Constitutional Court.
South Africa's apex court, sitting in Johannesburg. Once confined to constitutional matters, it is now the final court of appeal across the board, and its judgments bind every other court.
Case law · South Africa
South African case law with citations you can open.
Put South African questions to LexChat in plain language. It draws on the country's reported cases and legislation, and anchors each proposition to a citation you can open and verify.
Why it holds up
Answers you can check, not trust.
South Africa's problem is rarely too little law — it is volume. A mixed system of Roman-Dutch civil law and English common law has produced well over a century of reported authority across multiple series, spread between the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court of Appeal and the many High Court divisions. Sifting that mass for the controlling case is slow, and the best databases sit behind paywalls.
LexChat retrieves South African reported cases and legislation first, then reasons only over what it found. Ask in plain language and the answer comes back with each proposition pinned to a source — a Constitutional Court judgment, an SCA decision from Bloemfontein, a High Court ruling or a section of an Act — that you can open and check for yourself.
The court system
South Africa's courts, ready to query.
Supreme Court of Appeal.
Seated in Bloemfontein, the SCA hears appeals from the High Court divisions and remains the workhorse of South African appellate precedent in civil and criminal matters.
High Court.
A single High Court organised into provincial divisions, with unlimited original jurisdiction. Its judgments supply the bulk of first-instance reported authority practitioners cite daily.
How it works
From question to authority in three steps.
Ask in plain language.
Describe the issue the way you would to a colleague — no query syntax, no database codes, no guessing at keywords.
Retrieval before reasoning.
LexChat searches South African 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.
Go deeper
Coverage beyond South Africa.
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