3 research outputs found
A Legal Decision Support Guide for Owners Corporation Cases
The paper describes the development of a legal decision support guide to relevant case law decisions for owners corporation cases in the state of Victoria, Australia. The rate of growth of owners corporations (also known as body corporate or strata title properties) has increased significantly in the last two decades. Because of this growth, and the need to manage a rapidly expanding population, the governance and management of these entities has become an important concern for government. Conflict and its management within them is an essential element of this concern. The Victorian legislation outlines a three-tiered process for resolving disputes. Cases that can't be settled through negotiation are often referred to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT). Through our system we aim to provide legal decision support for relevant case law decisions determined by VCAT to help guide disputants through the grievance process
An OWL Ontology and Bayesian Network to Support Legal Reasoning in the Owners Corporation Domain
The paper describes the development of a legal decision support
guide for owners corporation cases in the state of Victoria, Australia that uses
an OWL ontology and Bayesian Network to perform legal reasoning. The rate
of growth of owners corporations (also known as body corporate or strata title
properties) has increased significantly in the last two decades. Because of this
growth, and the need to manage a rapidly expanding population, the governance
and management of these entities has become an important concern for
government. Conflict and its management within them is an essential element
of this concern. Cases that can’t be settled through negotiation are often referred
to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT). Using an OWL
ontology we have systematically modeled legal arguments and outcomes of past
cases heard by VCAT to facilitate both stand alone and Web based information
retrieval, extraction and case based reasoning. A Bayesian Belief network is
also used to deal with assumptions that tend to be prevalent in commonsense
reasoning. Through our system we aim to provide negotiation decision support
to help guide owners corporation disputants through the grievance process