Avokata: Lithuanian law for your agent

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Sign-in required: call connect(email) and connect_verify first (free, one email) unless this connection is already signed in. Is this act in force (galioja), and which consolidated version (suvestinė redakcija) governed on a given date. Pass on_date to ask about the past (įsigaliojimo data). Name the act with ONE of: `document_id` (the `id` of a search hit; an article id with `#` answers about its act) or `act_number` (the register number `XII-2603`, or a code abbreviation `DK`, `CK`). An act you know only by its title: search_law first and take the id. Validity is a property of the act, not of an article: for an article's wording on a date use read_paragraphs with `on_date`, for what changed use compare_provision_versions. A validity answer does not verify a quotation; use verify_citation for that. Example arguments: {"act_number": "DK", "on_date": "2024-01-15"}.

Sign-in required: call connect(email) and connect_verify first (free, one email) unless this connection is already signed in. What this document relies on (cituoja): the acts (įstatymai) and earlier rulings (nutartys) it cites, with the text of each citation so you can check it.

Sign-in required: call connect(email) and connect_verify first (free, one email) unless this connection is already signed in. The citator (citavimo grafas): what has cited this provision (straipsnis) or ruling (nutartis) since: a reverse lookup that full-text search cannot do. Name the subject in ONE of three ways: a ruling by `case_no` (`e3K-3-117-823/2023`); a provision by `act_number` + `pinpoint` (`act_number='CK', pinpoint='6.217'`); or any search hit by its `document_id` (an article id with `#` needs no pinpoint). A citation string is not a parameter: split it into those parts. These are citations, not endorsements: whether the citing court agreed is not recorded. For citations this document itself makes, use citations_of instead. Example arguments: {"act_number": "CK", "pinpoint": "6.217", "limit": 10}.

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Sign-in required: call connect(email) and connect_verify first (free, one email) unless this connection is already signed in. First instance through cassation (pirmoji / apeliacinė / kasacinė instancija) for one matter: group held rulings (nutartys) by proceeding number (teisminio proceso numeris) and return them in date order with court level. Pass `case_no` for one judgment or `proceeding_no` when you have the register number. Finality is not inferred — the answer says `unknown` honestly.

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Sign-in required: call connect(email) and connect_verify first (free, one email) unless this connection is already signed in. Check a citation SOMEBODY ELSE produced - a model, an opposing brief, a draft memo. Answers three questions separately and never merges them: does the provision (straipsnis) or the case (byla / nutartis) exist, does it actually say the sentence attributed to it (pass `quote`), and is the act still in force (galioja). A case this corpus does not hold is reported as not held, never as non-existent. ONE citation per call, as written: `CK 6.217 str. 2 d.`, `XII-2603 58 str.`, `e3K-3-105-684/2019, 40 p.`; for a list, call once per citation. An act without an article (`XII-2603` alone) is not a pinpoint: the answer names the act and how to read the article. Pass `on_date` for the relevant date and copy the attributed sentence into `quote`; without a quote this does not check the sentence somebody wrote. Missing dated wording is not confirmation. Example arguments: {"citation": "CK 6.217 str. 2 d.", "on_date": "2024-01-15"}.

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Sign-in required: call connect(email) and connect_verify first (free, one email) unless this connection is already signed in. What changed in an act (or one article) between two dates: the version in force on from_date (the baseline) against the one on to_date, and every change that took effect in between, each with its own įsigaliojimo data. Any window works. Returns version metadata and register links. With `article`, held editions also supply its wording on both dates and a word-level redline; missing wording is reported as not held, never reconstructed from register notes.

What this service holds and how complete it is: every source with its date, coverage per legal area with the thin ones named (Constitutional Court, CJEU, first-instance criminal judgments, secondary legislation), the court hierarchy, each court's case-number formats and the EU-governed areas whose EU acts search_law also reads. Call it before telling a user that nothing exists on a topic.

