GetLawED — Verified South African Law
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Search official South African law, quote the exact section and check case citations.
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- Streamable HTTP · MCP 2025-06-18
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3 toolslegal_get_sectionRead a section of South African lawRead-onlyIdempotentInspect
Full text of one document section from the GetLawED library — use it to read and quote the exact provision found by legal_library_search (give the doc_id and the section reference it returned). For judgments, returns the judgment text (or the part matching "section", e.g. a paragraph number or phrase), capped at 12 000 characters.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| doc_id | Yes | doc_id from legal_library_search | |
| section | No | Section reference as returned (e.g. "Section 34: Structures") or a section number like "34"; optional for judgments |
legal_library_searchSearch South African lawRead-onlyIdempotentInspect
Search GetLawED's library of official South African legal texts (Constitutional Court, SCA, High Court, Labour, Land, Tax and tribunal judgments; Acts; regulations, rules and codes issued under them; municipal by-laws and land use schemes; Bills; Government Gazettes). Returns matching documents with the best-matching section reference where the text is split into sections, a short passage and the official source link. Absence from the library does not mean an authority does not exist.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | No | Maximum results, 1-10 (default 5) | |
| query | Yes | What to look for, in plain language (e.g. "business rescue post-commencement tax debt") | |
| doc_type | No | Limit to one kind of document: regulation = regulations, rules and codes; bylaw = municipal by-laws and land use schemes (default: judgment, act and regulation) |
legal_verify_citationsCheck South African citationsRead-onlyIdempotentInspect
Check the South African case citations and Acts in a piece of text against GetLawED's library of official copies and verified records. Each item comes back as found, mismatch (the citation belongs to a different case), name_only, not_found, repealed or unchecked. "not_found"/"unchecked" means "check the law reports", not "fake".
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| text | Yes | The text containing citations (max 20 000 characters) |
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