Your Rights Shield is developing free public legal information infrastructure for people in England and Wales who cannot access or afford professional legal advice. Six tools have been built. Governance and compliance are underway. Public launch follows institutional review.
Each tool walks through a person's situation step by step, identifies the relevant legislation, and shows clearly where they stand. The tools are developed and complete — preparing for responsible public launch through institutional review and governance sign-off.
Covers National Minimum Wage compliance, payslip deductions, sleep-in shifts, holiday pay, rest breaks, and working time rights. Identifies potential violations with full legislative references and HOW ASSESSED methodology.
Covers the Renters' Rights Act 2025, deposit protection, disrepair obligations, illegal eviction, landlord entry rights, and Section 8 possession grounds. Updated for current law.
Covers Universal Credit, PIP, Carer's Allowance, Housing Benefit, Local Housing Allowance, and mandatory reconsideration. Updated for 2026 rates and the UC health element changes.
Covers statute-barred debts, Breathing Space, FCA Consumer Duty obligations on creditors, bailiff rights, and what creditors can and cannot legally do. Plain-language legislative references throughout.
Covers council tax banding accuracy, single person discount, disability reduction, student exemptions, and VOA appeal pathways. Identifies discounts and exemptions that are routinely missed.
Covers claim eligibility, court fee calculation, limitation periods, Letter Before Claim requirements and enforcement options. Helps people understand whether court action is viable before committing.
Legal advice is expensive, inaccessible, and often unavailable when you need it most. Advice organisations across England and Wales face increasing demand. Most people give up on their rights before they even understand what they are entitled to.
Your Rights Shield exists to change that. We build free legal information tools based on current legislation and transparent methodology — helping people understand their situation clearly, in plain English, with the legislation cited — before they ever need to speak to an adviser.
We are a Charitable Incorporated Organisation in registration in England and Wales. Our tools are and will always be free. We are completing governance and compliance steps before public release.
View Our Roadmap →Every finding shows the legislation it's based on. No black boxes. No unexplained results. You can see exactly how the conclusion was reached.
Every tool is maintained against current statute. When the law changes, the tools change. Rates, thresholds and procedures are updated as they take effect.
No account required. No personal data collected unless you choose to share it. Analytics are fully anonymous. Your check is your business.
Our proposed charitable model is built around keeping public access free. That is not a commercial decision — it is a structural and ethical one baked into the organisation from the outset.
Shield Engine is the adviser dashboard that connects public legal information intake to structured case management. It is the strongest institutional asset we have — and you can explore it right now.
When someone uses a public tool and flags a potential legal issue, a structured pre-triaged case record is generated automatically. That record includes the legislation applied, the assessment methodology, the severity, and the recommended next steps — ready for an adviser to act on without manual data entry.
Six tools covering employment, housing, welfare, debt, council tax, and small claims are in development and approaching public launch. When live, they will be completely free, require no account, and explain every finding in plain English with the legislation cited.
View the Tools Below ↓Advice charities, law clinics, trade unions, and local authorities can explore Shield Engine today. The sandbox demonstrates how public intake becomes structured adviser-ready case records — reducing first-appointment preparation time significantly.
Open Sandbox →Law clinics can participate in independent methodology review. Academics and researchers can engage with anonymised data on patterns of legal need. Students can engage with live public-interest legal infrastructure through placement and pro bono activity.
Discuss a Partnership →We are not asking anyone to trust infrastructure we have not verified. This is our current position.
The platform was designed from the outset around data minimisation, transparent methodology, and auditability. These are not add-ons — they are architectural decisions.
Public tools require no registration, no email, and no identifying information to produce a result. All processing is client-side in the user's browser.
Usage analytics contain no IP addresses, device identifiers, or user identifiers. They cannot be linked to any individual — structurally anonymous by design.
Every finding discloses the specific legislation applied, the calculation performed, and the legal standard used. Every output is auditable, reproducible, and defensible.
Database hosted in Ireland (Supabase EU-West-1). All domains served over HTTPS. Row-level security enforced at database layer. SOC 2 Type II certified processors.
Shield Engine maintains full audit logs of all case actions, status changes, and adviser activity. Governance accountability is built into the architecture.
Rates, thresholds, and statutory references are maintained as the law changes. No tool is released without verified, current legislative references throughout.
Your Rights Shield is designed to embed alongside the organisations already serving people who need help — not to replace them or compete with them. We provide structured public-intake infrastructure; partner organisations provide the expertise, relationships, and regulated advice.
Embed tools alongside your clinic's services. Clients arrive pre-triaged, reducing the first-appointment workload on supervisors and students.
Citizens Advice, law centres, and independent advice services. We help the people who can't get through the door.
Provide members with instant access to employment rights information. Shift Shield was built with shift workers in mind.
Housing, council tax and benefits tools embedded in council websites. Help residents understand their rights before they need a caseworker.
Independent methodology review, research using anonymised patterns of legal need, student engagement through placement and pro bono activity, and clinical legal education integration.
Food banks, housing associations, GP surgeries. Anywhere people in difficult situations ask for help.
A charitable organisation in registration in England and Wales. Founded by Matthew Foreman. Built on the principle that access to legal information should not depend on your ability to pay for it.