Numo is case and document software for UK family law practice. It runs a matter from intake to final order, holds the facts, dates, money and documents in one place, reviews documents against the firm's own playbook, and records that a named qualified person approved anything that leaves the firm.

Does Numo cover Scotland and Northern Ireland?

Yes. It holds a separate knowledge pack for England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, resolves which one governs a matter from the connecting factors at intake, and blocks another jurisdiction's vocabulary from reaching an outgoing draft.

Is client data used to train an AI model?

No. Content is sent to the model provider's commercial interface for the length of a request and is not used to train their models under those terms. The provider is named on the sub-processors page.

Can the assistant send an email or file a document on its own?

No. It prepares. Service, filing and sending each need a named person's decision recorded against the exact version, and every action in a connected account is asked for separately in a card showing exactly what would happen.

How much does Numo cost?

It is priced per firm rather than per fee earner, starting at £59.99 a month plus VAT for a sole practitioner, with tiers for practices up to seven, up to fifteen, and firms of any size.

What happens to a document that contains instructions aimed at an AI?

It is quarantined before any model reads it and listed so a person knows it exists and reads it themselves. Text inside a document is treated as evidence about the matter, never as a command.

Product

One system that understands the matter, not four that store it

A firm runs on facts, dates, money and documents. Today those live in a practice management tool that mostly does billing, a Word folder, a paralegal's head, and a diary. Numo Law holds all four and knows what they mean.

Two of the pages

The day starts on one, the case lives on the other

There are a dozen more. Showing you all of them in a carousel would tell you less than half an hour on your own matter, so here are the two a solicitor actually opens every day.

See the rest on your own mattersForty minutes, with a family practitioner rather than a salesperson.

The spine

The Case Brain

Everything else reads from one canonical state of the matter, which is why the figures on a schedule and the dates in a letter cannot drift apart.

Fact ledger: Every fact is classified as confirmed, asserted by client, asserted by the other party, inferred, disputed or unverified, and traced to a source document, page and date. An allegation never becomes a fact because the client said it with confidence.
Chronology: Built from the documents themselves with source attribution, significance tagging and a privilege screen. Exports as a working chronology, a statement of facts, or a witness-specific version.
Evidence matrix: Per contested issue: both positions, the supporting and contradicting evidence, what is missing, evidential strength and the action required.
Contradiction detector: Cross-references the client’s account against their earlier statements, the court documents and the other side’s material. It surfaces conflicts and asks; it does not quietly resolve them.
Disclosure matrix: Every required document by date range and state, with version comparison, questionnaires and schedules of deficiencies generated from the gaps.

Chain of custody

From a source document to a served one

The guarantee is not that a draft appears quickly. It is that you can reconstruct how it was produced, from which sources, under whose approval.

Source
Statement, order or message export. Hashed on arrival.
Verified fact
Graded, and traced to a document, page and date.
Draft
Assembled from your adopted precedent.
Checks
Seventeen, including citation and arithmetic.
Approval
A named person, against that exact version.
Signature
Sealed, with a completion certificate.
Service
Who, when, and by what method.

Most tools cover stage three. The regulator, the insurer and the judge are interested in stages four to seven.

Documents and signing

Assembled from your precedents, signed under your name

SupportedPrecedent library: The firm’s own precedents take priority over ours. A named owner adopts each one, with effective and superseded dates, so a document produced last March can be reproduced exactly as it stood then.
SupportedFirm branding: Logo, letterhead, regulator line, registered details, complaints wording, typography, page numbering and signature blocks, per office and per fee earner. Accessible tagged PDF out, with clean metadata.
SupportedElectronic signature: Identity binding proportionate to the document, signing order, reminders, a tamper-evident seal and a completion certificate with the full event history. Advanced and qualified signatures where a counterparty insists.
SupportedStatements of truth: The prescribed wording and the consequences of a false statement go in front of the signer, and the fact that they saw it is recorded.
Blocked by the productRemote witnessing of a deed: Anything that must be executed as a deed requires a witness who is physically present, because that is what the law requires. The product enforces it rather than leaving it to the fee earner to remember.
Blocked by the productGuessing a registry’s format: Anything a court or a registry requires in a particular form is flagged for a human. Land Registry requirements are treated as a gate, not a default.

Module map

Fifty-two modules across nine areas

Built means running today. Building means in active development. Specified means designed and scheduled.

Matter and case state

Jurisdiction router: Resolves E&W, Scotland or Northern Ireland from the connecting factors, then locks law, forms, vocabulary and courts to it.
Jurisdiction leak scanner: Blocks vocabulary from the wrong UK jurisdiction in any outgoing draft.
Deadline engine: Official bank holiday calendar per jurisdiction, clear-days counting, cascaded back into internal targets.
Matter intake: Conflict, identity, safety, jurisdiction, safeguarding and capability screens, in order, with no skip path.
Case Brain: The canonical state: chronology, people, issues, objectives, evidence, gaps, deadlines, risk.
Conflict check: Client, other party, former names, connected parties and related proceedings, without exposing confidential information.
Daily case review: Health check on every active matter, from stale tasks to new safeguarding indicators.

