Abstract
Stories and legal cases have much in common, but there are also differences.
Both can be seen as a sequence of events, but in a legal case
the facts and events are legally qualified. Moreover, the point of a story
is usually implicit, whereas the outcome of a legal case is explicitly explained.
Stories have been mainly used in AI and Law to explore the
evidence presented in legal cases, but here we will explore the relationship
on the assumption the facts of the case have already been established,
and so include legal qualification and the decision. We illustrate
our approach the well known wild animals and Popov v Hayashi cases.
Both can be seen as a sequence of events, but in a legal case
the facts and events are legally qualified. Moreover, the point of a story
is usually implicit, whereas the outcome of a legal case is explicitly explained.
Stories have been mainly used in AI and Law to explore the
evidence presented in legal cases, but here we will explore the relationship
on the assumption the facts of the case have already been established,
and so include legal qualification and the decision. We illustrate
our approach the well known wild animals and Popov v Hayashi cases.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Legal Knowledge and Information Systems. JURIX 2015: The Twenty Eight Annual Conference. |
| Publisher | IOS Press |
| Pages | 11-20 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Publication series
| Name | Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications |
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| Publisher | IOS Press |
| Volume | 279 |