PinPoint Press
The Ledger
Bringing the past into the future of Australian legal practice
Three editions — Petal, Clover, Ledger — deliver personalised legal intelligence from daily awareness to a complete searchable archive.
The profession has lived with this anxiety for as long as courts have published decisions.
Every practitioner knows the feeling. You are on your feet in court, or in conference with a client, and opposing counsel cites a decision you have never seen. Or a partner asks what the High Court is doing to your practice area, and you cannot answer with confidence.
The High Court delivered 53 decisions in 2025. Add the Federal Court, state supreme courts, and specialist tribunals, and the output runs to thousands of decisions annually — each one potentially reshaping the law.
No practitioner can read them all. Most rely on ad hoc alerts, word of mouth, and the hope that they haven't missed something critical.
The profession deserves better than hope. There has always been a better way.
A robust and reliable gateway to what Australia's courts have done — and what it means for practice.
The Ledger provides three layers of intelligence in a single publication, then personalises it to each subscriber's jurisdiction, practice areas, and professional needs.
Petal — Daily Awareness
A quick daily index with catchwords, headnotes, and remarks on the decisions that matter most, so you start each day informed.
Clover — Weekly Strategy
A comprehensive weekly index that organises decisions by practice area, highlights doctrinal shifts, and connects matters across jurisdictions.
Ledger — Complete Archive
The permanent record — search for and download any processed decision with the full judgment in a professional, court-ready layout.
One system. Three layers of intelligence.
Petal keeps you current daily. Clover gives you the strategic view weekly. The Ledger preserves the complete record.
Petal
Your daily pulse on what matters.
JADE ProfessionalPetal keeps you updated on a daily basis. Each morning it creates a quick index of the day’s important decisions, complete with catchwords, headnotes, and remarks — so you know what happened before you walk into court.
- Daily current awareness
- Quick index of important decisions
- AI-generated catchwords & headnotes
- Significance remarks on key cases
Clover
The strategic view, delivered weekly.
Professional Plus / EnterpriseClover is a weekly update that offers a more comprehensive strategic index of the week. It organises decisions by practice area, highlights doctrinal shifts, and connects related matters across jurisdictions — giving you the bigger picture.
- Everything in Petal
- Weekly comprehensive strategic index
- Practice-area organisation across all jurisdictions
- Doctrinal shift analysis
- Cross-jurisdictional connections
Ledger
The complete record. Search, download, and rely on it.
Included with Professional PlusThe Ledger is the backup system that collects all processed decisions from Petal and Clover. It allows you to search for and download content with full judgments in a professional layout — a permanent, authoritative archive you can rely on.
- Everything in Clover
- Full searchable archive of all processed decisions
- Download with complete judgments
- Professional typeset layout for court use
- Permanent authoritative record
Every supreme court. One national record.
The inaugural edition covers all decisions of the High Court of Australia and every state and territory supreme court for the 2025 reporting period.
Federal
- HCAHigh Court of Australia
- FCAFCFull Federal Court
- FCAFederal Court
- FamCAFCFamily Court Full Court
- FedCFamC1AFederal Circuit & Family Court (Div 1 Appeal)
- FamCAFamily Court
- FCCAFederal Circuit Court
NSW
Supreme Court of New South Wales
NSW Courts
- NSWCACourt of Appeal
- NSWCCACourt of Criminal Appeal
- NSWSCSupreme Court
- NSWLECLand & Environment Court
- NSWDCDistrict Court
VIC
Supreme Court of Victoria
VIC Courts
- VSCACourt of Appeal
- VSCSupreme Court
QLD
Supreme Court of Queensland
QLD Courts
- QCACourt of Appeal
- QSCSupreme Court
WA
Supreme Court of Western Australia
WA Courts
- WASCACourt of Appeal
- WASCSupreme Court
SA
Supreme Court of South Australia
SA Courts
- SASCACourt of Appeal
- SASCFCFull Court of the Supreme Court
- SASCSupreme Court
TAS
Supreme Court of Tasmania
TAS Courts
- TASCCACourt of Criminal Appeal
- TASFCFull Court of the Supreme Court
- TASSCSupreme Court
ACT
Supreme Court of the ACT
ACT Courts
- ACTCACourt of Appeal
- ACTSCSupreme Court
NT
Supreme Court of the Northern Territory
NT Courts
- NTCACourt of Appeal
- NTCCACourt of Criminal Appeal
- NTSCFCFull Court of the Supreme Court
- NTSCSupreme Court
Federal Court and specialist tribunals coming in future editions
Daily awareness. Weekly strategy. Permanent record.
