This is the sort of area where the project might have some pitfalls, to be honest.
Crowdsourcing the material is certainly possible, but it's not for the squeamish: you'd need at least a warning that the judgments contain descriptions of violent attacks, rape and child abuse. Trying to automatedly extract this information is hard unless words like 'misdirect' show up, and even then you have to watch out for a negation elsewhere. As I say, I'm interested in whether there's any precedent for doing this sort of thing even semi-reliably. Nick PS By the way, alternative name: theybangyouup.com? On 4 January 2011 00:20, Tim Green <[email protected]> wrote: > It looks like it might be possible to reasonably crowd-source whether or > not a decision is critical of the judge, within a lay-person's ability, > though that was a particularly strong criticism and perhaps easier to read > than the norm. > > A person (or algorithm looking for particular language) could tag > sentences/paragraphs they particularly feel backs up their choice, to make > moderation easier. > > It'd be educational to give people a peek at how the legal system works, > with all the caveats Francis mentioned, anyway. > > -t > > > On 03/01/2011 23:17, Francis Davey wrote: > >> Reading an appeal decision its clear when judges are really being >> criticised (and to what degree). For example the now retired HHJ >> Cotran was very trenchantly criticised in: >> >> http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2006/281.html >> >> who alluded to earlier criticism of the same judge in: >> >> http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2004/434.html >> >> It would be great to pick up that sort of case and find ways to remove >> judges who behave in such an awful fashion. I'm just not happy about >> finding judges who do their jobs properly but (for whatever reason) >> have decisions overturned on appeal. >> >> I appreciate you are focussing on the criminal division which will >> mostly be appeals against directions, which may be closer to the mark. >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >
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