Panasar: New layer between public and profession
Groundbreaking technology-only law firm Lawfairy has marked the first successful completion of a case for a consumer, a Swiss national who used it to secure a UK visa.
‘Tony’ obtained an assessment of his application through LawFairy’s platform and then support from a consultant immigration solicitor.
Lawfairy operates a “fully deterministic legal model” and last year became the first of its kind to be authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
The system encodes the law into structured decision pathways to reach an auditable output, in contrast to generative AI, which generates responses by predicting statistically likely text.
The firm reported that Tony approached LawFairy after discovering that his immigration adviser had prepared his application under the wrong visa category, leaving him facing the prospect of refusal after months of expense.
LawFairy’s assessment identified the appropriate route and set out the reasoning behind it. On the same day, it connected him with Jasmine Ashley-Tagoe, a consultant solicitor at Setfords, who identified further unresolved issues and took the corrected application forward to approval in September.
The company said the case showed the model LawFairy was building: “an automated, rules-based assessment at a fixed cost, with specialist solicitors brought in where professional judgement is needed”.
The analysis costs a fixed £149 and applicants choose whether and when to involve a lawyer at a separate cost.
Lawfairy is not planning to offer this legal advice itself. It currently has 12 law firms and a handful of consultant solicitors on its referral panel.
Founder Raj Panasar said: “Many people facing an immigration problem simply can’t afford specialist legal advice at the very start, so they make big decisions without really understanding where they stand.
“LawFairy gives them that first answer for a fixed fee, with the reasoning set out, and connects them with a specialist solicitor when they need one.
“We see ourselves as a new layer between the public and the legal profession, one that brings people to a lawyer’s door better informed, clearer about the work they need and ready to instruct.”
Ms Ashley-Tagoe said: “What makes the tool particularly strong is its ability to quickly identify the correct legal route while also flagging the practical and legal issues that need to be considered…
“It does not simply produce a surface-level answer; it helps focus the legal analysis and identify the issues that require professional judgement.”
Tony said: “I entered my situation into their online assessment and finally got a clear explanation of what had gone wrong and which route I should have been on, with the reasoning laid out so I actually understood it.”
LawFairy covers more than 70 UK immigration and nationality routes. Generative AI supports the interface but does not decide the legal conclusions.
It is still at an early stage with the consumer service while it continues to test the process.
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