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# Research with Ask Juris

Use Research when your question requires Jurisphere to find and analyse legal authorities or other available research sources.

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## Overview

The Jurisphere Research tool is an AI powered legal research assistant that simplifies complex legal queries. The tool intelligently retrieves relevant case law, statutes, and legal insights from trusted sources ensuring accuracy and efficiency in research.

### Components of Research Tool

1. **Comprehensive Case Law Access**: Jurisphere has a repository of over **200 million** documents across courts, regulators and tribunals in India and select international jurisdictions.
2. **Autonomous Research Agent**: Jurisphere operates as a free-thinking AI agent within a framework of strict legal protocols defined by the platform.
3. **Dynamic Follow up Queries**: Allows deeper research by refining prior queries, for up to 30 questions in a single thread
4. **Legislation and Statutory References**: Retrieves relevant law and provisions directly, linked with in-line citations in every answer

### Agents involved in Research

1. **Master Agent:** Breaks down and expands your input query, and develops search strategy steps based on information already gathered.
2. **Web Search:** A real-time web search from curated and authoritative websites.
3. **Judgement Search:** Semantic and context based search through our database.
4. **Legislation Search:** Retrieval of relevant rules and regulations to add authority.
5. **Final Research Note:** A judicious amalgamation of answers from different sources, and generation of a comprehensive legal note with references.

### Our Database, Repositories & Trusted Sources

Our research engine is built on one of the **largest curated legal databases available today**, with **over 200 million primary source documents**. We maintain **direct pipelines with authoritative sources**, ensuring that the judgments, orders and regulatory materials you access are both **current and reliable**.

#### **Coverage includes:**

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{% tab title="IND 🇮🇳" %}

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<summary>⚖️ <strong>Courts</strong></summary>

All <mark style="color:green;">reported and unreported judgements</mark> of the **Supreme Court of India** and **every High Court** in the country, exactly as published on the official court websites.

Judgements of the Delhi District Courts and Bangalore City Civil Court.

</details>

<details>

<summary>🏛️ <strong>Tribunals</strong></summary>

Judgements of the following tribunals are available on Jurisphere:

NCLAT (National Company Law Appellate Tribunal)\
CAT (Central Administrative Tribunal)\
ITAT (Income Tax Appellate Tribunal)\
SAT (Securities Appellate Tribunal)\
CESTAT (Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal)\
CERC (Central Electricity Regulatory Commission)\
DRAT (Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunal)\
NGT (National Green Tribunal)\
CIC (Central Information Commission)\
CLB (Company Law Board)\
NCDRC (National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission)\
IPAB (Intellectual Property Appellate Board)\
Appellate Tribunal for Electricity<br>

</details>

<details>

<summary>🛡️ <strong>Regulators</strong></summary>

Orders, Notifications and Circulars from:

* RBI (Reserve Bank of India)
* SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India)
* CCI (Competition Commission of India)
* IRDAI (Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority)
* IBBI (Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India)

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{% tab title="UAE 🇦🇪 " %}

<details>

<summary>🏛️ <strong>Federal Courts</strong></summary>

All judgments and official court interpretations of the **Union Supreme Court (Federal Supreme Court)** and judicial interpretations issued by the Ministry of Justice

</details>

<details>

<summary>⚖️ <strong>Onshore Courts</strong></summary>

Judgments and official verdicts of courts in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, covering:

* Court of First Instance
* Court of Appeal
* Court of Cassation

</details>

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<summary>🏢 <strong>Offshore Courts</strong></summary>

Judgments, orders, and practice directions of

* **Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) Courts**
* **Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts**
* **RAK International Corporate Centre (RAK ICC)**

</details>

The database also includes official interpretative and compliance materials issued by UAE authorities, including 254 Federal Legislations, 74 Executive Legislations.
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{% tab title="US 🇺🇸" %}

<details>

<summary><strong>⚖️ Supreme Court</strong></summary>

* Decisions, opinions, and related metadata from the **U.S. Supreme Court**.

</details>

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<summary>🏛️ <strong>Federal Courts</strong></summary>

**Circuit Courts of Appeals** - All 13 U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals that sit below the U.S. Supreme Court and their published opinions

**District Courts -** The nation’s 94 district or trial courts and their published opinions.

**Specialised Courts**

**Bankruptcy Courts** - 90 U.S. bankruptcy courts.

**Article I Courts**

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<details>

<summary>🏙️ <strong>State Courts</strong></summary>

Decisions from **State Supreme Courts** and many **Intermediate Appellate Courts** across the U.S., including select **business/commercial divisions** where available.

