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Guides to searching, analysing and verifying the case law of international administrative tribunals on IAT Search.
Getting Started
What IAT Search is, how to get access and what the corpus covers.
- What is IAT Search?IAT Search is an AI-assisted legal research platform for the case law of international administrative tribunals — the bodies that resolve employment disputes between international…
- How to get access and create your accountGetting started with IAT Search is self-service. Open admintribunals.com and choose Create account.
- Signing inYou can sign in three ways, from admintribunals.com:
- Which tribunals and organizations are coveredIAT Search currently covers 12 international administrative tribunals:
Researching with IAT Search
Search, AI-assisted analysis, doctrinal timelines and citation checking.
- Searching case lawIAT Search offers two complementary ways to search within a tribunal:
- Using the Legal Research Assistant (RAG)The Legal Research Assistant lets you ask a question in plain language — for example, "What is the time limit to file an appeal, and how have tribunals treated late filings?" — and…
- Building a doctrinal timelineA Doctrinal timeline shows how a legal principle has developed across a line of cases. Enter a doctrinal question or topic, and IAT Search assembles the relevant judgments in…
- Verifying a brief's citations (Brief Accuracy Check)Use it to catch mis-citations and overstated propositions — your own or an opponent's — before they reach a hearing.
- Consulting the legal frameworkFor most tribunals, IAT Search also indexes the governing legal framework — Statutes, Rules of Procedure, Practice Directions, Codes of Conduct and related instruments.
- Researching across tribunalsInternational administrative tribunals frequently reason from one another's case law. The cross-tribunal option lets you take a research question grounded in one tribunal and ask how…
- Jumping to a specific judgmentIf you already know the reference, use the jump form to go straight to a judgment by its number or case identifier.
- Saving judgments and using your research historyYou can attach one or more tags to any item in your research history — for example a client or matter name, a doctrine, or a case reference. Open a history item and add tags to it;
- AI summary of a judgmentAn AI summary gives you a structured, plain-language digest of a single judgment, so you can decide quickly whether it is relevant without reading the full text first.
- The analysis viewer toolbarWhen an analysis from the Legal Research Assistant is open — whether you have just run it or reopened it from your history — the right-hand panel carries a small toolbar of tools for…
- Filtering and sorting your resultsWhen you search or browse a tribunal, IAT Search gives you several ways to narrow the results and change their order. The available options adapt to the tribunal you are viewing.
Plans & Billing
Plans, usage limits, invoices and managing your subscription.
- Plans and what each includesIAT Search offers three subscription plans:
- How usage limits workThe platform features (search, filters, reading judgments, PDFs, saving and history) are available without a usage cap.
- Managing or cancelling your subscriptionPayments and subscriptions are handled securely by Paddle, our payment provider and Merchant of Record.
- Billing, invoices, VAT and refundsYou can cancel at any time from the subscription management page in the app, or from the receipt link Paddle sends you.
Account & Security
Your account settings, sessions and how your data is handled.
- Account settingsFrom your account you can set your default tribunal (the one IAT Search opens on), your interface language (English or French), and your default sort order and results per page.
- Sessions, signing out and password resetFor security, IAT Search uses a few session rules:
- Your data, privacy and confidentialityFull details are in the Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy at admintribunals.com.
Troubleshooting & Good to Know
What the AI notices mean, sign-in problems and the limits of AI.
- "This response may be incomplete" and other AI noticesOccasionally a Legal Research Assistant answer may be flagged as possibly incomplete. This happens when the response reaches its length limit before fully finishing.
- Common sign-in problemsIf none of these fit, contact support@admintribunals.com with the email address on your account and a short description.
- Accuracy, verification and the limits of AIIAT Search is an AI-assisted research tool, not a substitute for professional legal judgment, and its analyses do not constitute legal advice.
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