In the paper, problems of legal information digitalization are investigated. Conditions for extraction information from legal texts related to the common ones processing (non-legal terms) are outlined. Sample results of similarity analysis are presented. Further research aimed at semantic analysis of legal texts are outlined.

This research explores how and to what extent Semantic Web techniques can implement Hohfeldian legal concepts. Laws and regulations are forms of rules in natural language. Because laws are objective and formal, they are suitable for specification with formal logic. Hohfeldian legal concepts are an important tool for the explicit creation of normative legal relationships between the parties. The...

Systematic efforts to assess the legal landscape for the ordinary citizen what legal services cost and what fraction of that cost is for real value have been few and far between. Most studies focus instead on the performance of the legal system for corporate clients or on the delivery of legal services to the poor as a form of charity or welfare assistance. This article reviews and compares the...

The importance of language and terminology for the law and the jurisprudence is beyond question because language is a central subject of a lawyer's work (Hatz 1963, Salton/McGill 1983). The particularity of the legal language is the use of a special vocabulary of legal terms which are used to express definite concepts. The presence of a particular term has specific connotations. Legal thinking ...

This article focusses on the specific impact of the cuts in legal aid funding on the charitable sector. The sector plays a significant role in advice giving. Some charities have the provision of legal advice as their sole purpose, whilst the work of other charities includes the giving of legal advice. Funding comes via a number of sources including legal aid, local authorities and charitable tr...

Asian victims of Japanese imperialism have filed lawsuits against the Japanese government and corporations since the 1990s, which became prime sites for redress decades after Japan’s defeat in World War II. As this ethnography demonstrates, this process paradoxically exposes a legal lacuna within this emergent transnational legal space, with plaintiffs effectively caught between the law, instea...

Social workers in all practice areas are affected by interactions with the law and legal systems. Unfortunately, the profession has paid inadequate attention to education, scholarship, and practice in legal environments. This article introduces a new perspective for examining social work and the law called "therapeutic jurisprudence," which emanates from psychology/mental health law. Therapeuti...

. The Legal Consultancy Game is the game of giving legal advice professionally. It aims to be a description in general terms of the predictable patterns in an advice transaction between a consultant and a client. It is also a description of what the client demands of good legal advice. There are good reasons to describe consultancy as a game-like activity. Firstly, it shows how legal consultanc...

medical ethics is a realm where four important subjects of philosophy, medicine, theology and law are covered. physicians and philosophers cooperation in this area will have great efficiency in the respective ethical rules formation. in addition to respect the autonomy of the patient, physician's obligation is to ensure that the medical intervention has benefit for the patient and the harm is m...