On the Introduction of ECLI Standard in the Italian Judicial

On the Introduction of ECLI Standard in
the Italian Judicial Documentary System
T. Agnoloni, L. Bacci, E. Francesconi
ITTIG-CNR – Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques
Italian National Research Council
Rome, 13-14 October 2014
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Overview
Identification and role of the Italian national ECLI coordinator
Specifications of the ECLI components under national
responsibility
Metadata mapping towards ECLI Dublin Core specifications
Tools for ECLI implementation (case law reference parsing)
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ECLI main pillar of the European e-Justice Portal
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ECLI - The national level
European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) is a metadata convention and
structure for identifying case-law
Member States are encouraged to introduce ECLI for case-law
identification
Each Member State must appoint a governmental or judicial
organization as the national ECLI-coordinator. It is responsible for:
(a) the list of courts and tribunals that can have a code;
(b) the scheme on the types of documents;
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Italian National ECLI Coordinator
The Ministry of Justice - DGSIA is acting as Italian National ECLI
Coordinator
ITTIG-CNR acts as technical support providing:
National ECLI specifications
Tools to facilitate the implementation of ECLI - Italian version
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ECLI components under national responsibility
ECLI : [CountryCode] : [CourtCode] : [Year] : [OrdinalNumber]
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ECLI components under national responsibility
ECLI : [CountryCode] : [CourtCode] : [Year] : [OrdinalNumber]
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[CourtCode] (max 7 characters)
1
Code of courts with national jurisdiction competence
CASS
COST
CSM
...
2
Corte Suprema di Cassazione (Supreme Court)
Corte Costituzionale (Constitutional Court)
Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura (High Council of the Judiciary)
Code of courts with local jurisdiction competence
court name (3 chars) + geographical code (provincial or
cadastral (municipal) code) (max 4 chars)
TRB
TRD
CPP
...
Ordinary tribunal
Ordinary tribunal – Separate section
Court of Appeal
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[CourtCode] (max 7 characters)
1
Code of courts with national jurisdiction competence
CASS
COST
CSM
...
2
Corte Suprema di Cassazione (Supreme Court)
Corte Costituzionale (Constitutional Court)
Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura (High Council of the Judiciary)
Code of courts with local jurisdiction competence
court name (3 chars) + geographical code (provincial or
cadastral (municipal) code) (max 4 chars)
TRB
TRD
CPP
...
Ordinary tribunal
Ordinary tribunal – Separate section
Court of Appeal
Examples:
Tribunal of Milan
Trib. of Milan, Separate Sect. of Rho
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TRBMI
TRDH264
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[OrdinalNumber] (max 25 characters)
<OrdinalNumber> = <measure><details> [<disambiguation-code>]
<measure>: judgements (S), ordinances (O), interlocutory
ordinances (I), decrees (D)
<details>: measure or proceeding number and possibly the matter
(called “Ruolo di Cancelleria”)
<disambiguation-code>: code for disambiguation within a dossier
(DDMM)
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ECLI examples for Italian case law
Judgement n. 12/2008 of the Court of Milan on Labour Law
ECLI:IT:TRBMI:2008:S12LA
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ECLI examples for Italian case law
Judgement n. 12/2008 of the Court of Milan on Labour Law
ECLI:IT:TRBMI:2008:S12LA
Judgement n. 1569/2008 of the Court of Cassation, Civil Law
Section I
ECLI:IT:CASS:2008:S1569AC
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ECLI examples for Italian case law
Judgement n. 12/2008 of the Court of Milan on Labour Law
ECLI:IT:TRBMI:2008:S12LA
Judgement n. 1569/2008 of the Court of Cassation, Civil Law
Section I
ECLI:IT:CASS:2008:S1569AC
Ordinance of the Court of Milan, 25 January 2013, R.G.A.C.
(civil litigation) n. 123 of 2009 (year of creation of the dossier)
ECLI:IT:TRBMI:2013:O123.2009AC
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Metadata for Case Law within the ECLI initiative
ECLI Metatata - based on the Dublin Core metadata standard - to
promote understandability and findability of case law
each court exposes a minimal set of mandatory DC metadata
ECLI search interface (multilingual, multi-jurisdiction)
optional metadata: additional information on subject, content and related
documents for each decision
Italian prototype implementation: mapping and publication of metadata
of the Corte Suprema di Cassazione criminal and civil case law
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Metadata for Case Law within the ECLI initiative
ECLI Metatata - based on the Dublin Core metadata standard - to
promote understandability and findability of case law
< e c l i : document>
< e c l i : metadata>
< e c l i : i d e n t i f i e r l a n g =" i t " f o r m a t =" t e x t / h t m l " t y p e ="s u m m a r i s e d">
http : / / . . .
</ e c l i : i d e n t i f i e r >
< e c l i : i s V e r s i o n O f v a l u e ="ECLI : IT : XX : 2 0 1 2 : XXXX">
< e c l i : c o u n t r y >IT </ e c l i : c o u n t r y >
< e c l i : c o u r t >XX</ e c l i : c o u r t >
</ e c l i : i s V e r s i o n O f >
< e c l i : c r e a t o r l a n g =" i t "> O r g a n i s a t i o n Y</ e c l i : c r e a t o r >
...
</ e c l i : m e t a d a t a >
< e c l i : document>
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ECLI for automatic and stable hyperlinks
Potential loss of validity of document hyperlinks
Intensive maintenance activity
Stable hyperlinks can be obtained by adopting a document
naming convention like ECLI
Automatic text parsing able to detect references and
implement the ECLI naming convention
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Variability in Legal Citations: Judicial citations
The automatic detection of case law reference is a challenging task
lack of consolidated best practices for judicial citations
authorities, numerical references and dates are expressed in
many different ways
citation components can be implicit or missing.
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Variability in Legal Citations: Judicial citations
The automatic detection of case law reference is a challenging task
lack of consolidated best practices for judicial citations
authorities, numerical references and dates are expressed in
many different ways
citation components can be implicit or missing.
Examples of different ways to address Italian Court of Cassation (High Court) decisions
Cass.
Cass.
Cass.
Cass.
n. 2597 del 7/2/2006
1197 del 20/1/2006
SU 4.11.2004 n 21095
21.12.2002 n. 18223, 3.9.96 n. 8053.
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Cass. n. 13085 del 2008
Cass. 19/10/2007, n. 2200
Cass. 15712/02, 2059/00.
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Parsing approach
A Judicial Reference Parser has been developed by ITTIG-CNR
It is conceived on a parsing strategy based on:
triggering words
rules
start conditions
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Parsing approach
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Parsing approach
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Italian ECLI implementation pilot cases
Supreme Court of Cassation
Tribunal of Milan
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Thanks!
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