Corrections

Reporting an error

Write to contact@beaconlawpartners.com with the article title and, if you can, the specific sentence and the source that shows the problem. You do not need to be a lawyer, and you do not need to be certain — a reader saying "this does not match what the agency's page says" is exactly the report we want.

How we handle it

1. Check against the primary source. Not against our own reasoning, and not against another publication.
2. Fix or leave. If the article is wrong, it is corrected. If it is right, we reply explaining why, with the source.
3. Mark material corrections. Where the error could have led a reader to act wrongly, the article carries a visible correction note describing what was wrong and what it now says. Typographical fixes are made silently.
4. Check the neighbours. A factual error usually appears in more than one article. When we find one, we check every article that touches the same rule.

What counts as what

• Correction — a statement of fact or law was wrong.
• Clarification — the statement was accurate but could reasonably be read the wrong way.
• Update — the law changed after the article was written. This is the most common one, and it is not an error.

Correction log

Material corrections are recorded on the article itself, in the text, where the reader who is actually relying on the passage will see it. We do not keep a separate dated log, because this publication does not display dates — see the explanation in About — and a log without dates would tell you nothing.

Takedown requests

We do not remove accurate, lawfully published information because a subject dislikes it. We do correct inaccuracies, and we will consider removing genuinely private personal information published in error.