**State Trial Courts**

**State Intermediate Appellate Courts**

**State Supreme Courts**

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<details>

<summary>🛡️ <strong>Regulators</strong> and Enforcement Authorities</summary>

1. **FTC:** Federal privacy and consumer security enforcement
2. **HHS OCR:** HIPAA compliance and enforcement
3. **NIST**: Privacy & cybersecurity frameworks supporting legal compliance
4. **State regulators & AGs:** CPPA (California), Texas AG, Oregon DOJ, Delaware DOJ and others with statewide privacy laws

</details>
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{% tab title="UK 🇬🇧" %}
Judgments from the UK Supreme Court, House of Lords, Privy Council Decisions, Magistrate Courts, Crown Courts, and Employment Tribunals, Upper Tribunals and First - Tier Tribunals.
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{% tab title="CAN 🇨🇦" %}
Judgements from

1. Federal courts (including the Supreme Court of Canada)
2. Provincial and territorial courts (supreme courts, courts of appeal, trial courts)
3. Administrative tribunals and regulatory bodies
4. Legislation and regulations for each province and territory
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{% tab title="EU 🇪🇺" %}

<details>

<summary>📘 <strong>EU-Level Data Protection Regulators</strong></summary>

**European Data Protection Board (EDPB)** — guidance, opinions, dispute-resolution decisions

**European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)** — oversight of EU institutions, investigations, opinions

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<summary>🏛️ <strong>European Commission</strong></summary>

GDPR policy portals, international transfers, SCCs, adequacy decisions

Official implementation FAQs and resources

</details>

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<summary>📜 <strong>Legislation Repositories</strong></summary>

**EUR-Lex** — authentic, consolidated EU legislation (including GDPR)

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<summary>⚖️ <strong>EU Court System</strong></summary>

**Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU / CURIA)**\
Judgments and opinions establishing authoritative interpretation of EU law

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<details>

<summary>🛡️ <strong>Cybersecurity &#x26; Technical Standards</strong></summary>

**ENISA (EU Agency for Cybersecurity)**\
Security of processing guidance and sector reports

</details>

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<summary>🌍 <strong>National &#x26; EEA Supervisory Authorities</strong></summary>

Major DPAs across EU and EEA, including CNIL (France), DPC (Ireland), BfDI (Germany), AEPD (Spain), Garante (Italy), and others - enforcement decisions, local compliance notes, and regulatory guidance

</details>
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{% tab title="Singapore🇸🇬" %}
Decisions, opinions, and related metadata from the:

| **Supreme Court**         | <p><strong>Courts of Appeal</strong></p><p><strong>High Courts</strong></p><p><strong>Singapore International Commercial Court</strong></p>                                                                                                                                                |
| ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **State Courts**          | <p><strong>District Courts</strong></p><p><strong>Magistrates' Courts</strong></p><p><strong>Coroners' Courts</strong></p><p><strong>Small Claims Tribunals</strong></p><p><strong>Community Disputes Resolution Tribunals</strong></p><p><strong>Employment Claims Tribunals</strong></p> |
| **Family Justice Courts** | <p><strong>Family Courts</strong></p><p><strong>Youth Courts</strong></p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
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{% tab title="KSA🇸🇦" %}
Decisions, opinions, and related metadata from the **Supreme Court, Courts of Appeal, First Instance Court and Enforcement Courts.**
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{% endtabs %}

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The 'Web Search' option on research allows the tool to go through all information available on the internet real time. You can either combine it with your preferred database for broader research, or use 'Web Search' exclusively to turn the research tool into a general-purpose tool!
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Our pipelines are **updated continuously**, giving you **fast, source linked access** to the most recent and authoritative legal materials for your research.

Jurisphere also conducts real time searches and references from authoritative sources on the web, including but not limited to journals, publicly available law reports, etc, which are constantly monitored and updated by our team of experts.

#### Repositories Include:

Jurisphere Research searches curated repositories of primary legal material. This section tells you, repository by repository, what is included and how to phrase a query that finds it.

