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The AI assistant is designed to answer from a verified library of Zambian judgments and legislation and from approved public legal sources, and it is instructed to say when a judgment's text is unavailable rather than to speculate. Even so, AI systems can misstate the law, misattribute a proposition to a case, or reference a provision inaccurately.

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