RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] Charter: Mention Marked-Up Documents

[John Messing <jmessing@law-on-line.com>]

I think the needs of lawyers need to acknowledged. The filings for them
are ways to influence a judge's or jury's decision. If they feel put
into a strait-jacket for extraneous reasons, they may feel that
electronic filing is an obstacle, rebel and complain to the judges. A
way to prevent such an outcome, which I think would be disasterous for
electronic court filing, is to assure that free-form of argument is
available somewhere within a document. It may not even be persistent
data from the perspective of the court administration, but it is a
matter of record and will require preservation nontheless. It could be
stored as a single blob or as some kind of character data. But it will
need to be included, to avoid real trouble, IMHO.


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] Charter: Mention Marked-Up
> Documents
> From: "O'Brien, Robert" <Robert.OBrien@cas-satj.gc.ca>
> Date: Mon, January 08, 2007 7:09 pm
> To: <Roger.Winters@METROKC.GOV>,
> <legalxml-courtfiling@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Cc: <john@greacen.net>
> 
> As a fellow representative of the Court User domain, I wholeheartedly
> endorse Roger's sentiments. Many Court staff and managers don't even
> want to hear about e-filing unless it will save them work (e.g. the area
> of case management system data entry). 
> 
> We must try to leverage more from e-filing in this regard.
> 
> Robert O'B
> Courts Administration Service 
> Ottawa Canada
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger.Winters@METROKC.GOV [mailto:Roger.Winters@METROKC.GOV] 
> Sent: December 24, 2006 8:34 PM
> To: legalxml-courtfiling@lists.oasis-open.org
> Cc: john@greacen.net
> Subject: [legalxml-courtfiling] Charter: Mention Marked-Up Documents
> 
> Hello, John, and members of the List,
> 
> In perusing the draft revised Charter, I have realized we haven't
> stressed that it is a goal of the TC to develop XML documents that would
> be marked up in such a way as to automate data extraction and eliminate
> duplicative data entry for court filings. Accordingly, I propose that
> the draft Charter revision be amended to include language such as:
> 
> "the TC intends to develop techniques and principles for creating XML
> legal documents for the purpose of data capture and re-use without
> manual re-entry, across a broad spectrum of uses, including court
> filings."
> 
> I hope others will endorse this added purpose and, if anyone has better
> language, please offer it. 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Roger
> 
> Roger Winters
> King County