About
Built for Western Australian resources compliance.
Ore Law is developed by Solaris Software in Perth, Western Australia. The platform is being built by Joshua Macmaster, a lawyer working in the mining and resources sector, to help teams manage compliance work with greater clarity and efficiency.
This project is in alpha and is not ready to be relied on.
If you spot problems or have suggestions, please email [email protected] .
What we do
A serious platform for fragmented work.
Court communication in Western Australia is fragmented across registrar emails, PDF cause lists, RSS feeds, and informal practitioner expectations. Calendars are treated as operational truth even when legally provisional.
Ore Law models this uncertainty, revision, and competing sources of truth instead of pretending everything is static. The system preserves history, tracks where listings came from, and maintains auditability so teams can see what changed, when, and why.
The platform serves senior lawyers who need calendars that work and PDFs that resemble real court documents; administration staff who require tools that replace manual coordination rather than adding process; and junior lawyers who need structured, explorable data with watchlists and change histories.
Principles
How we approach the problem
Revision over mutation
Listings change. Court dates shift. Cause lists are re-issued. The system preserves a complete history of changes rather than silently overwriting data.
Uncertainty as first-class state
Draft versus Final is not a boolean truth. The system tracks confidence levels, sources, and provisional states rather than forcing premature certainty.
Source-aware data
Every listing carries its provenance: PDF cause list, RSS feed, manual entry, or court communication. Users always know where information originated.
Auditability
Junior users and compliance officers must be able to see what changed, when it changed, and who made the change. Complete audit trails are non-negotiable.
Operational truth first
The calendar your team relies on matters more than the official label. The system respects how practitioners actually work rather than forcing compliance with a theoretical ideal.
Party-centric design
Users primarily reason about listings by party name, not tenement numbers or dealing IDs. Every interface is optimised to make party names the most prominent piece of information.
Feedback
Help us build what you need.
The fastest way to improve Ore Law is to send real workflow examples: how you manage cause lists today, what your calendar conventions are, and which parts routinely go wrong.