LexGrit

Does it know MY court?

It is not a generic courtroom. It is a catalogue of real ones.

17 Philippine forums, each carrying the proceedings it actually holds, the thresholds that send a case to it, the instruments that govern it, and how its bench is addressed.

The catalogue

From the barangay to the Supreme Court.

Before the courts

The community conciliation tier a dispute must pass through first. No lawyers appear.

  • Katarungang Pambarangay

First-level courts

Where the small-claims and summary tracks live, alongside ordinary trials.

  • Metropolitan Trial Court
  • Municipal Trial Court in Cities
  • Municipal Trial Court
  • Municipal Circuit Trial Court

Second-level courts

The RTC in general jurisdiction, and the five designations it wears — the same bench under an additional instrument, not five separate courts.

  • Regional Trial Court
  • Family Court
  • Special Commercial Court
  • Environmental Court
  • Drugs Court
  • Cybercrime Court

Parallel jurisdictions

A system alongside the ordinary hierarchy rather than above or below it. Each says which ordinary rung it answers to.

  • Shari'a Circuit Court
  • Shari'a District Court

Appellate courts

Where argument is made to a panel, and each seat speaks for itself.

  • Court of Appeals
  • Sandiganbayan
  • Court of Tax Appeals

Court of last resort

In divisions and en banc, under its own published internal rules.

  • Supreme Court

Yours not among them? It stays creatable — with a single judge and rules you upload yourself. A court LexGrit has never catalogued must remain usable, which is why that door is never closed.

The rules, curated

Two instruments, 220 provisions, both checkable.

  • 2019 Amendments to the Revised Rules on Evidence

    A.M. No. 19-08-15-SC · 116 provisions

    The rules every objection in a trial court is argued under. One corpus serving all ten trial courts, because the rules of evidence do not change between them.

  • The Internal Rules of the Supreme Court

    A.M. No. 10-4-20-SC · 104 provisions

    How the Court itself sits, decides, and disposes — the rules an advocate before it is expected to already know.

Philippine statutes and rules are government works. What is added is legal-editorial curation — the text extracted from the Court's own publication, checked against an independent copy, and every provision reviewed before an edition may ground a single session. Until a version is published it retrieves nothing, and the product says so on the forum rather than ruling on rules nobody approved.

Creating a court · the second questionA diagram of the control, drawn with the app’s own design tokens — not a screenshot.

Where do its rules come from?

  • LexGrit's rules for this forumThe governing rules, curated and kept current. This forum follows the published edition and moves when it does.
  • LexGrit's rules, made yoursStarts from the published edition and pins to it. Add your standing orders; teach it where your court differs.
  • Your own documentsYou upload the rule PDFs. Nothing is assumed, and nothing is shared.
  • A forum LexGrit has not curatedWhere no corpus exists, the two curated options are offered but not choosable, and the reason is printed rather than hidden:LexGrit does not ship rules for this forum yet.

Then make it yours

The corpus is a starting point, not a ceiling.

  • Add what only your branch has

    Standing orders, a presiding judge’s practice notes, the issuance that governs your sala and nowhere else.

  • Correct what the rule does not say

    When a ruling cites a provision your court applies differently, record it. The correction outranks the base text at retrieval and is quoted back with its provenance — labelled as your note, never passed off as authority.

  • Move when you decide to

    A fork is pinned to the edition it was written against. When a newer one is published you are told what changed and offered the move — never migrated silently, because a correction written against particular wording may not survive new wording.

What this is not

It is not training a model on your case.

What you build is corpus, retrieval and disposition tuning — your corrections are stored, ranked against the same relevance floor as everything else, and quoted back with their provenance. Nothing you write fine-tunes a model, and nothing you upload trains one. That is a smaller claim than the industry's usual one, and a more defensible one: every sentence the bench relies on can be traced to a document you can open.

The mechanics are in the guide, and what the product still refuses to claim is on its own page.