Announcements – Decree Blog https://blog.decree.om Mon, 19 Jan 2026 04:06:13 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://i0.wp.com/blog.decree.om/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/favicon-decree.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Announcements – Decree Blog https://blog.decree.om 32 32 197035704 Introducing: Decree Mobile App https://blog.decree.om/2026/introducing-decree-mobile-app/ Mon, 19 Jan 2026 03:33:47 +0000 https://blog.decree.om/?p=3652 We are releasing today the Decree mobile app, a major new expansion of Decree’s platform that allows Decree members to bring the full power of Lex AI with them wherever they go.

The app, available on iOS and Android, allows members to search legislation, ask questions, and view related sources directly from their phones. This capability enables users to leverage Decree’s artificial intelligence legal research assistant without having to be seated at a desktop computer.

As part of our launch, we are providing unrestricted mobile access to all Decree members for one month, regardless of your current plan.

After this introductory month, mobile app access will be exclusive to users who have the web-based version of Lex AI included in their subscription bundle.

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You can also download the app directly on your device by scanning the code below:

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Introducing: Lex AI “Spotlight” https://blog.decree.om/2025/introducing-lex-ai-spotlight-feature/ Mon, 01 Sep 2025 03:45:17 +0000 https://blog.decree.om/?p=3368 We are releasing today Lex AI Spotlight, a major new feature to Decree’s artificial intelligence legal research assistant that allows Decree members to ask Lex AI questions about the specific item that they are already viewing.

For example, when a member views the Personal Income Tax Law, a new Ask Lex button will appear on the corner of the page. The user can use this command to ask questions about the Personal Income Tax Law without having to query Decree’s entire database. This process is usually faster and can provide more accurate answers when the user needs information from a single specific item.

When Lex AI Spotlight is unable to find the answer in the currently viewed item, the user will be advised to use the full version of Lex AI.

Lex AI and Lex AI Spotlight are available through a bundle subscription to Decree. They are available for free for all Decree members on all subscription plans for the whole of the month of September.

You can try Lex AI Spotlight on most pages on Decree, including the Personal Income Tax Law, the Penal Law, the Personal Data Protection Law, and many more.

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Lex AI on GPT-5 https://blog.decree.om/2025/lex-ai-on-gpt-5/ Sun, 10 Aug 2025 10:08:45 +0000 https://blog.decree.om/?p=3346 Lex AI, Decree’s artificial intelligence legal research assistance, receives a major update today by upgrading to GPT-5, the new cutting-edge artificial intelligence model from OpenAI.

Lex AI generates its answers exclusively from Decree’s database of translated Omani legislation and case summaries while providing full citations and references for all answers generated. Using GPT-5, Lex AI now runs at a faster speed and provides significantly improved analysis of Decree’s content to answer user questions, summarise the law, and create compliance checklists.

Decree members with access to Lex AI can try the new and improved Lex AI on the link below:

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Introducing: Decree Toolkits https://blog.decree.om/2025/introducing-decree-toolkits/ Tue, 24 Jun 2025 05:45:11 +0000 https://blog.decree.om/?p=3184 We are launching today Decree Toolkits—a new feature on Decree for helping organisations improve their compliance operations by identifying key obligations imposed by Omani legislation.

While Lex AI is capable of generating compliance checklists, Decree Toolkits goes beyond this by providing a curated collection of easy to use checklists that are reviewed and verified by our legal team. Each toolkit provides key information regarding the application of the item in question along with a breakdown of the key obligations imposed and a highlight of potential fines for failing to comply. Decree Toolkits are also downloadable in Excel and adopt a structure commonly used by compliance practitioners in Oman, which should allow our users to download our checklists and customize them to work with their workflows.

When a Toolkit is available for a specific item on Decree, a new Toolkit button will be displayed on the page of the law or regulation in question:

It is also possible to browse all available Toolkits on the main Decree Toolkits page and also look them up using the standard Decree search.

Decree Toolkits is available through a bundle subscription to Decree. It is available for free for all Decree members on all subscription plans until the end of the month of July.

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New Update and Tools for the Oman Legal Citation Standard (OLCS) https://blog.decree.om/2025/new-update-and-tools-for-the-oman-legal-citation-standard-olcs/ Sun, 25 May 2025 06:16:41 +0000 https://blog.decree.om/?p=3097 The Oman Legal Citation Standard (OLCS) was first launched in 2016 as a guide for creating a standard format for citing Omani legal authorities in academic works and legal documents. The previous version of the OLCS only covered the rules for citing Omani legislation of all levels. We updated the OLCS to include new rules for citing Omani court judgments as well as Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs fatwas.

We are also launching today new automation tools for generating OLCS compliant citation. You can now use a Citation Assistant on the OLCS website to easily generate legislation, cases, and fatwas citations. A similar feature has also been added to the free Decree Chrome Extension to allow you to quickly generate citations directly from your browser toolbar.