Petal arrives every morning. Clover lands each week. The Ledger archive grows continuously. An annual compendium consolidates the year's judicial work into a definitive reference volume.
Petal Published
Each morning, Petal delivers a quick index of the day’s important decisions with catchwords, headnotes, and remarks
Clover Published
Each week, Clover compiles a comprehensive strategic index organised by practice area and jurisdiction
Ledger Archive Updated
Processed decisions from Petal and Clover flow into the searchable Ledger archive with full judgments
Community Edition
Incorporating validated practitioner feedback via the Legal Ring
Annual Compendium
Each year's fortnightly editions are consolidated into a definitive, editorially refined annual volume — the complete judicial record for the reporting period.
Compare editions
| Feature | Petal | Clover | Ledger |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subscription | JADE Professional | Professional Plus / Enterprise | Included with Professional Plus |
| Frequency | Daily | Weekly | Continuous archive |
| Courts | Home-state + HCA | All jurisdictions | All jurisdictions |
| Quick index & catchwords | |||
| AI-generated headnotes | |||
| Significance remarks | |||
| Strategic weekly index | |||
| Practice-area organisation | |||
| Doctrinal shift analysis | |||
| Cross-jurisdictional connections | |||
| Full judgment downloads | |||
| Searchable archive | |||
| Professional typeset layout |
Every practitioner's Ledger is different.
The Ledger is not a static PDF to be shared around the office. It is a personalised professional intelligence service that lives inside JADE — with daily Petal updates tuned to your jurisdiction, weekly Clover summaries matched to your practice areas, and a searchable archive that grows alongside your career.
The experience compounds over time as the practitioner's Ember (personal annotations and insights) and Grove (personal library of authorities) grow richer, making each edition more valuable than the last.
Personalised Jurisdiction
Configured to your home court and practice areas
Compounding Value
Your Ember and Grove grow richer with every edition
Jasmine Intelligence
AI reasoning personalised to your professional context
Legal Ring Contributions
Build your professional reputation within the OpenLaw community
Professionally formatted. Court-ready.
Every decision covered by The Ledger is available as a fully typeset case with the Ledger headnote incorporated. These are not raw judgments — they are professionally formatted authorities suitable for inclusion in a list of authorities or tender to the court.
The headnote can be incorporated into a JADE Professional case format, extending the precedent set by JADE's existing High Court professional versions to every court The Ledger covers. For practitioners who assemble Satchels for court, the authorities arrive ready.
From Early Edition to Community Edition.
Each reporting period produces two editions. The Early Edition is produced by AI-assisted processes. The Community Edition incorporates validated feedback from practitioners across the profession. The Legal Ring is the bridge between them.
Early Edition
AI-generated analysis
The initial edition produced by AI-assisted processes — headnotes drafted, decisions classified, practice implications identified. Comments and editorial opinions welcome.
Community Edition
Collective professional judgment
The enriched edition incorporating validated practitioner contributions — carrying the weight of collective professional judgment.
The Legal Ring
The structured mechanism through which practitioners contribute to the profession's collective knowledge.
Validate editorial analysis against your practice experience
Suggest additional practice implications and cross-jurisdictional connections
Your contributions build your professional standing within the OpenLaw community
We exist for our communities of interest. The Community Edition carries the weight of collective professional judgment.
We build robust and reliable gateways to accurate legal knowledge. That has always been our purpose. Petal keeps you current every day. Clover gives you the strategic view each week. The Ledger preserves the complete record. Three editions, one promise: you will never lack the material to exercise your professional judgment well.
Michael Green SC
Founder & CEO, BarNet OpenLaw
We aim to bring the great to the good.
Petal, Clover, and the Ledger are the foundation of OpenLaw's legal intelligence ecosystem. Beginning with the High Court and state supreme courts, coverage will progressively extend to the Federal Court, specialist tribunals, and significant intermediate appellate decisions.
Daily awareness through Petal, weekly strategy through Clover, and permanent archival through the Ledger — together they form a continuous intelligence pipeline from the bench to your desk.
OpenLaw's purpose has always been to help legal professionals find, read, learn, share, remember, understand, and improve the law. The Ledger serves every one of those verbs. It is the authoritative substrate for Jasmine's intelligence capabilities — ensuring that when practitioners ask questions of the law, the answers are grounded in editorially verified, professionally curated authority.
Frequently Asked Questions
The profession deserves better than hope.
Petal is included with JADE Professional subscriptions. Upgrade to Professional Plus or Enterprise for Clover and full Ledger archive access.