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Search Philippine law — real, cited, and ranked by authority.

Ask in plain English or Filipino. BatasDB reads a verified library of Supreme Court decisions and Republic Acts, ranks results by legal authority, and summarizes only what it actually found.

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History

Writ of Amparo habeas corpus

2h ago

right to counsel during custodial investigation

5h ago

just compensation eminent domain

1d ago

illegal dismissal burden of proof

2d ago

Republic Act 9262 VAWC penalties

3d ago

Legal Search

Search Philippine laws and Supreme Court cases in plain English.

What is the Writ of Amparo?

4 results 143 ms

AI Summary

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.

SC Decision G.R. No. 214830

96% match

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…

Digest Source

SC Decision G.R. No. 198742

91% match

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…

Digest Source

The flow

What happens when you search.

Four steps, usually under 200 milliseconds from start to finish. Each step has its own job — and none of them makes up facts.

01

You ask in plain language.

Type a question the way you'd ask a lawyer — in English, Filipino, or a mix. You can also paste a specific citation ("G.R. No. 214830", "Article 315 RPC") and go straight to it. No special symbols, no keyword guessing.
02

We search Philippine law only.

Two searches run side by side — one that matches meaning, one that matches exact text — across roughly 320,000 sections of Supreme Court decisions and Philippine statutes. Nothing foreign, nothing made up, nothing outside our library.
03

We rank by legal authority, not just text match.

A tax circular isn't the Constitution. An SC en banc ruling outweighs a division decision on the same question. Results are ordered by how much authority a document actually carries — so the binding answer comes up first.
04

A short summary, based only on what we found.

A plain-English summary reads only the matching passages and cites them back. It never invents legal text. If the answer isn't in our library, the summary says so instead of guessing.

What we cover

Philippine law only.

A focused library makes for a sharper search. BatasDB only covers the laws and rulings that actually bind a Philippine court — nothing else.

Supreme Court decisions: En banc, division, and per curiam rulings from the e-Library, refreshed regularly.
Republic Acts & Codes: Full statute text, split where the law itself splits (section, article, paragraph) — so every result is citable.
Freshness: Newly published SC decisions and newly enacted statutes are added on a rolling schedule. Repealed provisions are flagged.
Scope: Philippine law only. No U.S. case law, no UK statutes, no legal blogs cluttering your results.

For builders

Build your own AI assistant on our API.

The same search that powers BatasDB is available as an API. Point your internal tools or AI assistant at a single endpoint and get grounded, authority-ranked Philippine law back as clean JSON — no scraping, no foreign case law, no made-up citations.

See how it works

One call covers

• Supreme Court, CTA & Sandiganbayan decisions
• Republic Acts, Codes & the Constitution
• Agency issuances — BIR, BSP, SEC, DOLE, DILG

Go deeper

Read the details.

The short version is above. For the how-and-why behind each stage:

Deep dive

How search works.

Why we read questions and laws differently, how we combine meaning-based and exact-text matching, and why we split laws the way they split themselves.

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