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Legal Search in the Swiss Judicial Decisions: Problems and Solutions

  • Authors: Blaise Dévaud / Franz Kummer
  • Category: Articles
  • Region: Switzerland
  • Field of law: LegalTech
  • Citation: Blaise Dévaud / Franz Kummer, Legal Search in the Swiss Judicial Decisions: Problems and Solutions, in: Jusletter IT Flash 17. August 2017
The paper presents the main problems related to lawyers’ due diligence in the context of the legal search in the Swiss judicial decisions. It starts with a brief discussion of the general problem of information overload, and then delves into two specific problems related to the leading cases of the Swiss federal courts and to the uncertainty about the binding force of the decisions of the Swiss cantonal courts. The paper moves on to the solutions, describing the general conditions for a high quality legal search in the Swiss case law databases and proposing two particular improvements (automatic recognition of similar decisions and automatic links between decisions from the same case).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Problems
  • 2.1. Information Overload
  • 2.2. Choice between the Leading Cases and other Judgments
  • 2.3. Uncertainty about the Binding Force of Decisions
  • 3. Solutions
  • 3.1. High Quality Legal Search in Case Law Databases
  • 3.2. Automatic Recognition of Similar Decisions
  • 3.3. Automatic Links between Decisions from the Same Case
  • 4. Conclusion

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