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Avocado Legal lets your AI assistant search South African legislation, judgments, court rules, and legal commentary — and show you the actual source passages behind each answer.

It is a private research tool for approved users. It does not replace your own legal judgment.

Living corpus

The library grows every day — and stays under quality control

Avocado’s corpus is not a fixed snapshot. Official sites publish new gazettes, judgments, and practice material continuously. Our pipeline discovers, fetches, parses, embeds, and re-checks that material on an ongoing basis. Coverage and retrieval quality improve over time; gaps and imperfect OCR are expected while the library matures.

  1. Discover Scrapers watch court, government, and journal sources for new or changed documents.
  2. Fetch & store Files are downloaded, checksummed, and staged so we can skip unchanged content later.
  3. Parse & OCR PDFs and HTML become searchable text; image-heavy scans go through OCR where needed.
  4. Deduplicate & filter Content hashes, duplicate skips, and rights/quality rules keep noise and repeats out of search.
  5. Chunk & embed Text is split into passages and embedded into the private vector index used by search tools.
  6. Flag & repair Failed parses, missing files, and stale exports are queued for hydrate, retry, or operator review.
Operators can watch progress on the pipeline status dashboard and the corpus map. Those views are for approved operators; researchers mainly use the MCP connector.

How you can help

  • Report gaps — if an Act, judgment, or practice directive is missing or outdated, email the title, court/year, and a public URL if you have one.
  • Flag bad passages — garbled OCR, wrong document, broken link, or obvious duplicate: send the question, the source title/link Avocado showed, and what was wrong.
  • Prefer official sources — when suggesting material, judiciary.gov.za, concourt.org.za, and similar primary hosts are better than third-party mirrors.
  • Keep feedback anonymised — do not include client names or privileged facts in gap reports; see security & data.

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Before you connect

Read how we handle your data

Legal work is confidential. Before requesting access, please read the short security & data page: what Avocado receives when you search, where that traffic goes, what stays with your AI app, and what we do not store.

Read security & data handling

Avocado searches a legal corpus. It is not a place to upload client files. Your AI chat provider still sees whatever you type into the chat itself — that boundary is explained on the security page.

Step 1

Request access

Access is by invitation while we are in testing. Email us with:

  • Your name
  • The Google email address you will sign in with
  • Which AI app you use (e.g. Claude Desktop)

Request access by email

We will confirm once your account is approved. Please wait before trying to connect.

Step 2

Connect in Claude Desktop

Most users connect through Claude Desktop (the desktop app from Anthropic).

  1. Open Settings → Connectors
  2. Choose Add connector or Add custom connector
  3. Name it Avocado Legal
  4. Paste this address when asked for a URL:

https://avocado-mcp.scholtz.dpdns.org/sse

  1. Click Connect and sign in with your approved Google account
  2. Start a new chat and make sure the Avocado Legal connector is enabled
Using a different AI app? See the research guide or email support — we can help with setup.

Step 3

Try a real question

Once connected, ask a plain-language legal research question. Avocado searches the corpus and returns quoted source text with links.

You might ask

What must I show when bringing an urgent application in the motion court? Please search Avocado Legal and quote the source passages.

Avocado returns (excerpt from live search, 6 Jul 2026)

Motion Court: Practice Guidelines

“In cases of extreme urgency, the reasonable time afforded to the respondent to give notice of intention to oppose, is usually not less than 2 hours, excluding the hour between 13h00 and 14h00.”

“If the facts and circumstances set out in the applicant’s affidavits do not constitute sufficient urgency for the application to be brought as an urgent application … the court will decline to grant an order for the enrolment of the application as an urgent application … Save for a possible adverse cost order against the applicant the court will make no order on the application.”

Source: Motion Court Practice Guidelines (PDF, p. 8)

Good answers quote the source and give you a link to open the document. If the AI summarises without showing where it found the text, ask it to quote the sources again.

Next

Get more from Avocado

The research guide explains how to phrase questions, which types of sources to search, and practical tips for litigation, drafting, and opinion work. The security & data page covers query flow, retention, and firm hygiene.

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Help

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  • Sign-in rejected — your email may not be approved yet. Request access above.
  • Connector not found — restart Claude Desktop after adding the connector.
  • No useful results — try rephrasing; see the research guide for better question patterns.

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