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**Where to switch repositories on:** open Ask Juris, select **Research**, click the **Settings** icon, then open the repository group you need (for example Corporate Law or Securities Law). You can switch on a whole group or only the sub-repositories you want.
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<details>

<summary>Corporate Law: MCA, NCLT, NCLAT and IBBI</summary>

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**Settings path:** Research → Settings → Repositories -> **Corporate Law** → MCA, NCLT, NCLAT, IBBI. Switch on only the ones you need to keep results focused.
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| MCA Coverage                                                                                                  |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Companies Act, 2013, notifications, rules, accounting standards and forms.                                    |
| General circulars such as clarifications, fee relaxations, COVID-19 measures, CSR or filing portal circulars. |

| NCLT, NCLAT and IBBI Coverage |                                                                                                                     |
| ----------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| NCLT                          | Bench orders on CIRP, liquidation, voluntary liquidation and schemes of amalgamation                                |
| NCLAT                         | Appellate judgments and short orders, including competition appeals and registry orders                             |
| IBBI                          | Gazette notified regulations with their schedules and forms, such as the Insolvency Professionals Regulations, 2016 |

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For Supreme Court and High Court judgments on company law or insolvency, keep Jurisphere's Indian Legal Database in scope alongside these repositories.
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</details>

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<summary>Securities Law: SEBI and SAT</summary>

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**Settings path:** Research → Settings → Repositories -> **Securities Law** → SEBI Regulations, SEBI Circulars, SEBI Informal Guidance, SEBI DRHP, SAT.
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| SEBI and SAT Coverage                                                                                            |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Statutes and rules, such as the SEBI Act, 1992, the procedural rules of the Securities Appellate Tribunal.       |
| Regulations                                                                                                      |
| Circulars, master circulars, rescission lists and prescribed disclosure and reporting formats                    |
| Enforcement orders such as settlement, adjudication, SEBI orders passed after SAT remand                         |
| Informal guidance under the Informal Guidance Scheme, 2003                                                       |
| Takeover and buy-back documents, such as letters of offer, public announcements and post-buy-back advertisements |

</details>

<details>

<summary>Reserve Bank of India</summary>

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**Settings path:** Research → Settings → Repositories -> **Reserve Bank of India.**
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| RBI Coverage                                                                                                    |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| FEMA Master Directions, such as Overseas Investment and the Liberalised Remittance Scheme                       |
| Payments, banking, NBFC and markets directions                                                                  |
| Currency management directions                                                                                  |
| FEMA compounding, including master circulars, master directions and amendments on compounding of contraventions |
| A.P. (DIR Series) circulars and FEMA notifications                                                              |

</details>

<details>

<summary>Competition Law: CCI</summary>

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**Settings path:** Research → Settings → Repositories -> CCI.
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| CCI Coverage                  | Includes                                                                                                                                           |
| ----------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Prima facie orders            | Section 26(2) closure orders (such as on dominance, relevant market or 'enterprise' grounds) and section 26(1) orders directing a DG investigation |
| Interim and procedural orders | Section 33 orders and interlocutory applications                                                                                                   |
| Final orders                  | Section 27 orders after DG investigation, including recent cartel and abuse orders, and closures after commitment proceedings                      |
| MRTP Commission matters       | Legacy matters transferred under section 66 of the Competition Act                                                                                 |
| Merger control                | Combinations Regulations, Criteria of Combination Rules, amendments and Gazette notifications                                                      |
| Regulations                   | General, procedural, recovery, turnover and cost regulations, and the Lesser Penalty, Settlement and Commitment Regulations                        |
| Guidance                      | CCI FAQs on combinations, penalties and related topics                                                                                             |

</details>

<details>

<summary>Income Tax</summary>

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**Settings path:** Research → Settings → Repositories → **Income Tax**.
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| Income Tax Coverage    | Includes                                                                                                                                                                              |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Income Tax Act, 2025   | Act 30 of 2025 as amended by the Finance Act, 2026, in force from 1 April 2026, with transitional and savings provisions                                                              |
| Income Tax Rules, 2026 | Rules with Forms and Appendices (G.S.R. 198(E) of 20 March 2026), covering transfer pricing and safe harbour, APAs, returns, TDS and TCS, practitioner registration, funds and trusts |
| Income Tax Act, 1961   | As amended by the Finance Act, 2025, section by section with amendment footnotes                                                                                                      |

</details>

<details>

<summary>Canada SC: Memorandums &#x26; Factums</summary>

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**Settings path:** Research → Settings → Repositories -> **Canada SC: Memorandums & Factums**.
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| Canada SC Coverage                       | Includes                                                                                           |
| ---------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Principal factums                        | Appellants' and respondents' factums, including cross-appeals                                      |
| Reply, response and supplemental factums | Replies, responses and factums filed by court order, including joint factums                       |
| Leave-stage memoranda                    | Memoranda of argument and responses to leave applications                                          |
| Intervener submissions                   | Memoranda and factums of interveners                                                               |
| Subjects                                 | Charter, criminal law, family law, competition class actions, federalism, copyright and insolvency |