Sign-in required: call connect(email) and connect_verify first (free, one email) unless this connection is already signed in. For multi-step work, find a proposed method to compare with existing practice: checking whether a ruling or a provision still holds, a memo with sources, a matter digest, procedure and deadlines, what an article said on a date. The user's own workflows first, then Avokata's. Returns the best matches with why they fit, or that none fits and how to write one. Shipped plans are builder drafts, not professionally validated. Use, adapt, supplement or skip; a single lookup needs no setup. Cheap: no search is run.

Sign-in required: call connect(email) and connect_verify first (free, one email) unless this connection is already signed in. A document's identity and its table of contents (turinys), WITHOUT its text. Call this before reading: the Civil Code (Civilinis kodeksas) runs to 1.7 million characters. Ids come from search results (įstatymas or nutartis). An ECHR id (`coe.hudoc:`) or application number gives the case's catalogue card: Avokata holds no ECHR text - read it at `text_availability.where` (HUDOC).

Sign-in required: call connect(email) and connect_verify first (free, one email) unless this connection is already signed in. Open one workflow as a PLAN bound to the task: the ordered tool calls with the act number, case number or date from `task` filled in and every other slot left open, the principles and what the result looks like. Sizes cover the complete JSON payload; the 2,000-character target is advisory and safeguards are never cut. Compare with existing instructions: use, adapt, supplement or skip. You run applicable steps yourself. Pass the `workflow_id` returned by find_workflow or list_workflows: `task` binds the plan's slots and does not replace that id. `detail='full'` adds prose; follow any explicit conditional full-read requirement. Example arguments: {"workflow_id": "provision-history", "task": "CK 6.217, 2024-01-15", "detail": "plan"}.

Sign-in required: call connect(email) and connect_verify first (free, one email) unless this connection is already signed in. EVERY held ruling (nutartis) matching structured filters - court level (teismo instancija), court, date range, topic, case type - newest first, with the exact total and counts by level and year, page by page to the end (`next_cursor`). Use it when the job is 'all of them': all regional labour rulings since a date, every Constitutional Court ruling of a year. Every row says the ruling's outcome (granted, dismissed, partly, remanded...) with its operative words; `outcome` lists only the rulings decided that way. search_practice RANKS passages by a question and stops at a limit; this lists. At least one filter is required.

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Sign-in required: call connect(email) and connect_verify first (free, one email) unless this connection is already signed in. Read a document by its own structure: give a pinpoint (straipsnis) like '6.38' for one article, or from_unit and count to page through it. On a ruling (nutartis / sprendimas), pass ruling_part=disposition to read only the operative order (rezoliucinė dalis). Never by character offset (read_source_text reads the publisher's text that way, without our structure). `document_id` is required and comes from a result: a search hit's `id` (an article id with `#` opens at that article) or `document.id`; a case number or an act number is not an id (find it with search_practice / search_law first). Page size is `count`; there is no `limit` or `max_chars` here. `paragraphs` contain the served text; inspect its `version`/`wording` qualifications before calling it current law. `on_date` requests separate `wording_on_date`, whose held/composed/missing evidence must support any historical claim. A # unit or pinpoint overrides `from_unit`. For whole-document paging, continue an unfiltered read as shown below. ECHR cases (`coe.hudoc:`) have no paragraphs here: the answer is the case card and its HUDOC link. Example arguments: {"document_id": "<document_id from search result>", "pinpoint": "6.217", "count": 1, "on_date": "2024-01-15"}. Replace the first bracketed document_id with the id returned by your search. To continue an unfiltered read, use its response document_id without a # fragment, set from_unit to its next_from_unit, omit pinpoint/article, and keep other filters. A next_from_unit from a pinpoint-filtered read is not a whole-document offset. Continuation arguments: {"document_id": "<document_id from previous read>", "from_unit": 14, "count": 3, "on_date": "2024-01-15"}.

