Designed by practising barristers

DefendThis

AI assistance for businesses defending employment and civil claims.

DefendThis does the preliminary fact gathering on a claim and produces the first draft. It does not replace your lawyers. They review, advise and file.

Built forGrievancesDisciplinariesTribunal claimsPersonal injury claimsWitness evidence

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Built by practising barristers, each ranked by Legal 500 or Chambers and Partners.

Every document is a draft for a qualified lawyer to review.

Leonidas: the core allegations screen. Allegation 11 is classified as needing further detail, and the respondent types: The Claimant refused to engage with occupational health when he was referred. The counter then moves to 4 of 85 classified.

Not a replacement for lawyers

DefendThis does the preliminary fact gathering. Your lawyers do the law.

  • What DefendThis does

    Takes the account from the people who hold the facts, in hours. Tests it against the documents. Produces the first draft, marked DRAFT.

  • What it does not do

    Give legal advice. Decide anything. Conduct litigation or appear.

  • What your lawyers do

    Review, amend, advise and file, from a complete file rather than a blank page.

The workflow

From the first complaint to the filed response.

Five stages inside the business, then your lawyers.

  1. 1

    Something happens

    A grievance, a disciplinary, a slip on a wet floor.

    Manager or HR

  2. 2

    The internal process runs

    The account is taken that day.

    Jesmond and Anita

  3. 3

    A claim arrives

    Every allegation listed.

    Leonidas

  4. 4

    The facts are gathered

    On a link, tested against the documents.

    Leonidas and Anita

  5. 5

    Drafts are produced

    Grounds of resistance, letter of response or defence.

    Leonidas

  6. 6

    Your lawyers review

    They amend, advise and file.

    Your lawyers, with Cleveland

Stage four

A question put to the line manager.

Each question says what it goes to. The answer is tested against the documents.

Leonidas: a question addressed to the claimant's line manager, the point it goes to, and the manager typing the answer: The Claimant didn't have any absences, but when he attended work he barely did anything and then was abrasive and difficult when we tried to discuss things with him
Leonidas, working prototype.

The products

A tool for each stage of a dispute.

  • Jesmond

    Internal processes

    Live now, for pioneer clientsjesmond.ai

  • Anita

    Witness proofs

    Takes a witness's proof in their own words, within the rules, and records every question and answer.

    In developmentHow Anita works

  • Cleveland

    Case correspondence

    In development

Built for employment claims and personal injury claims.

Anita

Witness proofs, taken within the rules.

Anita takes a witness's proof of evidence by open question, in the witness's own words, and keeps the record the rules require.

  • Built to comply

    Designed around the rules on witness statements in England and Wales, Practice Direction 32 and Practice Direction 57AC. Open questions, no leading on contested matters, and documents put to the witness only where the rules allow.

  • Proofs, not drafts

    The proof is the witness's recorded words, selected and ordered under headings. Nothing is written, altered or rephrased for them.

  • No facts suggested

    Anita never suggests an account, never says what other witnesses or documents say, and never comments on the answers it is given.

  • A clear record

    Every question and every answer is recorded, word for word and with the time, so the lawyer, and if need be the court, can see exactly what was asked and what was answered.

Compared with instructing solicitors from the start

The firm reviews a complete file rather than building one.

That cuts external legal cost on low and medium value claims.

Who gathers the facts

Solicitors from the startA solicitor, by phone and email, over weeks.

With DefendThisThe people who hold the facts, on a link, in hours.

The first draft

Solicitors from the startDrafted by the firm, billed by the hour.

With DefendThisProduced from tested answers, marked DRAFT.

External legal cost

Solicitors from the startFact-finding and drafting billed before any advice.

With DefendThisCut. The firm reviews rather than builds.

The 28 days, instructing solicitors from the start

Illustrative

  1. Day 7Panel firm instructed
  2. Day 17Witnesses reached
  3. Day 24First draft

The 28 days, with DefendThis

Illustrative

  1. Day 1Links sent
  2. Day 3Answers in
  3. Day 4Draft

The team

Owned and run by practising barristers.

  • Gus Baker

    Co-founder. Outer Temple Chambers

    A very hard-working and very talented barrister who stays calm under pressure and is a great team player.Legal 500, 2026

  • Grahame Anderson

    Co-founder. Littleton Chambers

    Grahame's technical skill and attention to detail are absolutely forensic.Chambers and Partners, 2026

  • David Green

    Co-founder. 12 King's Bench Walk

    David Green is superb on every level.Chambers and Partners, 2026

Security

What goes into DefendThis stays in DefendThis.

Processed in the United Kingdom. Encrypted in transit and at rest. Seen only by your people. Never used for training. Deleted on your schedule. Nothing decided by software.

Information security pack on request from gus@defendthis.co.uk.

Regulation

DefendThis is not a law firm.

Every draft is reviewed by a regulated lawyer before it is filed. The founders practise at the Bar and are regulated by the Bar Standards Board.

Run your next claim with DefendThis.

To discuss a trial, email any of us.

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