</details>

<details>

<summary>TAS / CAS</summary>

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**Settings path:** Research → Settings → Repositories → **TAS / CAS**.
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| Tribunal Arbitral du Sport (TAS) / The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) Coverage | Includes                                                                             |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Appeal awards                                                                        | Awards on appeals from federation decisions (football, athletics, cycling, aquatics) |
| Ordinary and first instance awards                                                   | Awards under the ordinary ('O') procedure                                            |
| Orders and revision awards                                                           | Stay orders and revision proceedings                                                 |
| Consent awards                                                                       | Settlements embodied in awards                                                       |
| Olympic ad hoc Division                                                              | Rapid decisions at the Olympic Games                                                 |
| Awards with headnotes                                                                | Keywords, panel composition and a summary before the text                            |

</details>

<details>

<summary>Nepal Supreme Court</summary>

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**Settings path:** Research → Settings → Repositories → **Nepal Supreme Court**.
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| Nepal Supreme Court Coverage     | Includes                                                                   |
| -------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Constitutional writ jurisdiction | Certiorari, mandamus, prohibition and constitutional challenges            |
| Criminal matters                 | Homicide, narcotics, corruption and habeas corpus                          |
| Contempt of court                | Contempt proceedings                                                       |
| Civil, property and commercial   | Land registration, partition, compensation and bank guarantees             |
| Public law and governance        | Judicial appointments, election matters, military and transitional justice |

</details>

***

## How to conduct research

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### Navigate to Ask Juris

Start from the Ask Juris page
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### Type in your Research Query

You can use natural language, just like how you would speak to a colleague or pose a question to a junior.

You can make your research request more specific by including:

* The jurisdiction.
* The applicable statute.
* A specific section.
* The court or tribunal.
* The legal issue.
* Relevant facts.
* The purpose for which you need the research.

For example:

> Find recent Supreme Court and High Court decisions on post termination non-compete clauses in India. Focus on cases where an employer sought to restrain a former employee from joining a competitor.

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Use the voice transcription/mic button at the bottom right to dictate your query into the tool.

You can also use our Prompt Enhancement feature to make your instructions more detailed.
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### Attach Documents for Context

If your research question relates to a particular matter, attach the relevant documents. The documents help provide factual context for your research question.

Clicking on '**Attach**' opens the file pane on the left, from which you can choose uploaded documents for context.
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### Select Research

Select <img src="https://3330719282-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F2zbn28n79AjHkgxNqfPb%2Fuploads%2FWa59eOxM7EdKso1hWm42%2Fimage.png?alt=media&amp;token=2e08f8d5-a542-4055-b300-811e94387b73" alt="" data-size="line"> from the prompt box options.
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### Select the Relevant Research Databases

Click the Settings <img src="https://3330719282-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F2zbn28n79AjHkgxNqfPb%2Fuploads%2Ff9LthmWUnbQUtz9ZTxiM%2Fimage.png?alt=media&amp;token=99b7a71a-1580-4e02-b3d2-7bc16b2e57e8" alt="" data-size="line"> icon to open the available Jurisphere Research Databases and select the ones relevant to your research query.
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### Review the Response

After Jurisphere responds, you can:

* Verify sources through the inline citations and the **view sources** tab.
* Click a citation to open the source document in the left viewer pane (for external sources, in a new browser tab). Use View Source button towards the bottom to open the original judgment as a PDF and download it via your browser.
* **Download** or **copy** the response from the bottom of the output. You can choose to download with or without in-line citations as a Word (.docx) file.
* Ask a **follow-up** query to continue and refine your research.
* **Import** the response directly into a folder on the platform for reference in the matter or other tasks.
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### Continue the Conversation

Ask follow-up questions to clarify an issue, narrow scope, request additional authorities, focus on a particular argument or ask Jurisphere to explain a case or provision in more detail.

Each follow-up is aware of the full output history, so you don't need to repeat yourself. A research thread supports up to **30 questions in total** and remains contextually aware throughout. Jurisphere also suggests follow-up questions under each response, click any suggestion to continue the thread faster.
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### Limitations

* Research is a **starting point**, not a substitute for independent human legal research or a final legal opinion.
* **Query refinement** may still be required, even with Prompt Enhancement, the tool may ask clarifying questions to give you the most relevant results.
* Research helps you triangulate between sources, it does not provide definitive legal advice.
* Research is **not a substitute** for a dedicated online legal database for legislation, regulation and statutory research.
* Response length keeps the answer focused to the query asked. If you need a broader survey, ask a targeted follow-up rather than expecting a single exhaustive answer, since the tool prioritises relevance over volume.

***

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