Research Philippine law with confidence.
Search authorities, understand decisions, and verify subsequent treatment with BatasDB Case Citator™.
A search engine built for Philippine legal research — not a chatbot.
Writ of Amparo habeas corpus
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right to counsel during custodial investigation
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just compensation eminent domain
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illegal dismissal burden of proof
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Republic Act 9262 VAWC penalties
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Search Philippine laws and Supreme Court cases in plain English.
The Writ of Amparo is an extraordinary remedy providing protection to persons whose right to life, liberty, and security is violated or threatened by any public official or private individual. It covers situations of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings.
Dela Cruz v. Office of the Solicitor General
The writ is a remedy available to any person whose right to life, liberty and security is violated or threatened by an unlawful act or omission of a public official or private individual…
Reyes v. Commission on Human Rights
Petitioner filed for the issuance of the writ on grounds that respondents failed to investigate alleged threats to his life and liberty despite repeated requests for protective measures…
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What you get
Built for how legal research actually works.
Whether you're a lawyer, researcher, or law student — one tool, real results, all rooted in Philippine law.
Search in plain language
Type a legal topic or question in plain terms. No exact-keyword guessing — the search understands legal concepts and matches them to real provisions.
Nothing to install
Search straight from your browser — no setup, no plugins, no learning curve. Sign in and start researching.
No made-up cases
Every result is a real Supreme Court decision or Republic Act. The summary only speaks about what was actually found — it never invents cases.
SC decisions, statutes + Rules of Court
Search across Supreme Court decisions, Republic Acts, and the Rules of Court in one place. Filter by document type to narrow your scope.
Search history
Every search is saved. Open any past result instantly — no repeat charges, no re-running the same question.
Your searches stay private
We never store your searches for AI training and never share them. Your library of laws stays the same for everyone — predictable and verifiable.
Research workflows
From search to citation, in one Philippine legal research tool.
BatasDB is built around the work lawyers and law students already do: finding authority, checking it, and understanding what it says.
Search Philippine law
Find Supreme Court decisions, Republic Acts, Rules of Court provisions, and other Philippine legal sources by topic, citation, or plain-English question.
Explore the legal search engineVerify whether a case is still good law
Use the Case Citator workflow to check how later Supreme Court decisions treated an earlier case before you rely on it.
See the Case CitatorUnderstand a decision faster
Turn long decisions into source-grounded case digests with facts, issues, ruling, and doctrine drawn from the actual opinion.
View Case DigestNew to citators? Read what a case citator is and why Philippine legal research needs one.
Why accuracy matters
In legal research, citing a fake case is malpractice.
Generic AI tools invent case citations that sound real but don't exist. Lawyers around the world have already been sanctioned for submitting made-up rulings to courts.
BatasDB doesn't write legal text. It searches a verified library of real Supreme Court decisions and Republic Acts, then summarizes only what it finds. Every citation points to a real document you can open and verify.
Every result is grounded in real, verified Philippine legal documents.
Disbarment
Lawyers who cite fabricated cases face disciplinary action — including suspension or disbarment — for misleading the court.
Case dismissal
Motions built on made-up citations get thrown out. Judges have sanctioned attorneys for filing AI-written briefs with fake case law.
Client harm
Wrong legal advice based on invented precedent can cost clients their freedom, property, or livelihood. The stakes are not theoretical.
BatasDB: search, not generation
Results come from a verified library of Philippine law — not from an AI making things up. What you see is what actually exists.
What's in the library
Philippine law, indexed top-to-bottom.
From the Constitution and treaties down to BIR circulars and SEC opinions — every corpus we index, weighted the way the law itself ranks.
New decisions and statutes are indexed within days of publication.
Use cases
Who searches with BatasDB.
From solo practitioners and small firms to law students and bar reviewees researching Philippine law every day.
Lawyers & legal researchers
Find the right case in seconds, not hours.
Skip the manual e-Library browsing. Search by topic or citation and get ranked Supreme Court decisions and statutes, with a summary grounded only in what was actually found — no invented citations.
Get startedLaw students & bar reviewees
Study from primary sources, not summaries.
Look up the actual rulings and statutes behind any topic. Search by concept or citation and read ranked Supreme Court decisions and provisions straight from the source — the way the bar actually tests them.
Get startedCompliance & legaltech
Look up the right law, every time.
Filter to the exact statute or provision behind any business question. Use it to power compliance tools, contract checkers, or internal legal portals — always on current Philippine law.
Get startedNo made-up cases — by design.
Generic AI tools often invent case citations, make up GR numbers, or get the law wrong — because they were never built around Philippine law. BatasDB pulls real, verified documents first, then summarizes only what it actually found. Your answers come from real Supreme Court rulings, not guesses.
FAQ
Common questions.
- Where can I search Philippine Supreme Court decisions?
- You can search Philippine Supreme Court decisions in BatasDB by topic, G.R. number, party name, or plain-English legal question. Results link back to real source documents you can open and verify.
- How do I find a Supreme Court case by G.R. number?
- Type the G.R. number directly in the search bar. BatasDB will match it to the exact Supreme Court decision in our verified library.
- How do I check if a Philippine case is still good law?
- Start by finding the case, then review later cases that cited it. BatasDB is building a Case Citator workflow to help trace whether later decisions followed, distinguished, questioned, modified, or overruled the case.
- What is the difference between Lawphil and BatasDB?
- Lawphil is a valuable public source for Philippine legal texts. BatasDB is a legal research tool built on searchable, ranked, and source-linked results so researchers can find relevant authority faster and verify what they cite.
- Is there a free trial?
- Yes. Every new account gets a 7-day free trial of dashboard search — no credit card required. After the trial, subscribe to keep searching. The Case Citator stays free to use.
- Does BatasDB cover the Rules of Court?
- Yes. The library includes the Rules of Court alongside Supreme Court decisions, Republic Acts, and other Philippine legal sources.
- Can law students use BatasDB for bar review?
- Yes. BatasDB is used by law students for case research, moot preparation, and bar review. Search by topic or citation in plain English.
- Will BatasDB invent or hallucinate case citations?
- No. BatasDB searches a verified library of real Philippine legal documents. It never generates case names or G.R. numbers — every result links to a real source you can verify.
Don't ask what the law is. See it.
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