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How to work effectively with the CasusLegal bot

A few rules for obtaining accurate answers

The CasusLegal bot is an intelligent reference tool for the case law of the higher courts (the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court and the Supreme Commercial Court), not a legal adviser. It does not provide legal assessments, predictions or advice: its task is to compile a relevant selection of case law on which you can base your own decision.

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The more precise the question, the more precise the answer

The bot does not know what is in your head, and when the wording is general it starts guessing. For the query “find disputes concerning pledges” it will return a mass of judicial acts from different instances spanning many years, and you are unlikely to find the result useful. Ask a specific question instead, for example “how have disputes concerning pledges of securities issued by foreign issuers been resolved recently”, and you will receive a precise answer with relevant links.

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Name the provision if you know it

A reference to a specific article considerably narrows the search. The query “case law under Article 333 of the Civil Code on reducing a penalty” will work more accurately than simply “reducing a penalty”.

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Speak the language of case law

The bot searches judicial acts by meaning, so professional terminology works better than everyday language. The wording “Enforcement against the pledged property” will produce more precise results than “how to take possession of pledged property”.

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Do not overload your question

Do not upload an entire court decision or a 20-page contract and ask the assistant to find case law for comments or an appeal. State the issue briefly and to the point: the search will then work more accurately.

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Before starting a new topic, click “🆕 New question”

This button clears the bot’s memory of the previous session so that the previous subject does not get mixed into the new request. If you are continuing a topic you have already started and are only clarifying it, there is no need to reset the context.

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Clarify without starting over

If the answer is close but not quite accurate, ask a clarifying question in the same session: narrow down the period, court, or type of dispute (“leave only Judicial Chamber for Economic Disputes rulings from the past two years”). This is faster than rephrasing the request from scratch.

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Check the primary source

The bot provides links to decisions and allows you to export both the answer and the decisions themselves in Word or Markdown. For significant cases, open the full text and check it against the answer: the final legal conclusion remains yours.

These habits save queries and produce the case law you actually need.

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