Judy Legal Builds a Unified Case Law Database to Unlock Africa’s Common Law Systems
Nigeria- and Ghana-based legal technology startup Judy Legal, is developing to create a new structure ensuring a searchable, centralized database of common law judgements tailored to African jurisdictions. The platform is designed to improve and help lawyers, researchers, and legal professionals easily by locating relevant cases, comparing paper works and ensuring accurate legal research when conducted.
What started off as an academic study has grown in becoming a legal technology company. Presently serving legal practitioners in several African nations, Judy Legal is a portfolio firm of the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST). It is built as a platform to reduce research time from hours to minutes drastically by providing users with options of keywords, courts, dates, and legal principles.
As Africa’s legal system grows and expands, Judy Legal plans to establish itself as a major provider of accessibility, efficiency, and trust in Africa's common law ecosystems by opening up access to case law and reducing legal knowledge.
In addition to ensuring lawyers productivity, quicker access to precedent promotes logical legal reasoning and more knowledgeable judicial procedures. Also the startup is promoting the rule of law and creating an advanced legal research system in Africa by organizing and digitizing court rulings. The software provides an efficient replacement for manual searches and incomplete records for academic scholars, law firms, and internal legal teams.
About Judy Legal
In February 2018, Judy Legal was started as a top project by Sadiq Okocha, Bright Oleka and Charles Thompson at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology in Accra, Ghana. It later developed into a digital market with its market study in South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya, addressing legal research issues. The mission of the company is to support the legal profession and the administration of justice by providing a law reporting service in a convenient form and at a moderate price.