You can view the OLCS and use our new tools on the link below:

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Lex AI Update https://blog.decree.om/2025/lex-ai-update/ Thu, 15 May 2025 04:11:33 +0000 https://blog.decree.om/?p=3083 We received a lot of feedback from the use of Lex AI by the members of Decree over the past couple of weeks, and this enabled us to better understand how our members use the service and the kind of answers they expect. Based on this feedback, we made several changes to Lex AI:

– Lex AI is now fully conversational and appears as a chat thread to make it easier for the user to continue conversing with Lex. Even though the original version of Lex had conversational capabilities, the tool behaved more as a single question single answer tool.

– Lex AI question box now allows you to insert a larger amount of text that appears as a paragraph block. The original version of Lex accepted a smaller amount of text that was limited to a single line in the search box.

– Lex AI now lets you copy the text using a share button under each response message. This is useful for individuals who need to use the answers generated by Lex.

– To improve the quality of the answers, Lex by default will not include in its analysis any repealed law. If the user wishes for repealed laws to be considered, the user would have to check a new box for this above the chat box message. This is usually necessary for comparing differences between an old and a new law.

– We also made some technical improvements to the logic of Lex to improve the quality of the answers.

Decree members on all membership bundles have free access to Lex AI until the end of May. If you have not used it until now, we highly encourage you to do so. Please make sure to use the vote buttons to help us improve the service.

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Introducing: Lex AI https://blog.decree.om/2025/lex-ai/ Thu, 01 May 2025 03:34:38 +0000 https://blog.decree.om/?p=3031 We are delighted to launch Lex AI—Decree’s artificial intelligence legal research assistant. This tool enables Decree members to use natural language to ask legal questions, generate summaries, create compliance checklists, and carry out a variety of other legal tasks.

Lex AI is built using state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technology to generate its answers exclusively from Decree’s database of translated Omani legislation and case summaries, and it provides citations and references for all answers generated.

Lex AI is available through a bundle subscription to Decree. It is available for free for all Decree members on all subscription plans for the whole of the month of May.

We highly encourage Decree members to try out Lex AI and use the rating buttons to evaluate the quality of the responses. We are going to use this feedback to review the performance of the model and make any necessary adjustments.

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Decree Search Goes Advanced https://blog.decree.om/2025/decree-search-goes-advanced/ Thu, 20 Mar 2025 04:47:35 +0000 https://blog.decree.om/?p=2964 We are adding a new search engine for Decree with Advanced Search options such as search in title only, exact phrase, date range, and the option to select a mix of legislation types and legislation issuers to filter the results.

Our extremely fast original search engine will remain the primary search engine associated with our search button, and those wishing to utilise the new advanced search options will be able to quickly access the new search form from the search side bar.

We have built this new search form with power users in mind who need to conduct a thorough research of our database. If you would like to see additional options and filters added to the new search form, feel free to get in touch with us.

Advanced Search is available to all Decree members.

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Introducing: Decree Alerts Chrome Extension https://blog.decree.om/2025/introducing-decree-alerts-chrome-extension/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 05:21:50 +0000 https://blog.decree.om/?p=2940 Today we are launching Decree Alerts, a free Chrome extension that provides users with alerts on new items published on Decree along with the ability to quickly search Decree directly from within the extension.

You can download the Decree Alerts extension from the Chrome Web Store:

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MSX Disclosures on Decree Risk https://blog.decree.om/2025/msx-disclosures-on-decree-risk/ Thu, 06 Mar 2025 05:20:12 +0000 https://blog.decree.om/?p=2929 We are announcing today the addition of Muscat Stock Exchange Disclosures to Decree Risk, which makes it possible to search for the contents of these disclosures, receive email alerts for disclosures made by companies tracked using Risk Watchlist, and subscribe to a new MSX Digest daily newsletter.

Decree Risk used to cover risk incidents relating to liquidations, capital reduction, legal form transformation, and other risk incidents announced in the Official Gazette and daily newspapers. We are expanding the scope of Decree Risk by adding details on disclosures made by companies listed on the Muscat Stock Exchange. Our database populates new disclosures within minutes of their release on the MSX and lets users search the full content of the PDF file of the disclosure, which can be extremely useful for any person doing due diligence research on a company.

Adding MSX Disclosures to Decree Risk means that you can also track these disclosures using Risk Watchlist to receive immediate email alerts for specific companies you want to monitor. We also have a new Watchlist Assistant to help you quickly track some of the most popular companies on the MSX such as Abraj, Bank Muscat, Omantel, Ooredoo, OQGN, and many more.

For those who do not need to have individual emails for each disclosure made by a company they follow, it is also possible to subscribe to a new MSX Daily Digest newsletter to see a list of all the disclosures made the day before along with any circulars or decisions published by the MSX.

Outside Decree Risk, we now also include decisions and circulars issued by Muscat Stock Exchange as part of Decree Legislation, which means that you can find items such as MSX’s Dividend Distribution Policy Guidelines for Listed Companies on Decree.

Decree Risk is available through a bundle subscription to Decree. Certain qualifying users will have it for free until the end of their current contracts.

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