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Legal work you can sign your name to.

Barilex takes a legal objective and works it through. It finds the Nigerian authorities, builds the argument, argues the other side, and checks every citation against the judgment it came from. You get the result, and every step that produced it.

Watch a sample matter How verification works

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What Barilex is

Chatbot

A chatbot answers a question.

One reply
Research assistant

A research assistant helps you investigate it.

A reading list
Barilex

Barilex takes the objective and does the work.

A checked draft

Barilex researches, reasons, argues the other side, checks every source and drafts, all in one job.

Why we built it this way

How it works

Barilex works from your objective, in six stages.

Barilex plans legal work the way a careful senior associate would: in stages you can watch, question and send back.

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reading instructions

Sample matter with invented parties and citations

You

We sued Rivergate Water Corporation for breach of a supply contract. We didn’t serve a pre-action notice. They filed a defence, took part for eight months, and have now filed a preliminary objection. Can we defeat it?

Barilex

Objective
Defeat the preliminary objection.
Issue for determination
Whether failure to serve a statutory pre-action notice defeats the suit where the defendant has filed a defence and taken steps.
Plan
Research, reasoning, challenge, verification, draft
BARILEX Understanding

Verification

A citation can exist and still be wrong.

Most tools stop once a case turns out to be real. Barilex asks five separate questions of every authority, and tells you which ones it couldn’t answer.

Sample matter with invented parties and citations

Barilex cites only what it can find.

Barilex locates every authority in its source material before it cites anything. A case it can’t find doesn’t reach your draft, however confident it sounds.

How lookup works
RemovedNo source found
List of authoritiesp. 4
  1. Adeyemi v. Coastal Water Corporation (2009) 12 NWLR (Pt. 1155) 214
  2. Musa v. Northern Grid Authority (2016) 7 NWLR (Pt. 1512) 98
  3. Eze v. Harbour Ports Authority (2012)
  4. Rivergate Water Corporation Law, s. 31

The corpus

Every judgment, briefed the way law school taught you.

Barilex stores each Nigerian judgment in parts: facts, issues, arguments, decision, ratio, obiter, orders and authorities. That lets it find the cases that share your legal issue, even when they use different words.

11,000

Nigerian case records to start from. We add more only as fast as we can check them.

Adeyemi v. Coastal Water Corporation

Sample record with invented details
Citation
(2009) 12 NWLR (Pt. 1155) 214
Court and date
Supreme Court, 10 July 2009
Facts
A supplier sued a state water corporation over unpaid invoices without serving the statutory pre-action notice. The corporation defended the suit for two years, then objected.
Issues
Whether the missing notice deprived the court of jurisdiction, and whether the corporation could still raise it.
Arguments
Appellant: the requirement is mandatory and goes to jurisdiction. Respondent: it is a procedural protection, and the appellant waived it.
Decision
The court dismissed the appeal, and the objection failed.
Ratio
“The requirement of notice is a shield given to the defendant. He may raise it, or he may lay it down.”
Obiter
Remarks on whether a plaintiff can cure a defective notice by serving a fresh one after the writ.
Orders
The court dismissed the appeal and awarded the respondent ₦500,000 in costs.
Authorities
Cites 7 authorities. 4 later decisions follow it. It overruled Danjuma (CA, 2006).

The authority graph

Barilex maps how judgments treat each other.

Each link shows whether a later court followed, distinguished or overruled an earlier decision, and points back to the passage that says so.

Follow a principle from the case that set it to the case that binds your court today.

This graph uses invented cases. In Barilex, every link comes from a passage in a judgment.

Who it’s for

Who uses Barilex, and what each gets back.

Barilex finds the authorities for and against you, with page numbers, before the 9am mention.

You ask

Our appeal turns on whether the trial court should have allowed an amendment after close of pleadings. Build the argument, and find the cases against us.

Barilex hands back

A reasoned position, ready for your review

  • The authorities for it, Supreme Court first
  • The authorities against it, and how to distinguish them
  • Every citation checked against its source

For associates and practitioners

Professional responsibility

You stay the lawyer.

Barilex does the legwork. The judgment, and the signature, stay with you.

It shows its working.

Every conclusion links to the authority behind it, and every authority to its passage. You can follow any point back to the page it came from.

It labels what it doesn’t know.

When Barilex can’t verify a point, it marks it unconfirmed and leaves the gap where you can see it.

It protects client confidentiality.

We design Barilex around the NBA’s guidance on AI use: client information stays confidential, and a lawyer decides every filing.

Pricing

Plans in naira, for Nigerian practice.

Proposed launch pricing. We’ll confirm final plans and usage limits before early access opens.

Compare plans

Student

₦4,000a month

For coursework, moots and exam preparation.

Individual

₦12,000a month

For practitioners doing their own research and drafting.

Professional

₦30,000a month

For heavy research, drafting and verification, every week.

FAQ

Questions a careful lawyer would ask.

If we haven’t answered your question, tell us when you join the waitlist.

Is Barilex another legal chatbot?

No. A chatbot answers in one pass. Barilex plans the task, researches in stages, argues the other side, and checks its own work before you see it. Every step stays open for you to inspect.

How do I know the citations are real?

Barilex looks every authority up in its source material before it cites it. It then checks the reference, the passage, the context and, where the judgments show it, the later treatment. It marks anything it couldn’t confirm as unconfirmed.

Is this Nigerian law, or general common law with a Nigerian accent?

Nigerian law. Barilex works from Nigerian judgments and statutes, and it knows which courts bind which. It labels foreign authority as persuasive, because that’s what it is.

Will it replace my judgment?

No. You remain responsible for what you file. Barilex shows its sources, flags its doubts, and leaves the decision with you.

What happens to client documents?

We treat client confidentiality as a design requirement. Before early access opens, we’ll publish exactly how Barilex stores, processes and deletes documents.

When can I use it?

Barilex is in development. We’re starting with one workflow: you give Barilex a legal issue, and it returns a verified argument. Join the waitlist and we’ll email you when early access opens.

Early access

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