An integrated methodology for collecting, classifying, and analyzing Canadian construction court cases

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-188
Author(s):  
Amir Chehayeb ◽  
Mohamed Al-Hussein ◽  
Peter Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
Prediction Module ◽  
Construction Claims ◽  
Standard Construction ◽  
Construction Documents ◽  
Law Construction ◽  
Different Sources

Construction contracts are becoming more complicated, and the increase in complexity of construction processes, documents, and conditions of contracts has contributed to a higher possibility of disputes and conflicting interpretations. The judicial system has been the means for dispute resolution for claims that cannot be solved through other means such as negotiation and arbitration. Knowledge of previous outcomes of judicial processes will both inform participants in a dispute and increase the likelihood of a less-expensive out-of-court dispute-resolution process. This paper presents a methodology to classify, categorize, and analyze Canadian case-law construction claims. In total, 567 Canadian construction court cases have been collected from 10 different sources and are classified into 12 categories that follow the Canadian Construction Documents Committee (CCDC) standard construction contract document CCDC 2-1994. The proposed methodology is implemented in a computer-integrated system called the Canadian construction claim tracker (CCCT), which consists of one central database and three modules, namely a statistical module, a prediction module, and a classification module. The CCCT provides its users with easy and quick access to past case-law claim information.Key words: construction courts, claims, litigation, artificial neural networks, Canadian Construction Documents Committee.

scholarly journals Mediation and Court in Ukraine: Perspectives on Interaction and Mutual Understanding

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-190
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
European Court

In this note, the authors identify some problems concerning the introduction of mediation in Ukraine in terms of its use in the consideration and resolution of court cases. Despite the lack of clear legal regulation for mediation, courts in Ukraine still try to use this mechanism of pre-trial dispute resolution. Particular attention is paid to the law enforcement activities of courts in criminal and administrative cases, in which courts try to equate the conciliation procedure with the mediation procedure. These approaches clearly follow from the Resolutions and Recommendations of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe and the settled case-law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) since, back in 1975, the ECtHR in its decision Golder v. The United Kingdom ruled that it is unlikely that the rule of law can be imagined without access to justice. However, the presumption that the courts are the main institution for resolving disputes continues to be undermined by the proliferation of alternative forms of dispute resolution, both agreement-based and judicial.

scholarly journals Party Autonomy

1999 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 257
Author(s):  
Robin Cooke
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Alternative Dispute Resolution ◽  
Case Law ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Party Autonomy ◽  
National Bank ◽  
Formative Experiences

This is an augmented version of a paper delivered at the International Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution, New Delhi, in December 1998. Party autonomy describes the principle whereby the parties to a dispute have full autonomy when making their arbitration agreement. The author discusses the Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 of the Parliament of India, focusing on the principle of party autonomy. He describes his formative experiences to arbitration in cases like Wellington City v National Bank of New Zealand Properties Ltd, the Arbitration and Conciliation Act itself, Indian case law before the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, and a brief look at New Zealand's Arbitration Act 1996. 

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTASI KEBIJAKAN PERATURAN MAHKAMAH AGUNG NOMOR I TAHUN 2008 TENTANG PROSEDUR MEDIASI DI PENGADILAN AGAMA BANDUNG KELAS I.A

1970 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Kun Budianto
Keyword(s):  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Regulatory Policy ◽  
Mediation Process ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
Policy Rules ◽  
Litigation Process ◽  
Settlement Of Disputes ◽  
Sense Of Justice ◽  
Religious Courts

This article discussed regulatory policy on mediation in religious courts way dispute resolution through mediation according to Islamic law and implementation of mediation in settlement court cases in Religious Courts Bandung Class I A. This research base on the policy rules by mediation in the  Religious Courts;  (a)  the  benefits to  be  gained if mediation used as a means in the  settlement  of  disputes,  namely  the  mediation process  could overcome  the  problem  of  accumulation of  matter,  the  mediation process is viewed as a means of dispute resolution that is faster and cheaper than the litigation process, enforcement of mediation can expand access for all parties to gain a sense  of  justice,  (b)  provision their peace  efforts in legislation.  (c) Indonesian society is a society that likes peace. The Implementation of the mediation process done with two ways, namely mediation initial litigation, and over litigation.

Measuring the Antitrust Revolution

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-514
Author(s):  
D. Daniel Sokol ◽  
Sara Bensley ◽  
Maia Crook
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
Multiple Goals ◽  
Historical Trends ◽  
Access Project ◽  
Visualization Techniques ◽  
The Impact

Although antitrust always evolved with the economics of its time, economic analysis was not central to the antitrust enterprise until Continental T.V. Inc. v. GTE Sylvania. In doing so, the Court abandoned the multiple goals of the prior era to embrace a singular economic goal. With a singular goal, antitrust had become revolutionary. How to measure the antitrust revolution has been difficult. In this article, we focus on published case law, which provides a broad set of observations that includes government enforcement actions and private antitrust suits. We use the Caselaw Access Project database and its associated “Historical Trends” tool to track the usage of certain words and phrases in judicial opinions. This article is the first to measure antitrust terms in court cases that combine big data with data visualization techniques to better understand, based on the usage of common antitrust terms, the impact economics has had on decided cases.

scholarly journals Spory wśród mieszkańców Krakowa o służebności gruntowe miejskie (mur środkowy i prawo widoku). W świetle orzecznictwa sądów cywilnych Wolnego Miasta Krakowa (1815–1846

