How does Spat Court work?
You describe a small, everyday dispute and summon the other side. Until the date you pick, they can answer and friends can take sides. Then the court reads everything and issues a written ruling.
From complaint to judgment
File a case.
Give your first name, theirs, what happened in up to 600 characters, and their email if you want the court to summon them. The court removes surnames, phone numbers, emails and addresses before anyone reads it.
The hearing opens.
The court checks that this is a small, everyday dispute, then opens the hearing for 1 hour, 24 hours or 3 days. The other side answers and both of you can add to the record. Friends with the link take sides as witnesses, without an account.
The court rules.
At the deadline, or sooner if both sides rest, the court reads the claim, the defense and the witnesses and rules: guilty, not guilty, both at fault, or dismissed. The crowd does not decide the case; the facts do.
The loser can appeal.
Whoever lost can take it to the Court of Appeal. The other side gets a day to reply, then the ruling is final.
The whole case stays on file.
The case file keeps everything that was said and decided, in order. Anyone named in a case can remove it in two taps.
What the court will not hear
Violence, threats, self-harm, anything sexual, real legal, medical, money or workplace disputes with real consequences, attacks on anyone's identity, and cases filed to humiliate someone in public. The court only hears the petty kind.