The paper presents the technical and legal issues that an electronic legal search services has to face while dealing with the problem of missing, unreliable or quasi-official legal data. Technically the problem requires the sifting of acquired legal texts in terms of importance and reliability, and coming up with user friendly matrices and expressions to present information to the researcher that conveys texts with their accompanying degrees of ambiguities, their varying reliability and their connections to other texts in the “corpus.” Ultimately the aim is to formulate and delineate (for the user) the limits of reliability of any given legal electronic information. Moreover the initiatives carried on by the authors' on line legal service (Kanunum) to make more legal texts available electronically in Turkey from the official hand that produced these texts and actions are presented.