Editorial policy
This page describes how the documents in our library are produced and maintained. It is written to be checkable: if anything here does not match your experience of a document, we want to hear about it.
Sources we work from
Each template is prepared for one named jurisdiction and drafted against that jurisdiction's own law - its civil, commercial, employment, tenancy or company legislation as applicable, together with the statutory formalities the document type has to satisfy. Where a document has mandatory content (notice periods, prescribed wording, signature or witnessing requirements), that requirement comes from the governing statute rather than from a general-purpose form.
A template offered for more than one country is prepared separately for each of them. We do not translate a document from one legal system and present it as valid in another: legal effect does not survive translation.
How a template is checked before publication
- the document is drafted for its jurisdiction and reviewed against the statutory requirements for that document type;
- the questionnaire is checked so that every field a user is asked for is actually used in the document, and every blank in the document is reachable from a question;
- the generated Word and PDF output is checked for structural defects - missing clauses, broken numbering, stray markup or layout that fails on a phone;
- language is checked to be the working legal language of the jurisdiction, including forms of address and gendered wording where the language requires them.
What triggers a revision
- Legislative change. When the law governing a document changes - amended statute, new mandatory clause, changed thresholds or notice periods - the affected templates are revised and republished.
- User reports. A report that a document is wrong, out of date or unsuitable for its stated jurisdiction is investigated ahead of other correspondence.
- Internal review. Templates are re-examined periodically, prioritising the document types that are used most.
Revisions apply to the template offered to new users. A document you have already downloaded is yours and is not altered retrospectively; if a change is material, the current version is always available from your account.
What we do not claim
We think it is more useful to be exact about the limits than to imply more than is true:
- LegalDocs is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. No lawyer-client relationship arises from using this site.
- Templates are general-purpose documents, not drafted individually for your circumstances. We do not review your situation, verify what you enter, or confirm that the template you picked is the right one for your purpose.
- We do not warrant that a document will be accepted by any particular court, registry, authority or counterparty, or that it achieves a particular legal or tax outcome.
- Where a matter is significant, contested or unusual, a qualified lawyer admitted in the relevant jurisdiction should review the document before you rely on it.
Corrections
To report an error, email support@legaldocs.expert with the document name and the country it was offered for, and - if you can - the clause or field concerned. We correct confirmed legal defects as a priority and republish the template.