Statute Engine
The statute book as living data, not static PDFs.
Read the caseThe ministry held the country's entire body of statutes as static PDFs and Word files spread across departmental drives. Every amendment triggered a manual reconciliation: a drafter had to locate each downstream provision the change touched, hand-edit the consolidated version, and hope nothing was missed. Consolidating a single amended Act averaged 47 working days, roughly one in five published consolidations shipped with a cross-reference error, and citizens, courts, and firms were routinely citing superseded text because no authoritative live version existed.
Working days to consolidate an amended Act
Cross-reference error rate, down from ~20%
Authoritative point-in-time statute book
- - Consolidation of an amended Act cut from ~47 working days to under 3
- - Cross-reference error rate reduced from roughly 20% to below 1%
- - A single authoritative point-in-time statute book courts began citing directly