| name | sgcite |
| title | sgcite — Singapore Court Citation Checker |
| description | Use when verifying Singapore court citations in legal submissions, checking for hallucinated cases in AI-generated text, or validating citations against eLitigation. |
| author | LegalQuants |
| author_url | https://github.com/LegalQuants/lq-skills/tree/main/skills/sgcite |
| license | Apache-2.0 |
| version | 0.1.0 |
| execution_mode | open |
| jurisdiction | sg |
| practice | litigation |
| language | en |
| tags | ["citation","singapore","legal-research","hallucination-detection","elitigation"] |
sgcite — Singapore Court Citation Checker
When to Use
- Reviewing legal submissions before filing
- Checking AI-generated legal text for hallucinated citations
- Verifying that cited Singapore cases actually exist in eLitigation
- Detecting fabricated case names, paragraph references, or distorted quotations
- Routine citation audit for Singapore law documents
How It Works
Input
A legal text (submission, memo, brief, AI-generated draft) containing Singapore court citations.
Process
- Extract — Parse all case citations from the text
- Validate — Query eLitigation (Singapore's case law database) for each citation
- Check — Detect:
- Hallucinated authorities (case doesn't exist)
- Mismatched case names (case exists but different party names)
- Fabricated paragraph references
- Distorted quotations
- Report — Flag each issue with specific location and explanation
Output
✓ 5 citations verified
✗ 2 issues found:
- [Para 23] "ABC v DEF [2023] SGHC 45" — Case not found in eLitigation
- [Para 41] Quotation distorted — actual text differs from cited passage
Example
npx sgcite check ./my-submission.docx
Or import as a library in your legal workflow tools.
Audience and Work Shape
Audience: Singapore-qualified lawyers, paralegals, and litigation-support teams running a pre-filing or pre-circulation citation check. Not for unsupervised drafting or non-lawyer use.
Work shape: Pattern-Matched Review. Each citation is checked against a known reference (eLitigation). Output is a list of findings, not a sign-off.
Scope and Legal Use
This skill provides legal support, not legal advice. A verified result means "the cited case was found in eLitigation with matching party names" — not "this citation is correctly used in your submission" and not "this submission is fit to file."
Privilege and confidentiality. sgcite sends extracted citation text (and quoted passages, when checking for distorted quotations) to eLitigation. Do not invoke on privileged or unfiled draft material unless your firm has assessed that routing the cited extracts through a public case-law database is acceptable. Configure the tool to send citation strings only (not surrounding context) where possible.
Accountability. A qualified lawyer must review each flagged and each citation before filing or circulating the submission. The skill does not sign off on accuracy of use, substantive correctness, or fitness to file.
