Following legislation, courts and gazettes
Keeping up with the official gazette, parliament and the courts when nothing arrives as an alert.
Outcome
A dated record of new laws, decisions, gazette issues, and court updates, with the official source, version, relevant provisions, and responsible reviewer.
Data gate
- Public: official gazettes, court websites, and published legislation can use checked search, OCR, and summarization routes.
- Internal: an unpublished monitoring plan or draft legal analysis needs an approved account or local route.
- Identifiable: client alerts, case strategy, and private filings remain in a controlled local or manual workflow.
Use AI when
- You already have the official document and need OCR, comparison, or a first-pass issue list.
- The workflow records publication date, version, and source URL.
- A qualified person will check any provision that informs action or advice.
Do not use AI when
- You expect a chatbot to know that a new item was published without checking the official source.
- You have only a news report or an undated copy instead of the controlling text.
- The tool is expected to decide legal effect, deadline, or applicability.
Workflow
- Prepare: name the official sources, responsible person, schedule, and topics or provisions to track.
- Process: capture each new item, preserve the original, run OCR if needed, and compare it with the previous version.
- Verify: check title, issuing body, publication date, effective date, article numbers, and amendments against the official text.
- Store or alert: save the source and change note, then send only reviewed alerts with a clear owner.
Human verification checklist
- The source is official and the current version is identified.
- Publication, effective, hearing, and deadline dates are not confused.
- Every quoted provision exists in the cited article and page.
- The alert separates what changed from what the organisation infers.
If it fails
Return to the official site, confirm the version, and compare the documents manually. If OCR is poor, use it only to locate a page and read that page from the image. Do not repair unreadable legal text by guessing.
Start next
Use the scanned-document recipe below for public or approved local material. A source-grounded tool can help locate passages, but the gazette or court record remains the authority.
Prompts for this task
Public material only
Compare two versions of a law and list what changed
30 minutes · Gives you a table
Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language. Below are two versions of the same law, regulation or bill. Version 1 is the older one. Version 2 is the newer one. Rules: 1. Compare them article by article. Quote the exact wording on both sides. 2. Report only what changed. Do not summarise what stayed the same. 3. Say what each change does in practice, in one plain sentence. No political comment. 4. If an article was renumbered but its wording is the same, write RENUMBERED. Do not report it as removed. 5. Article numbers may arrive in mixed digits: ١٢٣ alongside 123. Treat ١٢ and 12 as the same article. 6. If a change is ambiguous, say so and give both readings. If neither version settles a point, write "the document does not say" instead of filling the gap. Give me, in this order: A. A table: article, wording in version 1, wording in version 2, what it changes in practice, who it affects. B. Articles removed or added. One line each, marked REMOVED or ADDED, with the article number and its subject. C. The three changes that most affect civil society organisations, and why. D. Anything you could not compare because the numbering differs. If you are reading on a phone, replace the table with one block per row: a heading line, then one short labelled line per column. Version 1: [PASTE THE OLDER VERSION] Version 2: [PASTE THE NEWER VERSION]
Public material only
Sort a gazette issue into read, watch and ignore
20 minutes · Gives you a table
Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language. Below is the table of contents of one issue of an official gazette. I have the titles only, not the full texts. Sort them for me. Rules: 1. Work only from the titles I give you. Do not describe content you have not been given, and do not fill it in from what such items usually contain. 2. Where the title alone does not say what an item changes, write "The title alone is not enough" in that cell and stop there. 3. Copy each item's number, date and title exactly as printed, including mixed digits: ١٢٣ alongside 123. 4. Give every item one verdict: "Read in full", "Watch" or "Ignore", with a reason of one line. 5. Add nothing about who published it, why, or what it means politically. Give me, in this order: A. A table with these columns: item as printed, what it appears to change, who it appears to affect, verdict, reason. B. The items where the title alone is not enough, listed again, each with the one question that would settle it. C. If there is time for only three, the order to open them in. If you are reading on a phone, replace the table with one block per row: a heading line, then one short labelled line per column. Table of contents: [PASTE THE LIST OF ITEMS]
Public material only
Draft a comment on a published draft law
25 minutes · Gives you short sections · Works on a phone
Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language. Below is a published draft law, and a list of the articles I want to comment on with my own published evidence for each. Write the comment I will submit. Rules: 1. Comment only on the articles I list. Add no other article, however weak it looks. 2. Use only the evidence I give you. Never invent a case, a figure, a date or a source, and never add an example of your own. 3. Where my evidence does not carry the point, write "Evidence missing" and the one line I would have to supply. 4. Quote the article's current wording exactly, then give the proposed wording in full, so the two can be read side by side. 5. Plain and formal. Propose wording. Do not argue about motive and do not accuse. Give me, for each article I list, in this order: A. The article number, its current wording quoted, and the exact wording proposed instead. B. The reason, in one sentence, naming which of my evidence lines it rests on. C. The effect on the people this article reaches, using only what my evidence says. Where my evidence does not say, write it as a question for me to answer before I submit. Then once at the end: D. Every "Evidence missing" line, gathered in one list. Keep the whole comment under one page. Draft law: [PASTE THE ARTICLES OF THE DRAFT LAW] Articles I am commenting on, and my evidence for each: [LIST EACH ARTICLE NUMBER AND ONE LINE OF YOUR OWN PUBLISHED EVIDENCE]
Tools that help with this
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Step-by-step guides for this
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