Currently, training in legal and forensic aspects for both psychiatrists and residents is not regulated and is significantly scarce. However, concern on these areas has increased throughout recent years, and hence there are increasingly more young professionals interested in Psychiatry’s legal and forensic issues. Nevertheless, during the specialized training of residents, Legal Psychiatry is p...

In this paper we present our approach towards legal citation classification using incremental knowledge acquisition. This forms a part of our more ambitious goal of automatic legal text summarization. We created a large training and test corpus from court decision reports in Australia. We showed that, within less than a week, it is possible to develop a good quality knowledge base which conside...

INTRODUCTION Health care delivery in recent times has become more complicated, as patients expect health personnel to not only provide professional services but be accountable as well. It is thus imperative that health personnel are aware of their responsibility to the patient and also sensitive to medico legal issues if quality health care is to be assured. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was...

HE role and structure of the Hungarian legal profession both changed quite markedly after the changeover from the communist regime (1989), particularly because of the opportunities provided by the new market economy. The legal profession in Hungary is generally of a high standard because of the elitist approach which once prevailed in the university education system, reinforced by a technocrati...

An examination of Dutch research on legal case solving revealed that few law students get systematic instruction or testing in the technique of legal problem solving. The research being conducted at the Department of Computer Science and Law at the University of Amsterdam focuses on identifying the different functions in legal reasoning tasks in order to develop computational models which reali...

First, traditional legal education does not encourage creative thinking by students. Traditional Chinese legal education consists of teachers on the platform speaking and students in the audience listening—the “spoon-feeding” method. Teachers are the protagonists; students are passive recipients of legal theory. There are few discussions between teachers and students and examinations are a test...

This paper presents a methodology for helping citizens obtain guidance and training when submitting a natural language description of a legal case they are interested in. This is done via an automatic mechanism, which firstly extracts relevant legal concepts from the given textual description, by relying upon an underlying legal ontology built for such a purpose and an enrichment process based ...