What Lingstone is — and what it is not
Lingstone takes the legislation of England and Wales and builds exercises on top of it. You read a set of facts, find the provision that governs them, take a position and reach a verdict. That is the whole of it.
It is not a school. Lingstone is not an accredited or registered education provider, holds no teaching or training licence, and awards no degree, diploma, certificate or professional qualification. Nothing you complete here counts towards one, and nothing here is approved by a regulator, a university or a professional body.
It is not legal advice. Nothing on this site is advice, and using it creates no solicitor–client relationship. The exercises are written to teach reasoning; no outcome in them predicts what a court would decide. If you have a real legal problem, instruct a qualified lawyer.
Treat it as a starting point, not an authority. We work from primary sources and cite real statutes and decided cases, but a paraphrase is not the provision itself, wording here may be imprecise or simplified for teaching, and the law changes while the text stays still. Anything that matters to you must be checked against the legislation and the judgments themselves.
If you spot something wrong, tell us — it will be fixed faster than it would be anywhere else.
Accepting these terms
You accept these terms and the Privacy Policy when you create an account — the sign-up form asks you to tick a box, and will not proceed without it.
We record the date you accepted and which version you accepted, because data protection law requires us to be able to show that consent was given, not merely to claim it.
If you only browse the public pages without an account, these terms still govern that use.
Your account
One person, one account. Keep your password to yourself — anything done through your account is treated as done by you.
Give a real email address: it is how you verify the account and how you recover it.
You can delete your account at any time from Profile → Account. We can suspend an account that is being used to break these terms.
What you may not do
Copy the course content and republish it as your own. The cases, the questions and the explanations were written for Lingstone and remain ours.
Scrape the site automatically, attack it, or try to reach other people's accounts.
Resell access, or share one account across a group.
What stays yours
Your progress is yours. You can take it with you by deleting the account — or just by not using it. We claim nothing over anything you write.
The site is provided as it is
We try to keep Lingstone running and correct, but we do not promise that it will always be available, or free of errors, or right about every point of law.
To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for loss arising from using the site — in particular, from relying on it as legal advice, which it is not.
Payment
Everything currently on this site is free. If paid features appear, their price and terms will be shown before you pay, and these terms will be updated to cover them.
Changes and governing law
We may update these terms; the date at the top shows when. Continuing to use Lingstone after a change means you accept it.
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales.
Questions: privacy@lingstone.app.