Seychelles Court of Appeal.
The apex court of the republic, hearing final appeals from the Supreme Court. Its judgments bind all courts below and settle how the mixed system's civil and common-law strands fit together.
Case law · Seychelles
Seychellois case law, cited and checkable.
Put your Seychelles question to LexChat in plain language. It draws on reported Seychellois cases and legislation, pinning every proposition to a citation you can open straight away.
Why it holds up
Answers you can check, not trust.
Seychelles is a genuinely mixed jurisdiction: a Civil Code descended from the French Napoleonic tradition operates alongside common-law procedure and precedent inherited from British administration. Researching it means reading civil-law codes through common-law case method, in a small jurisdiction whose reported decisions are spread across a handful of series and online collections.
LexChat retrieves Seychellois sources first — Court of Appeal and Supreme Court decisions together with the Civil Code and other legislation — and reasons only over what it found. Answers come back with each proposition pinned to a citation you can open, so you can see exactly how a Seychellois court reconciled code and precedent on the point.
The court system
Seychelles's courts, ready to query.
Supreme Court of Seychelles.
Despite the name, this sits below the Court of Appeal. It is the superior court of original jurisdiction, hearing serious civil, criminal and constitutional matters at first instance.
Magistrates' courts.
The first port of call for smaller civil claims and less serious criminal matters, with appeals lying to the Supreme Court and onward into the reported case law.
How it works
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Retrieval before reasoning.
LexChat searches Seychellois sources first, and reasons only over what it actually found.
Citations you can open.
Answers arrive pinned to decisions and provisions. Open the source, confirm the holding, and cite it with confidence.
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