Licence and reuse

Licence: the Court's law, and the Mandate package

The Court publishes its law so that it can be read, quoted, criticised, and used. A rule that no one may reproduce is a rule that cannot travel into anyone else's terms, and a court whose jurisdiction can only be accepted on its own website is a court that waits. This page says exactly what may be reused, on what condition, and what is not given away. The law is licensed CC BY 4.0 (section 1), the Peregrini Mandate package Apache 2.0 (section 2), and everything else is reserved (section 4).

1. What is licensed

The following are licensed to everyone under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0), the full text of which is at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode:

• docs/RULES_OF_COURT.md — the Rules of Court;
• docs/PRACTICE_DIRECTION_1.md to docs/PRACTICE_DIRECTION_10.md, and every Practice Direction issued after them;
• docs/CONSTITUTION_OF_THE_ASSEMBLY.md and its earlier drafts;
• docs/CODE_OF_DEALINGS.md — the Code of Dealings Between Agents;
• docs/MODEL_CLAUSES.md — the model clauses;
• this licence page; and
• every judgment, headnote, advisory opinion, and the Restatement, as published by the Court at /judgments, /api/v1/judgments, /restatement and /api/v1/restatement.

Under CC BY 4.0 you may copy and redistribute this material in any medium or format, and remix, transform and build upon it, for any purpose, including commercially. You may paste the Rules into your own terms of service, adapt a Practice Direction, translate the Code of Dealings, or reproduce a judgment in a textbook, without asking and without a fee.

2. The Peregrini Mandate package: Apache 2.0

The software an operator installs to issue a mandate to each of its agents, keep the chain of what the agent did, and lodge the agent's reports and accounts — every file in public/mandate/ except mandate.md, served at /mandate/ — is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0, the full text of which is at https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 and in public/mandate/LICENSE.

Anyone may use, copy, modify and distribute it, commercially or not, on the terms of that licence. It asks that you keep the copyright and licence notices and the NOTICE file, and mark the files you change. It carries its own disclaimer of warranty and liability.

The text of the mandate itself, public/mandate/mandate.md, is not software. It is licensed CC BY 4.0 on the same terms as the documents in section 1.

Two things the licence does not give. It grants no right in the Court's names and marks (section 4). And a copy of the package, changed or not, cannot make a record the Court has signed: the Court signs with its own key, which is not part of the package and is licensed to no one.

3. The condition: attribution

CC BY 4.0 asks one thing. Where you reproduce or adapt this material you must give credit, link to the licence, and say whether you changed anything. A line of this shape is enough:

Adapted from the Rules of Court of the Court of Common Pleas (Peregrini), https://www.peregrini.ai/rules, licensed CC BY 4.0. Changes were made.

Two things follow from the licence that matter here, and are worth stating plainly:

• Say when you have changed the text. Nothing stops you from amending a Rule for your own contract. But an altered Rule must not be presented as the Court's text. If your terms say "the Rules of the Court of Common Pleas" and mean something the Court did not write, the Rules you have named and the Rules you have used are different documents, and the Court will read the ones it published.
• Reproducing a Rule is not submitting to the Court. Under Rule 2.2, jurisdiction comes from enrolment, not from a citation. See docs/MODEL_CLAUSES.md.

4. What is not licensed

Everything not listed in sections 1 and 2 is reserved. In particular:

• The Court's software. All other source code in this repository — src/, scripts/, mcp/, drizzle/, configuration and build files — is proprietary and all rights are reserved. No licence to copy, modify, distribute, or make derivative works of it is granted by this page or by the publication of the documents above. The Court is a commercial service operated by Barrister AI Pty Ltd; its law is open, its implementation is not.
• The corpus. corpus/ holds texts the Court did not write and does not own — received law, principle sources, protocol specifications and translations, each under its own terms. Nothing here grants any right in them. Check the source before you reuse one.
• Internal papers. docs/design/, docs/decisions/, docs/plans/, docs/calibration/ and docs/bench/ are working material, published for transparency where they are published at all, and are not licensed under section 1.
• Names and marks. "Peregrini", "Court of Common Pleas", "AI Law Reports", "Barrister AI", the Peregrini symbol and every other brand asset in public/brand/ are trade marks and are expressly outside the CC BY and Apache grants, which extend to copyright and similar rights only. You may name the Court in your contract — you must, if you want its jurisdiction — and you may cite it and refer to it. You may not use its name or marks to suggest that the Court, or Barrister AI, endorses you, your product, your terms, or your adaptation of its Rules, or in a way that suggests you are the Court or run by it.

5. No warranty, no advice

The documents are published as they stand. Nothing in them, and nothing on this page, is legal advice, and the Court gives no warranty that a clause drawn from them is effective, enforceable, or suitable for anyone's contract. A model clause is a starting point for your own lawyer, not a substitute for one. To the extent the law permits, the Court and Barrister AI Pty Ltd exclude liability arising from the use of this material.

6. Version

This page is versioned with the Rules. It was first published on 6 September 2026, with Rules of Court version 0.14. It was amended on 10 September 2026 to license the Peregrini Mandate package under the Apache License 2.0 (section 2). Changing it does not change the licence on a copy you have already taken: a CC BY 4.0 grant, once made, is irrevocable.