Modelling reasoning about evidence in legal procedure

  • Authors:
  • Henry Prakken

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This article investigates the modelling of reasoning about evidence in legal procedure. To this end, a dialogue game model of the relevant parts of Dutch civil procedure is developed with three players: two adversaries and a judge. The model aims to be both legally realistic and technically well-founded. Legally, the main achievement is a more realistic account of the judge's role in legal procedures than that provided by current models. Technically, the model aims to preserve the features of an earlier-developed framework for two-player argumentative dialogue systems.