AskLex.law

Legal research in Sri Lanka means navigating statutes, case law and commentary — slow, manual, and unforgiving of error. AskLex.law is a legal research assistant that answers questions about Sri Lankan law in seconds.

Legal AI has an inherent trust problem: a fluent answer that can't be checked is worse than no answer, because it invites reliance without verification. For a legal tool, the citation is the product.

We approached it as a retrieval and reliability problem, not a chatbot problem — how to ground answers in real statutes and case law, and surface citations the user can check rather than take on faith.

Retrieval-grade AI: answers built from and anchored to primary legal sources — statutes, case law and commentary — with verifiable citations attached to what the system says.

A system that returns statute and case-law answers in seconds, each carrying citations a lawyer can follow to the source.

The bar is verifiability: citations must resolve to real, correct sources a legal professional can confirm. [CONTENT REQUIRED: evaluation method / accuracy]

Legal research that took hours compresses toward seconds — without asking the user to trust an unverifiable answer. [CONTENT REQUIRED: usage / adoption]

• Retrieval-augmented AI over Sri Lankan legal corpora
• Citation resolution
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