Facts, evidence and disclosure

Fact ledger: Six grades of fact, each traced to a document, page and date.
Chronology builder: Built from the documents, with attribution, significance tagging and a privilege screen.
Document intelligence: Ingests statements, orders, bank and pension statements and message exports. Hashes the original.
Evidence matrix: Per issue: positions, support, contradiction, gaps, strength, action.
Contradiction detector: Surfaces conflicts across the client's own account and the other side's material.
Disclosure matrix: State per required document, version comparison, questionnaires, schedules of deficiencies.
Non-disclosure flags: Unexplained transfers, new accounts, lifestyle mismatches. Investigative flags, never allegations.

Money

Calculation engine: Integer pence. No model in the calculation path. Workings on every figure.
Asset schedule and modelling: Property, pensions, business, investments, debt. Proposals compared side by side.
Costs and budget tracking: Running estimate against the figure given to the client, with update triggers.
Legal aid and LAA workflow: Means, merits, scope, costs limits and the data the billing route needs.
Time recording and billing: Capture and rates, exported to the firm's accounts package rather than replacing it.

Children and safety

Children module: Welfare analysis kept separate from parental grievance. Refuses to help coach a child or breach an order.
Public law and care: Threshold documents, care plans, the 26-week timetable, parallel planning, agency disclosure.
Safeguarding engine: Screens for violence, coercive control, stalking, abduction risk and financial control. Overrides workflow.
Safe contact protocol: Notifications never disclose the nature of the matter where that is unsafe.

Documents, signing and delivery

Precedent and clause library: The firm's own precedents, version controlled, adopted by a named owner.
Drafting engine: Correspondence, statements, agreements, schedules, instructions, orders. Never inflammatory.
Document assembly: Verified data into an adopted precedent. Missing fields marked, never invented.
Firm branding: Letterhead, regulator line, complaints wording, typography and signature blocks.
Court form library: Version-controlled forms per jurisdiction, populated only from verified data.
Citation verification: Find Case Law and legislation.gov.uk, with graded verdicts.
Electronic signature: Identity binding, signing order, sealed PDF, completion certificate.
Deed execution: Physical witness presence enforced. No remote shortcut.
Statement of truth: Prescribed wording and consequences shown, and the fact recorded.
Secure delivery: Portal by default, safe contact rules applied to every route.
Service and filing records: What was served on whom, when, by what method, with certificates.
Version control: Internal draft through to filed and served. Superseded material cannot be sent.

Court and hearings

Court order analysis: Recitals, findings, orders, undertakings, penal notices, costs and every deadline, turned into dated tasks.
Hearing preparation: Issues, facts, weaknesses, opponent position, authorities, compliance, draft position and order.
Bundle engine: Deduplicate, paginate, bookmark, index to current rules. Flags illegible and prohibited material.
Legal research: Source-first, with authorities, counterarguments, risks, evidence required and confidence.
Red team review: Adversarial pass before major advice or any court-facing document.

Strategy and the client

Decision room: Genuine options with legal basis, cost, risk, reversibility and effect on children. No steering.
Negotiation tracker: Offer history with status, expiry, financial effect and implementation requirements.
Client dashboard: The six questions a client actually has, answered without a phone call.

Control, compliance and audit

Professional user gate: Regulated professional or supervised by one. Regulator and roll number recorded, re-attested annually.
Decision classification: Class 0 internal to Class 4 urgent specialist review, with the approval each one needs.
Approval ledger: What was approved, which version, the warnings shown, when. A material change voids it.
Human review engine: Green, amber, red, black. Black cannot proceed without a senior decision-maker.
Quality control pipeline: Seventeen checks on every outward-facing document.
Audit trail: Hash-chained and append-only.
Access control: Least privilege, matter-scoped, safeguarding material restrictable inside the firm.
Current-law monitor: Watches legislation, rules and forms. Suspends unsafe automation until a lawyer validates a change.

Practice operations

Firm dashboard: Matter load, deadline exposure, approval backlog, disclosure state and the compliance evidence a COLP will ask for.

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One system that understands the matter, not four that store it

The day starts on one, the case lives on the other

The command centre

The Case Brain

The Case Brain

From a source document to a served one

Assembled from your precedents, signed under your name

Fifty-two modules across nine areas

Matter and case state

Facts, evidence and disclosure

Money

Children and safety

Documents, signing and delivery

Court and hearings

Strategy and the client

Control, compliance and audit

Practice operations

Bring a matter that keeps going wrong