highlighting the driving cause and its strict relationship with the formal cause and especially the final cause in the intrinsic elements of natural justice has caused the duality of reason and natural justice in the thinking of the proponents of the reason as the source. since the same emphasis makes the full understanding of the mechanisms of natural justice and its content for the human wisd...

This paper addresses the problems that lawyers experience retrieving information from legal-text databases. Traditional access mechanisms of text databases require users to know how information is stored. I will propose a method for index organisation which shields lawyers from the internal storage structures and which allows them to address the legal databases in their own legal terms. The pro...

Classical Description Logic has been widely used as a basis for ontology creation and reasoning in many knowledge specific domains. These specific domains naturally include Legal Artificial Intelligence. As in any other domain, consistency is an important issue for legal ontologies. However, due to their inherently normative feature, coherence (consistency) in legal ontologies is more subtle th...

Lawyers and the legal system have been much criticized in recent years. Despite popular perceptions, the legal system contains numerous mechanisms and rules designed to ensure fair results. This paper shows how the legal system tries to implement, in commercial transactions, the ethical principles of truthfulness and fairness. The AngloAmerican development of Equity Courts is reviewed briefly. ...