DGSI & Diário da República in Your AI Client
From Question to Official Source.
Research Portuguese legislation, official publications, and court decisions from your AI client. Lauyer helps you choose the source, locate the relevant text, and keep verification on DGSI and Diário da República central to the work.
Does changing a fixed-term employment contract require legislation, case law, or both?
Diário da República
Legislation, legal acts, and official publications
DGSI
Judicial decisions published by Portuguese courts
Two Sources, Different Roles
Diário da República and DGSI answer different questions. Keeping their roles distinct prevents a decision from being treated as legislation or a summary as official text.
Diário da República
Search acts and official publications when you need to identify the published text, date, type of act, or relevant amendments.
DGSI
Search decisions when you need to understand how courts approached an issue, which reasoning they used, and which authority deserves full reading.
Choose Before You Search
A professional question can be statutory, case-law based, or mixed. The starting point changes, but verification always ends with the relevant original text.
What kind of authority can answer the verifiable part of this question?
Diário da República
Start with legislation or an official publication to identify the act, relevant wording, date, and related instruments.
DGSI
Start with judicial decisions to find the reasoning, procedural context, and approaches relevant to the issue.
Both Sources
Read the published text, then the decisions interpreting or applying it. Compare dates to avoid mixing versions and contexts.
Research for Real Work
Portugal is the jurisdiction of the sources. The research serves any person or team that needs to work responsibly with Portuguese law.
Locate acts and decisions for advice, filings, research notes, or academic review while keeping the original authority central to the analysis.
Identify relevant publications and find decisions that help explain how particular obligations were applied in specific disputes.
Research employment legislation and judicial decisions to frame policies, procedures, and workplace questions before specialist review.
Research the framework for contracts, operations, and regulatory obligations without confusing legal information with advice on a specific matter.
Verification Desk
Lauyer organizes results and can generate summaries for triage. A professional conclusion still depends on the original source, the applicable version, and human review.
DR · Original Source
Act, number, date, publication, and available text
DGSI · Original Source
Court, case, date, decision, and available text
Summary Limit
An AI summary can omit exceptions, misread the text, or miss later developments. It supports triage and initial understanding, but is not a legal source or a final conclusion.
Search, Retrieval & Summary
Searches and retrievals use request units. Summaries use a separate AI-summary allowance. This keeps access to original sources distinct from AI-generated assistance.
Pro costs €10 per month and includes 1,000 request units and 40 AI summaries in each UTC calendar month, shared across all tools. You can also buy €10 to €50 in credits without Pro. Each euro adds 100 request units and 4 AI summaries; the lot expires 12 months after payment.
Before Your First Search
Lauyer searches Diário da República for Portuguese legislation and official publications, and DGSI for court decisions. It does not currently provide a dedicated source for European Union directives.
Start with Diário da República when you need to identify an act, official publication, published wording, date, or related instruments. Then confirm status and relevant amendments in the official text.
Start with DGSI when the question depends on how courts have decided, interpreted, or applied a rule. Select relevant decisions and read the available text and procedural context.
Yes. Many questions require identifying the published rule first and then finding decisions that apply it. The tools remain separate so each search can use terms, filters, and dates suited to its source.
Lauyer retrieves the public content made available by the source, including full text when it exists on the official page. Availability and content structure depend on Diário da República or DGSI.
No. Every search queries the source when requested, but availability, coverage, and indexing depend on the official source. Your selected terms, filters, and dates also shape the results.
They support triage and initial understanding of an act or decision. They can omit exceptions or misread the text. Always confirm material statements at the original source and check later developments.
Avoid professional secrets, unpublished facts, and unnecessary personal data. Search terms go to the source queried. For an AI summary, the relevant legal text also goes to the AI providers described in the AI and data information.
You need a Lauyer account and an AI client supporting remote HTTP MCP and OAuth. Authorization takes place in the browser. Confirm these capabilities in your client’s current documentation.
No. Lauyer provides structured access to the public sources it integrates, but does not provide doctrine, its own editorial annotation, or every feature of a commercial legal database.
No. Lauyer helps search, retrieve, and summarize sources. Selecting, interpreting, and applying information to a specific matter requires professional assessment and confirmation at the official source.
Searching or retrieving a source uses request units. Generating a summary also calls an AI provider and uses a separate allowance. This distinction lets you access sources without automatically turning every request into an AI operation.
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