A legal judgment is a document which provides an explanation of the court order concerning a legal case. The legal data is being digitized and is being made available in digital format for access by legal practitioners and the general public. Also, the legal data is continuously growing with the judgments being delivered. In common law based legal systems, legal practitioners refer to the previ...

Drug and alcohol abusers frequently have legal difficulties, and the legal system often provides negative reinforcement for substance abuse treatment. In contrast, contingency management (CM) treatments utilize positive reinforcement procedures to improve patient outcomes. This study evaluated whether substance-abusing patients with legal problems at treatment entry had differential outcomes, i...

This paper examines the interest of lawyers as a group in the level of legal complexity, assuming that lawyers prefer the level of legal complexity that maximizes their total income. I focus on aspects of the law that are the same across all cases in a particular legal field, such as the rule determining whether the defendant is liable or guilty, the rules of procedure, and the scope of damages...

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Prioritisation of cases and resources as a means of rationing the limited legal aid budget has recently become a feature of access to justice in the UK. This article explores the utility of devising proxy models of ‘legal need’ as a means of enabling the rational and equitable planning of legal services in these circumstances. Different conceptual and methodological approaches are considered, h...

In jurisprudence methodological shifts of practical significance have seldom or never happened overnight. The discussion concerning legal methods and legal reasoning has been a challenge primarily for legal philosophers and many legal movements basically mirror a theoretical development. Nor is it always an easy task to elucidate methodological aspects related to legal reasoning in works of jur...

This paper investigates how the logical aspects of legal language determine possibilities to attack and defend arguments in a dispute. An argumentation framework in logic-programming style is presented which can cope with the interplay between assumptions, applicability statements and reasoning about preference relations between norms. The theory is given a solid semantic foundation, and can be...