- From: Adam Wood <adam.michael.wood@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 08:52:56 -0500
- To: public-vocabs@w3.org
Plus, the idea that a legal decision is a "Creative Work" is just kinda weird. Legal decisions are part of a larger body of "The Law" generally, and I would think that there would be value in finding a way to schema-tize the whole of it- from Consitutions to Contracts, from Regulations to corporate by-laws to Church canons. Sounds like a project. On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Michael Below <below@judiz.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I am wondering if there is a schema for legal decisions. Legal cases are > usually documented in specialized databases, but more and more cases are > published on the internet and can be searched there. Finding relevant > decisions would be easier if there was a common way to describe them. > > There are these properties of a legal decision I can think of: > > Necessary ones: > - The court, e.g. Landgericht Berlin, Germany > - The acting part of that court, by function and/or by name, e.g. 51. > Zivilkammer > - The date of the decision > - The filing number > - the type of the decision (e.g. judgement, interim decision) > > Optional ones: > - related decisions, e.g. previous decisons of lower courts, later > decisions of higher courts on the same case - this is not always linear, > cases can go back an forth > - the parties > - the main legal norms that have been applied by the court > - the main subject of the case, often mentioned in form of tags, e.g. > "contract law, internet, e-commerce" or "waste disposal, environment, > dumping" > - the central theses of the decision, an enumeration of the key rulings > - publications of the judgement, in journals or databases > - articles, books, decisions that refer to the decision > > I don't really know where this might fit into your current hierarchy, > parts of "CreativeWork" seem applicable, but a lot of context is lost if > you treat a decision as a simple article. > > Cheers > > Michael > > -- > Michael Below <below@judiz.de> > > >
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