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AFRICA · THE GAMBIA · COVERAGE ON REQUEST

The Gambia legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.

Gambian laws, regulations, and court decisions live across the Gambia Government Gazette, the National Assembly, government ministries, regulators, and the courts. Lawstronaut structures legal data from official sources into one format used across more than 150 jurisdictions — with every record linked to its official source. Structured The Gambia coverage is not yet live; Team and Enterprise customers can request priority onboarding of the sources below.

SEE IT ANSWER

Q

Which Gambian law sets out the framework for individual and collective labour relations?

A

The Labour Act, 2007 (Act No. 5 of 2007) is the principal statute governing individual and collective labour relations in The Gambia — covering contracts of employment, trade unions, and industrial relations — enacted by the National Assembly and published in the Gambia Government Gazette.

Source: Attorney General's Chambers & Ministry of Justice, The Gambia — moj.gm

Illustrative — The Gambia coverage is not yet live in the corpus; citation shown from the official source.

OFFICIAL SOURCES

The official Gambian sources on our roadmap

Lawstronaut structures Gambian legal materials from official government, ministry, court, and regulator sources. Once The Gambia coverage is live, each record links back to its original source, with metadata such as issuing authority, publication date, legal link, portal, content type, and version where available.

Source categories: legislation and gazette sources · the legislature · government ministries and agencies · regulators · courts and tribunals

  • Gambia Government Gazette (Government Printer)
  • National Assembly of The Gambia
  • Attorney General's Chambers & Ministry of Justice
  • Central Bank of The Gambia (CBG)
  • Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA)
  • Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA)
  • Gambia Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (GCCPC)
  • Gambia Investment and Export Promotion Agency (GIEPA)
  • Supreme Court of The Gambia
  • Judiciary of The Gambia (Court of Appeal & High Court)
The Gambia isn't live yet — request priority coverage → Team and Enterprise customers can request the portals, courts, regulators, gazettes, and official sources they need onboarded first, reviewed and prioritized by the Lawstronaut team.
CONTENT TYPES

Gambian legal source types we structure

Gambian legal coverage will include primary legislation, secondary legislation, regulatory materials, court decisions, guidance, enforcement documents, and legislative history where available.

Legislation & Regulations

Acts of the National Assembly, subsidiary legislation (regulations, statutory instruments, and orders), and the consolidated Laws of The Gambia (2009 Revised Edition), taken directly from the Gambia Government Gazette and official publications.

Legislative History

Bills, order papers, and parliamentary materials from the National Assembly of The Gambia where available, version by version, each tied to its source.

Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement

Directives, notices, circulars, and enforcement materials from Gambian regulators such as the Central Bank of The Gambia, the Gambia Revenue Authority, PURA, and the GCCPC.

Case Law

Court and tribunal decisions from official and authoritative Gambian sources, including the Supreme Court of The Gambia, the Court of Appeal, and the High Court, where available.

WHAT YOU GET

One Gambian legal data layer. Four ways to use it.

Lawstronaut API

Query Gambian laws, regulations, court decisions, regulatory guidance, and enforcement materials through a REST API. Use structured metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and version history to power legaltech products, compliance workflows, and internal research tools. The Gambia coverage is being onboarded — the endpoint below is live and will return records as coverage lands.

GET /v2/contents?iso=GM&limit=20

Lawstronaut MCP

Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Gambian legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Gambian materials — deployable in minutes, with no integration work, once coverage is live.

AI Agent Integration

Give your legal AI agent same-turn provenance: it retrieves current Gambian legal materials — official source links, metadata, and full text — before generating an answer, with a citation and timestamp on every response.

Build with Lawstronaut

Build Gambian legal search, monitoring, compliance, research, and legal AI features without crawling, parsing, normalizing, and updating official sources yourself. We handle source discovery, ingestion, normalization, versioning, and change detection; you build the product.

FEATURES

What you'll be able to do with Gambian legal data

  • Retrieve legal metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and original source files where available
  • Filter by jurisdiction, portal, issuing authority, authority type, language, status, and dates
  • Access official legal links for citation and audit trails — citation, timestamp, and source link returned in the same turn
  • Track point-in-time versions and article-level changes across Gambian legal materials
  • Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Gambian law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
  • Connect AI agents to official Gambian sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
  • Build internal Gambian legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
WHY LAWSTRONAUT

Why Lawstronaut for Gambian legal research

Gambian legal information is spread across the gazette, the National Assembly, government ministries, statutory regulators, and the courts. For humans, that means slow research. For AI systems, it's a bigger problem: fragmented source access, inconsistent formats, missing provenance, and weak citation trails.

Lawstronaut turns those sources into one structured legal data layer — source links, metadata, full text, versioning, and API/MCP access. Your product or agent retrieves the legal source directly instead of relying on generic web search or unverified model memory. Every answer carries a citation, a timestamp, and a link to the official document — the provenance that makes a legal research platform defensible to auditors and regulators.

About The Gambia legal coverage

The Gambia is a common-law jurisdiction whose legal system derives from English common law received during British colonial rule, operating alongside customary law and Sharia — the latter applied in Cadi courts for personal-status matters among Muslims. The 1997 Constitution of the Second Republic is the supreme law. Primary legislation is enacted by the unicameral National Assembly and published in the Gambia Government Gazette, with consolidated statutes appearing in the Laws of The Gambia (2009 Revised Edition). The court hierarchy runs from the Supreme Court of The Gambia (apex) through the Court of Appeal, the High Court, Magistrates' Courts, Cadi Courts, and District Tribunals. Legislation and court proceedings are conducted in English.

Gambian law has moved quickly since the political transition of 2017: a Constitutional Review Commission produced a draft 2020 Constitution (rejected by the National Assembly in 2020, with renewed reform efforts since), the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission reported in 2021, and reforms across access to information, elections, and the security sector continue to reshape the statute book — so citations to outdated provisions can simply be wrong. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps a Gambia legal research answer correct today.

BUILT FOR

Built for

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Legaltech companies

Build Gambian legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.

02

Compliance & GRC teams

Monitor Gambian regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.

03

AI builders

Ground legal AI answers in official Gambian legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.

04

Internal legal teams

Give lawyers and business users faster access to Gambian legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.

FAQ

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