[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [List Home]
Subject: Tradeoff Preferences Module
It's good to see tradeoffs -- "userâs preferences or requirements
related to cost, speed (timing/ urgency/ deadline), convenience
(location/ jurisdiction issues) and due process (exercising their
legal rights)" -- explicitly covered in the draft Litigant Portal
Exchange 1.0 (LPX 1.0) standard.
Helping litigants make informed choices is one of the highest
services of a portal. The message specifications and data models
in section 3.12 (Tradeoff Preferences) are a welcome stab at
articulating some of the underlying structures and relationships.Â
Tradeoffs of course can't be "calculated," since they inescapably
involve human values and their interplay. A portal can acquaint a
litigant with common considerations they may want to take into
account in choosing among options for dealing with a legal issue.
How those options "score" relative to each other on a given
consideration, and how the litigant assesses the importance
(weight) of considerations relative to each other, are essential
to any meaningful all-things-considered conclusion, yet they can
require extensive knowledge and deliberation.
The conceptual framework outlined in the middle of this
piece might be worth exploring in the next iteration of this
section.Â
[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [List Home]