How These Pages Are Reviewed
Country records and older sourced pages carry a review stamp with a date and a source count. The newer research guides instead show source-check dates from a separate evidence packet. The methods below explain the difference. Neither date is a legal opinion or a promise that the law remains unchanged.
Country records and older sourced pages
A check runs over the four facts at the head of a country page, the citations under it, and the links out of it. Each fact either names the record it rests on or reads not established. Each record names a document stored alongside this site and quotes the passage relied on, and every quote is compared against those bytes before a change here is published. A quote that no longer matches stops the change.
What is not checked is the larger part. The rest of a linked site is not reviewed, only the passage taken from it. Nothing is checked against a commercial database, because there is no subscription here.
Research guides and their evidence packet
The newer research guides link claims to named sources within the text. They may use university explanations for orientation as well as official legal sources. Secondary explanations are labeled as such and are not treated as binding law. Each source entry states what the source can and cannot support.
Source captures and the passages consulted are retained separately. The guide evidence packet records retrieval dates, URLs, hashes, reviewed passages and limits. Automated checks compare the guide citations and source details with that packet. They check recorded hashes for consistency rather than rehashing the retained captures. They do not re-fetch the law or prove that a claim is correct.
A source-check date means the source was fetched on that date. It is not the Reviewed stamp used by the older records, a licensed legal review, or verification that a translation is current. Readers must check current authoritative texts before relying on them.
How often
A page is looked at again when a document behind it changes, and in any case once a year. That is the intention; the stamp is the record of what happened. A date more than a year old means the intention was not met, and the page shows it rather than a date generated at build time. No date here comes from a clock.
Why a field can read not established
Six fields across twenty country pages currently read not established. That is a result, not a hole: the point was looked for, the document that would settle it could not be read, and the field says so rather than carrying something plausible found elsewhere. Each of the six names what would settle it.
The alternative is worse than it looks on the page. A guessed gazette title is indistinguishable, once printed, from a sourced one.
What the date does not assert
The stamp says the sources were read again that day and that the machine checks passed. It does not say the law is unchanged, that the linked services still serve what they served, or that the reading is correct. The check proves a passage exists in a document and was read. It cannot prove the passage supports the sentence written from it, and that is where an error will sit.
Reporting an error
Corrections go through the contact page, and what makes one actionable is a source. The address of a document saying otherwise is enough to work from, and a passage from it is better. A report that a page is wrong without saying what it is wrong against cannot be checked.
This page cites nothing, because it describes the practice of this site and nothing else.
Where a correction goes
- Contact and correctionsThe page that takes a report about anything on this site.
Reviewed 2026-10-03. 0 sources cited on this page.