About
Built by UK law students, for every UK law student.
The study platform we wished existed when we started our law degree, so we built it.
Too much information.
No guidance on what to do with it.
We started a law degree and within the first week the real problem became clear. It wasn't that the content was too hard - it was that there was an overwhelming amount of it and absolutely no roadmap for how to get through it. Hundreds of cases per module. Dozens of statutes. Seven foundation subjects running in parallel. Career deadlines landing before you've even figured out what a training contract is.
Nobody tells you how to actually study law.You're handed a reading list, pointed towards the library, and expected to work it out. There's no system for organising what you've read, no way to test yourself against real exam formats, and no single place where cases, statutes, notes, flashcards, and career deadlines live together. So you cobble it together yourself - Anki for flashcards, Westlaw for cases, a spreadsheet for applications, Notion for notes - and spend more time switching between tools than actually learning.
This isn't a GDL problem or an LLB problem. Every law student we've spoken to runs some version of this setup. Whether you're a first-year undergraduate or a career-changer doing the conversion, the information load is the same and the support is minimal.You're on your own, figuring it out from scratch, under time pressure.
Obiter exists to fix that. One platform where everything a UK law student needs lives in one place - structured, searchable, and designed for the way law actually works.
What's in it today
Every feature ships because a UK law student actually needs it - not because it looks good on a feature grid.
Search UK cases, statutes, and concepts in one place
AI-generated SBAQs and essay practice with feedback
Flashcards with spaced repetition tuned for case law
Daily legal news from 10+ sources, filtered by topic
Career Hub with training contracts, vac schemes, and pupillages
Dashboard, calendar, study timer, grades — the whole desk
Obiter's Values
No fake social proof. No fabricated student counts. No partnerships that don't exist. We ship updates openly and we read every message sent to hello@obiter.site.
Honest pricing
A real free tier that is genuinely useful, not a demo with a paywall.
Student-first
Every feature exists because a UK law student actually needs it.
No AI slop
Obiter AI cites real authorities from its own database — no hallucinated cases.
UK-first
Built for UK law degrees and the SQE, not a US product with a UK skin.
Where this is going
A clear path from alpha to launch and beyond.
Now
Closed alpha
Rebuilding from student feedback weekly.
May 2026
Public launch
All tiers live from day one.
After launch
What students ask for
SQE prep, collaborative notes, and whatever comes next.
Be there at launch.
Priority access when Obiter goes live in May 2026.