A new website
avokata.com moved to a new design: examples from the live service, coverage with each source's date, the workflows, a setup prompt when you connect, and a dark theme. In Lithuanian and English.
Whose words
Every excerpt of a ruling, in search and when reading, says whose words it is: the court's interpretation, its findings, a party's argument (naming the party), the lower court's reasoning, quoted law or an indirect citation. The citation check shows every place the text was found and warns when it is a party's argument. The labels are preliminary until lawyers confirm them.
Case numbers, codes and the citator
Case numbers show in the court's own format everywhere, and can be typed in any format. A code reference means the code's own article, not the law that enacted it. The citator lists the newest first and is more complete. Selection-panel decisions are left out of search by default. Versions not yet in force are marked with their date.
300 searches a day, signed in
During the beta a signed-in account has 300 searches a day and data without delay.
EU legislation
EUR-Lex joined the Lithuanian sources: EU regulations and directives, included when a question falls in an area the EU regulates.
The first sources
e-TAR legal acts with their consolidated versions, and anonymised Supreme Court and Supreme Administrative Court rulings, read by article and numbered paragraph.