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What does the Tool RAG Public Legal Corpus skill do?

Use when retrieving from the indexed corpus of public legal texts — court judgments (DIFC, ADGM, UK, US, EU), statutes, official gazettes, and regulatory instruments — to support legal research, precedent finding, or statute verification. Organized as per-jurisdiction indexes. Lower precedence than firm KB and personal KB; complements premium databases. Best for DIFC/ADGM case law, GCC statutes, and curated public corpora not fully covered by Westlaw or LexisNexis. It is listed under AI & ML on SkillMD.

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sboghossian (@sboghossian-mini-claude-for-legal) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Tool RAG Public Legal Corpus by sboghossian-mini-claude-for-legal

Name: Tool RAG Public Legal Corpus
Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Author: sboghossian

RAG — Public Legal Corpus

What it does

This tool retrieves from a curated, pre-indexed corpus of public legal texts organized into per-jurisdiction indexes. Unlike live database queries (Westlaw, LexisNexis), this corpus is pre-processed and embedded for fast semantic retrieval — trading real-time currency for speed and cost efficiency.

The public legal corpus is the default research layer when:

Premium database credentials are not configured for the tenant
The query is about well-established statutory provisions unlikely to have changed recently
The jurisdiction is a MENA court system better covered by this corpus than by Westlaw/LexisNexis
The user needs quick retrieval during drafting without a full research query

Corpus structure

Per-jurisdiction indexes

Jurisdiction	Content	Currency
DIFC	All DIFC Laws, DIFC Courts judgments (Court of First Instance + Court of Appeal + DIFC Arbitration Institute), DIFC Authority regulations	Updated quarterly
ADGM	ADGM Acts, ADGM Courts judgments, FSRA regulations, ADGM Registrar guidance	Updated quarterly
UAE (onshore)	UAE Federal Laws (Commercial Companies Law, Civil Transactions Law, Commercial Code), CBUAE circulars, DED guidance	Updated semi-annually
KSA	Saudi Company Law, Saudi Civil Transactions Law, SAMA circulars, CMA regulations, MOC guidance	Updated semi-annually
LB	Lebanese Code of Commerce, Code of Obligations and Contracts, BDL circulars, selected Court of Cassation judgments	Updated annually
EG	Egyptian Civil Code, Egyptian Commercial Companies Law, EFSA regulations	Updated annually
UK	Selected House of Lords / Supreme Court judgments, key CA decisions (particularly arbitration, contract, company law)	Updated quarterly
US	SCOTUS opinions, selected federal circuit court opinions, major securities law cases	Updated quarterly
EU	CJEU opinions on jurisdiction, data protection (GDPR), competition	Updated quarterly
FR	Code civil (consolidated), Code de commerce, selected Cassation judgments	Updated semi-annually via Legifrance
GCC	GCC Secretariat instruments, uniform GCC laws	Updated annually

Document types indexed

Court judgments (full text where available, summary where full text is restricted)
Statutory texts (consolidated, with version dates)
Regulatory instruments (circulars, guidance notes, rulebooks)
Official gazette publications (for recent statutory instruments)
Selected academic commentary (law review articles on MENA law, DIFC/ADGM practitioners' guides)

Retrieval precedence

Priority	Source	Use when
1	Firm KB ([[tool-rag-firm-knowledge]])	Firm-specific precedent exists
2	Personal KB ([[tool-rag-personal-knowledge]])	User's personal uploaded documents
3	Live database (Westlaw / LexisNexis)	Real-time currency needed; credentials available
4	This tool — Public corpus	Default; no credentials or speed/cost priority
5	Web search	Freshness needed beyond corpus currency

Capabilities

Semantic search

Input:  {
  query: "DIFC Court approach to liquidated damages clauses",
  jurisdiction: "DIFC",
  documentTypes: ["case_law"]
}
Output: [
  {
    title, court, date, citation,
    snippet, similarity, url,
    fullTextAvailable: bool
  }
]

Statute lookup (exact article)

Input:  {
  articleRef: "Article 58 DIFC Contract Law",
  jurisdiction: "DIFC"
}
Output: { text, version, effectiveDate, consolidationDate }

Parallel statute comparison

Input:  {
  topic: "force majeure definition",
  jurisdictions: ["DIFC", "UAE-onshore", "KSA", "LB"]
}
Output: { comparison: [{ jurisdiction, articleRef, text }] }

Currency and staleness

Important limitation: this corpus is periodically refreshed, not real-time. Currency varies by jurisdiction and document type. For:

Recent cases (< 6 months): use live database or web search
Recent regulatory circulars (< 12 months): use web search (site:cbuae.gov.ae, site:sama.gov.sa, etc.)
Emergency legislation / COVID-era decrees: verify against official gazette

Every result is tagged with corpusDate — the date this document was last ingested. If corpusDate is more than 12 months ago for a fast-moving area (fintech, crypto, AI regulation), flag for verification.

Citations

Retrieved corpus passages are cited as:

For case law: standard legal citation format (e.g., [2021] DIFC CFI 034)
For statutes: article reference + version date (e.g., DIFC Contract Law, Art. 58, as of 2023)
For regulatory instruments: [Corpus: CBUAE Circular 2023/01] with corpus ingestion date

Always distinguish corpus-retrieved citations from live-database-retrieved citations in the output — the former may not reflect the most current version.

Output schema

{
  "results": [
    {
      "title": "Al Khorafi v. Bank Sarasin-Alpen (ME) Ltd",
      "citation": "[2011] DIFC CA 001",
      "court": "DIFC Court of Appeal",
      "date": "2011-04-15",
      "jurisdiction": "DIFC",
      "documentType": "case_law",
      "snippet": "...",
      "similarity": 0.88,
      "corpusDate": "2024-10-01",
      "fullTextAvailable": true,
      "url": "https://difccourts.ae/..."
    }
  ],
  "totalResults": 5,
  "corpusCurrencyWarning": null,
  "queryTimestamp": "2026-05-14T10:00:00Z"
}

Related skills

[[tool-rag-firm-knowledge]] — firm KB; higher precedence
[[tool-rag-personal-knowledge]] — user personal KB; higher precedence
[[tool-lexisnexis]] — live premium database; higher precedence when credentialed
[[tool-thomson-reuters-westlaw]] — live premium database for US/UK/AU
[[tool-legifrance-fr]] — live official French text; more current than corpus for FR
[[tool-legal-data-hunter]] — orchestrator that combines this and other sources

Tool RAG Public Legal Corpus

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