Sign-in required: call connect(email) and connect_verify first (free, one email) unless this connection is already signed in. The document's text exactly as the publisher published it (šaltinio tekstas), paged by character offset, with none of our sections, voice labels or units: the source our structure is built on. Read it to check us when a read's `structure_check` says `verify`, when a section or speaker label looks wrong, or before you rely on whose words a passage is. Each page gives the publisher's link, the text's sha256, how the text is held (`raw_basis`) and the units of ours it overlaps (`units_here`), so you can cross-check our structure. Continue with `next_from_char`. If our structure is wrong, say so: submit_feedback(kind='structure'). ECHR cases (`coe.hudoc:`) have no text here: the answer says so and gives the HUDOC link. Example arguments: {"document_id": "<document_id or unit id from a result>", "from_char": 0, "max_chars": 6000}.

Sign-in required: call connect(email) and connect_verify first (free, one email) unless this connection is already signed in. Find the statutory provision (teisės akto straipsnis) that governs a question. PASS THE QUERY IN THE LANGUAGE THE LAW IS WRITTEN IN. Lithuanian law: in Lithuanian. An English query is not translated for you and does not work - measured 2026-08-28 on 23 questions a lawyer had answered from the corpus, Lithuanian found the confirmed article for 10 of them and English for 0, and the English attempts did not come back empty, they came back wrong. If the user writes in another language, translate INTO Lithuanian and use the term of art a Lithuanian lawyer would type: ieškinio senaties terminas, darbo sutarties nutraukimas, nuomos sutartis, servitutas, juridinio asmens pertvarkymas. EU and international acts: Lithuanian where a Lithuanian text is held, else the source language; every result says its `lang`, and a translation you give the user is labelled as yours with its source. Searches acts and codes (įstatymai ir kodeksai) in the consolidated version in force now. Returns pinpoints (article numbers), not summaries. Follow up with read_paragraphs to read the text, or cited_by to see how the courts have read it. `jurisdictions` accepts several for a matter that spans countries. **`codes` names the code the question belongs to (CPK, BPK, ABTĮ, CK, DK) and you should pass it for anything PROCEDURAL.** Every procedural code has articles with the same headings, different numbers and different time limits, so an answer from the wrong one looks exactly like an answer from the right one: measured 2026-08-28, four of ten procedural questions returned their top hit from the wrong code, including a civil cassation deadline answered from the criminal procedure code. `jurisdictions` selects the law's scope, not the user's language; there is no separate language argument. For an article's wording on a past date, find its id here and use read_paragraphs with `on_date`. Example arguments: {"query": "ieškinio senaties terminas", "jurisdictions": ["LT"], "codes": ["CK"], "limit": 5}.

Sign-in required: call connect(email) and connect_verify first (free, one email) unless this connection is already signed in. Find court practice (teismų praktika) on a legal question or a provision - rulings and judgments (nutartys ir sprendimai) as the courts published them. PASS THE QUERY IN THE LANGUAGE THE COURT WRITES IN, for the same measured reason as search_law: Lithuanian courts in Lithuanian (an English query returns unrelated results rather than none); a European court's judgments in Lithuanian where held, else the source language; every result says its `lang`. Use the terms the courts use - kasacinis skundas, apeliacinis skundas, ieškinys, nutartis. Filter by court or `court_level` (the top court for the question's case type leads: LAT for civil, labour and criminal, LVAT for administrative and tax), by the provision the rulings cite (`cites`, `cites_none`), by whose words (`voice='court'`), by decision date, by case type (`civil`, `criminal`, `administrative`, `administrative_offence`) or by the court's own category code, where `43.5` narrows to that branch of the taxonomy. There is NO way to search by the name of a party: rulings are served as the courts published them, anonymised, and this tool takes no name. Each result names its ruling under `document` (`case_no`, `court`, `decided_at`, `url`; `cite_as` says how to cite one without a case number); a compact answer keeps `document.id` and `document.case_no` on the row and the rest under `documents[<document.id>]`. A question about the European Human Rights Court (EŽTT/ECHR) also gets `echr_catalogue`: the Court's case cards (metadata and the HUDOC link), never a judgment's text.

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