5. Your work is yours

You own your matters, your drafts, your clients’ details and every document you upload. We claim no right in them.

You grant us only the licence needed to run the service: to store your data, show it to you, process it through the providers listed in our privacy policy, and send what you ask us to send. That licence ends when you delete the data.

We do not train AI models on your work. Not your drafts, not your matters, not your clients’ papers.

Solon itself — the software, the treatment analysis, the headnotes and the indexes we build — remains ours.

6. Acceptable use

Do not:

• share an account. Each person needs their own — codes go to their email
• use Solon to access matters you are not entitled to see
• reproduce, resell or redistribute our case-law index or analysis as a product of your own
• attempt to extract the corpus in bulk, or run automated retrieval beyond ordinary use
• upload malware, or anything unlawful to possess
• reverse, republish or otherwise defeat the masking of party names a court has protected

That last one we treat as terminal. A court masked those names for a reason.

7. Payment

• Plans are monthly or yearly, in advance, in Indian Rupees, exclusive of GST.
• Court data and case-law retrieval are metered. Your usage is visible in your account as you go — not for the first time on an invoice.
• Usage beyond your plan’s allowance is billed at cost. Nothing stops working at a limit.
• Cancel at any time; you keep access to the end of the period you paid for.
• We do not refund part-months, except where the law requires.
• Prices may change with 30 days notice, never mid-term.
• If payment fails we will tell you and give 14 days before suspending. Your data is not deleted on suspension.

8. Court data and case law

Court records come from eCourtsIndia and judgments from Indian Kanoon, under our licences with them. Judicial records and statutes are public documents; Indian copyright law expressly permits reproducing any Act or judgment.

What is ours is the layer on top — the treatment analysis, the paragraph index, the headnotes and the code mappings. Use them in your practice freely. Do not repackage them as a product.

9. Availability

We aim for Solon to be available whenever you need it, and we will not pretend to a number we cannot honour today. What we will commit to:

• maintenance is scheduled outside Indian court hours where we control the timing
• you will be told about planned downtime beforehand
• if a provider we depend on fails, we will say so plainly rather than showing you stale data as though it were current

Firm-plan customers may ask for a service level agreement, which we will negotiate separately.

10. Liability

Nothing here excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law does not permit us to exclude.

Subject to that, our total liability in any twelve-month period is limited to the fees you paid us in that period. We are not liable for loss of profit, loss of business, or the outcome of any matter.

11. Ending it

You may close your account at any time from your account page. We may end this agreement on 30 days notice, or immediately if you breach clause 6.

When it ends:

• you can export everything for 30 days
• after 30 days, your data is permanently deleted
• invoices are kept 8 years, as tax law requires

We will not hold your papers hostage over a billing dispute. Export stays available even if an invoice is outstanding.

12. Governing law

Indian law governs this agreement. Disputes go to arbitration under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, before a single arbitrator seated at [SEAT OF ARBITRATION], in English.

Before that: write to us. Most things are a misunderstanding, and we would rather fix it than argue about it.

Questions: contact us. See also our privacy policy and security page.