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 11-65
Author(s):  
Mateusz Mataniak
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
Property Relations ◽  
National Archives ◽  
University Archives ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Civil Courts ◽  
Court Of Appeal

W artykule przedstawiono rozstrzyganie – na drodze sądowej – sporów pomiędzy mieszkańcami Krakowa, w okresie Rzeczypospolitej Krakowskiej (1815–1846), które dotyczyły służebności gruntowych miejskich (mur środkowy, prawo widoku). We wprowadzeniu wskazano na rzymski rodowód służebności, ich najważniejsze podziały (służebności naturalne, ustawowe, umowne) oraz główne sposoby korzystania z nich. W dalszej części artykułu analizie poddano 14 spraw sądowych, toczących się przed sądami Wolnego Miasta Krakowa. Podstawę źródłową stanowiły wyroki Trybunału I Instancji, Sądu Apelacyjnego i Sądu III Instancji, przechowywane w Archiwum Narodowym w Krakowie (zespół Archiwum Wolnego Miasta Krakowa), a także akta z Archiwum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego poświęcone działalności orzeczniczej Wydziału Prawa UJ w latach 1817–1833. W pracy znalazły się liczne dane w przedmiocie stosunków własnościowych w Krakowie. Artykuł stanowi przyczynek do dziejów stosowania prawa francuskiego (Kodeks Napoleona, Kodeks Procedury Cywilnej) na ziemiach polskich w pierwszej połowie XIX w. Disputes among residents of Krakow regarding easements of municipal property (central wall and right to a view). In light of the case law of the civil courts in the Free City of Krakow (1815–1846) The article presents the settlement – in court – of disputes among the residents of Krakow, during the period of the Republic of Krakow (1815–1846), which concerned the easements of municipal property (central wall, right to a view). The introduction shows easements based on Roman rules, their most important divisions (natural, legal and contractual) as well as the ways of using them. Later in the article, there is an analysis of 14 court cases from the Free City of Krakow. The basis for this are the verdicts of the Tribunal of First Instance, the Court of Appeal and the Court of Third Instance, stored in the National Archives in Krakow (Archive of the Free City of Krakow), as well as records from the Jagiellonian University Archives, dedicated to the judicial activities of the Faculty of Law of Jagiellonian University, during the years 1817–1833. The work contains a great deal of information concerning property relations in Krakow. The article represents a contribution to the usage of French law (Napoleonic Code, Code of Civil Procedure ) in Polish land during the first half of the 19th century.

scholarly journals ODREĐIVANJE VISINE NAKNADE ŠTETE U MEĐUNARODNOJ INVESTICIJSKOJ ARBITRAŽI S OBZIROM NA UTVRĐENU POVREDU I METODU IZRAČUNA

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-136
Author(s):  
Jadranka Osrečak
Keyword(s):  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Alternative Dispute Resolution ◽  
Case Law ◽  
International Investment ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Investment Arbitration ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
Arbitration Proceeding ◽  
Dispute Resolution Mechanism

International investment arbitration as an alternative dispute resolution mechanism for resolving disputes between foreign investors and host states is also a favourite dispute resolution for investors. It consist of three parts, all of which can be resolved separately. These are jurisdiction, merits and damages. Consequently, it is possible for a tribunal to render one, two or even three arbitral awards, depending on the tribunal decision to bifurcate/trifurcate the proceedings or not. This shows the complexity of each of the stages of the arbitration proceeding. The paper deals with the issue of reparation, specifically compensation for damage caused as the main form of reparation for damage. It gives an overview of the legal issues affecting the amount of awarded damages, the main methods for calculating damages, as well as the applicable case-law and statistics in relation to the legal issues and calculating methods. The paper argues that only a proactive and inclusive approach in respect to determining damages including a detailed fact analysis for legal qualification of the dispute and determination of the best damages assessment methods, can give satisfactory results.

Law and Intergenerational Relationships

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Israel Doron ◽  
Ariela Lowenstein ◽  
Simon Biggs
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Comparison ◽  
Labor Unions ◽  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
Aging Society ◽  
Active Labor ◽  
Legal Outcomes

Background: In any aging society, the sociolegal construction of intergenerational relationships is of great importance. This study conducts an international comparison of a specific judicial issue: whether active labor unions have the legal right to strike for the purpose of improving the benefits given to nonactive workers (specifically, pensioners). Method: A comparative case law methodology was used. The texts of three different Supreme Court cases—in the United States, Canada, and Israel—were analyzed and compared. Findings: Despite the different legal outcomes, all three court rulings reflect a disregard of known and relevant social gerontology theories of intergenerational relationships. Conclusion: Social gerontological theories can play an important role in both understanding and shaping judicial policies and assisting the courts in choosing their sociojudicial narratives.

Traditional Justice System as Alternative Dispute Resolution Under Article 159(2)(C) of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-40
Author(s):  
Emily Kinama
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Alternative Dispute Resolution ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Justice Systems ◽  
Civil Cases ◽  
The Right

There are various forms of justice. It cannot be limited to legal justice. This paper explores the potential of traditional justice systems under the Constitution. It illustrates the need for a multidisciplinary approach in order to fully realise the right to access justice. Through a comparative analysis as well as case law, the paper demonstrates how alternative dispute resolution is not limited to civil cases, but can be applied to criminal proceedings. Challenges are pointed out and recommendations made on how to improve and effectively manage traditional justice system

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