Frequently asked questions

JusFund provides assessments and a route to independent professional funders. It does not provide capital or legal, financial or investment advice. Funders make their own decisions and contract directly with you.

Yes. JusFund focuses on arbitration and also welcomes litigation funding enquiries. The current online assessment follows an arbitration framework. For a court claim, contact us with a brief overview of the dispute, jurisdiction and stage to discuss the next step.

JusFund extracts the case record, researches relevant public sources and assesses eight areas. AI writes the reasoning, versioned code calculates the scores, and a second AI model reviews the assessment. You receive the report before deciding whether to list your case.

Case documents are held in private storage and encrypted in transit and at rest. Funders initially see an anonymised summary of a listed case; access to the full report requires your approval and an active NDA. The Privacy Notice explains processing by service providers and authorised staff, as well as access records and retention.

Primary case records and uploaded files are stored through Supabase on AWS infrastructure in Paris, France. Producing an assessment also involves AI, document-reading and other service providers, some operating outside the UK and EU. Processing and any provider retention are separate from primary storage; the Privacy Notice describes these arrangements and international transfers.

The assessment researches the applicable arbitration rules and law of the seat for the case submitted. Coverage depends on the documents and sources available; missing or uncertain information should be identified in the report. Contact us if you want to check suitability before submitting.

We welcome public-interest funding enquiries. NGO and NPO fund seekers can list with all approved funders without the USD 199 charge or the 5% JusFund platform fee, subject to confirmation of their organisation’s status. Independent funders still decide whether to offer funding and on what terms. Contact us to check whether the exemption applies to your organisation.

Start with an assessment of your arbitration claim. If you list it, approved professional funders can view an anonymised summary. You decide which funders can read the full report under an NDA. Listing does not guarantee an offer.

JusFund does not set a minimum claim value for assessment. Submission and listing requirements still apply, and each funder has its own investment criteria. A smaller claim can be assessed without a promise that funding will be available.

Start with the request for arbitration or pleadings, the arbitration agreement and key correspondence. Add relevant witness statements, expert reports, procedural orders and damages calculations. Readable scans are accepted. The submission form also asks for case details and eligibility confirmations.

Your first assessment is free: one per account, including re-runs after you add material. Listing to up to three matched funders is free, subject to suitable funders being available. Wider listing costs USD 199. A separate 5% platform fee applies on terms agreed in writing before it becomes due. NGO and NPO fund seekers pay neither the wider-listing charge nor the 5% platform fee. See Pricing for the details.

Funders see your case only after you choose to list it. Access starts with an anonymised summary; the full report requires your approval and an active NDA. Service providers and authorised JusFund staff may process case data to run the service, as described in the Privacy Notice.

A private negotiation room opens for you and that funder as soon as the NDA is active, one room for each funder. The funder’s questions, your answers, documents and the terms of the deal are exchanged there. JusFund does not pass email addresses or telephone numbers between the two sides. For a call, agree a time in the room and post a meeting link.

Nothing in the room is binding. When every term is agreed, the room draws up heads of terms for both sides’ lawyers, subject to a signed funding agreement. One term is fixed by the platform and cannot be changed or left out: the JusFund platform fee. JusFund does not advise on the terms or rank offers.

Under non-recourse funding, repayment to the funder generally depends on recovery. Your agreement determines the conditions and exceptions. Check separately how unpaid legal fees, adverse costs and any insurance are handled; do not assume every cost is covered. JusFund is not a party to the funding agreement.

For 24 months after an introduction, the existing terms require case-related funding, purchase, assignment or monetisation with the introduced funder to go through JusFund, unless LexQuity gives prior written consent. You must notify LexQuity within 14 days of agreeing an arrangement. Meetings and diligence are permitted.

The terms provide for a breach fee of 2% of the funding commitment, or the service fee published at the introduction if higher, and permanent account removal. Read the full terms and the undertaking presented to you before accepting.

Use the assessment to review a client’s arbitration claim, identify evidence gaps and prepare for funding discussions. Your firm checks the findings and advises the client. For a litigation funding enquiry, contact us with the dispute type, jurisdiction and stage.

Yes, through the counsel or representative option in fund-seeker registration. Confirm your authority to upload the record, list the case and approve disclosure. The account managing the case controls those actions; agree the client’s instructions before proceeding.

The current registration route uses an account held by an authorised person acting for the client. It does not create a shared firm workspace with staff permissions or a firm-wide portfolio view. Contact us to discuss how your team intends to manage cases.

Your firm carries out its own conflict checks and decides what it may disclose under the client’s instructions and applicable duties. Funder verification and an NDA do not replace those checks or establish privilege. Resolve any concern before sharing identifying information or documents.

The fund-seeker pricing applies to this route: the first assessment of one case per account is free, including re-runs after adding material. Listing and platform charges are set out on Pricing. Agree with the client who will pay any applicable charge; your firm’s fees and the funder’s return are separate.

The report brings together the band, percentage, range and confidence, with written findings, risks, information requests and evidence references. It provides a starting point for your own diligence.

Before requesting full access, you can review the listed case’s anonymised summary: the dispute, sector, seat, evidence position, principal risks and funding economics. The summary is prepared from the assessment and checked for identifying information.

Request access for a specific case. The fund seeker’s approval and an active NDA are required to read the full report. The standard NDA records both parties’ acceptance; an alternative NDA follows the platform’s approval process. A negotiation room for you and the fund seeker opens at the same moment.

In the negotiation room that opens when your NDA on a case becomes active. Ask questions, exchange documents and propose terms there. A term is agreed when both sides have accepted the same version, and the room then draws up heads of terms for the lawyers. One term is fixed by the platform: the JusFund platform fee.

You see only your own room. The fund seeker may share one of its answers with every funder on the case, without naming the funder that asked. Contact details are not exchanged, and everything in the room is subject to contract.

Verified professional funders, including regulated fund managers, institutional allocators, law-firm-affiliated funds and self-certified professional investors. It is not open to retail investors. Access follows the platform’s eligibility and verification review.

You and the fund seeker agree the funding terms. Returns may be based on a multiple of capital, a share of recovery or a combination; timing and other conditions can affect the amount. JusFund does not set those terms or become a party to the funding agreement.

You accept confidentiality obligations under the applicable NDA and the Funder Undertaking. Case information is for evaluating funding; the undertaking also restricts identification of anonymised parties and approaches to specified people connected to the dispute.

For 24 months after an introduction, case-related arrangements with the fund seeker must go through JusFund unless LexQuity gives prior written consent. Notify LexQuity within 14 days of agreement. Meetings and diligence are allowed. Breach can trigger the stated introduction fee and permanent removal; read the full terms and undertaking before accepting.

Legal merits, evidence, damages, procedure and jurisdiction, enforcement, counterparty finances, tribunal and forum, and external or strategic risks. Explore the areas below or read the funding review guide for practical examples.

Read, research, assess and score, verify, then review. The framework below explains each stage and how it contributes to the report.

No. The percentage is an assessment produced by the scoring framework from the available record and sources. It is not a statistically calibrated probability of winning. Read it with the band, range, confidence and written findings; it does not guarantee an outcome or funding.

The report includes area-level reasoning, evidence references, information gaps, the scoring-framework version and verification findings. Review those findings alongside the score. A second-model check can identify problems, but it does not establish that every statement is correct.

It cannot establish facts that are absent from the record, replace legal advice or a funder’s diligence, or guarantee recovery. Public information about assets may be incomplete. The framework is checked for internal consistency but is not statistically calibrated against a representative set of concluded cases.