BabelCite for your AI assistant
Connect your AI assistant to 165,000+ Hong Kong judgments. It searches, reads and checks cases itself, and cites the exact paragraph it relied on.
Why connect
No more made-up authorities
Ask an AI assistant for authorities and it answers from memory. It can misquote a judgment, or cite a case that does not exist. Connected to BabelCite, it works from the judgments themselves. Every case and paragraph number in its answer comes from the real text, with a link so you can check it in one click.
What it can do
Research the way you would
- Search
- By keyword, citation or party name, and by legal issue in plain English.
- Read
- Open a judgment and go straight to the paragraphs that matter.
- Follow citations
- See which cases a judgment relies on, and which later cases rely on it.
- Check treatment
- Read the paragraph where each later judgment cites a case.
Lookup or research
Ask a question, not for a case
Some legal connectors only fetch a judgment you already know. You give a name or a citation, and you get that case back. Finding the right cases is still your job. With BabelCite, you ask the legal question and the assistant does the research.
Lookup connector
- You supply the case name or citation
- Returns that one judgment
- You find the authorities yourself
- You check later treatment yourself
BabelCite
- You ask the legal question
- Searches 165,000+ judgments by issue and keyword
- Reads the relevant paragraphs and follows citations
- Checks how later judgments cited each case
A real example
One question, start to finish
“If a testator had dementia, does that mean he lacked testamentary capacity?”
- 1
Searched by legal issue
Two Court of Appeal decisions on dementia and capacity, [2018] HKCA 210 and [2019] HKCA 769.
- 2
Searched by keyword
A Court of Final Appeal decision in the same dispute, [2018] HKCFA 61.
- 3
Opened the Court of Final Appeal decision
Leave to appeal was refused, so the Court of Appeal decision stands.
- 4
Found and read the key paragraphs
- 5
Checked how later judgments cited it
Cited by 32 later judgments, most recently [2026] HKCFI 3635 at [23], which applies it.
Answer
No. The question is testamentary capacity, not dementia. Even where dementia is shown, what matters is how severe it was and how far it affected capacity when the will was signed: [2018] HKCA 210 at [47], quoting [2012] 2 HKLRD 148 at §35. The Court of Appeal said the same in [2019] HKCA 769 at [25].
Run with the trial connector on 22 Oct 2026. Steps shortened, citations as returned.
How it works
Built on an open standard
The connector uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for connecting AI assistants to outside sources. Any assistant that supports MCP connectors can use it. You add BabelCite once in your assistant's settings, and it can then search BabelCite whenever your question needs Hong Kong case law.
Limits
What it does not cover
- Hong Kong case law only. No legislation and no foreign cases.
- The collection is large but not complete. A case missing here may still exist.