About Annota
Industrial Court awards are the best guide to how a dismissal dispute will go in Malaysia. They are also long, dense and hard to search. Annota makes them quick to find and quick to read.
Built with practitioners
Annota started with a Malaysian industrial-relations practitioner’s own research method: a Termination Index of the grounds of dismissal and five types of misconduct, and seven headings for reading any award. Annota applies that method to the published dismissal awards.
How the awards are read
- Source. Dismissal awards published by the Industrial Court of Malaysia on mp.gov.my, from 2003 to today (a few scans too poor to read are left out). New awards are added as the court publishes them.
- Reading. An AI model reads each award in full (scanned awards are converted to text first). Each award is read at least twice. Where the readings disagree on a ground or the outcome, the award’s page says so and the outcome statistics leave it out.
- Evidence. Classifications and headings point to the paragraphs they rely on, with a quote from the award where one was found in it. Each point of the full summary shows its paragraphs, and any figure in it (an amount, a date, a number of months) must appear in the award, or the point is left out. The quote shown to you is always the court’s exact words; a quote that cannot be found in the award is not shown.
- Numbers. Each award’s outcome and remedy are read by AI; outcome rates and typical backwages are then counted from those readings by ordinary code, never estimated by AI.
- Checking. Samples are compared against independent readings, and errors reported from inside the app are reviewed and fixed.
What Annota is not
It is not legal advice, and it is not a law firm. Summaries can contain mistakes, so the full award is always one tap away and is the final word. For advice on a live matter, speak to an IR practitioner or lawyer.
Contact
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