Evaluating Cases in Legal Disputes as Rival Theories
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چکیده
In this paper we propose to draw a link from the quantitative notion of coherence, previously used to evaluate rival scientific theories, to legal reasoning. We evaluate the story of the plaintiff and the defendant in a legal case as rival theories by measuring how well they cohere when accounting for the evidence. We show that this gives rise to a formalized comparison between rival cases that account for the same set of evidence, and provide possible explanations as to why judgements may favour one side over the other. We illustrate our approach by applying it to a known legal dispute.
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