Accessing judicial decisions with electronic sources

Korhoň, Ondřej Accessing judicial decisions with electronic sources. Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology (ISSN 1802-5951), 2012, vol. 6, n. 2, pp. 267-282. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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This paper is based on research conducted for a diploma thesis focusing on the accessibility of electronic sources of judicature in the Czech Republic. The paper deals with publicly as well as commercially accessible sources. Publicly accessible sources include NALUS administered by the Constitutional Court, the retrieval system of the Supreme Court and the retrieval system of the Supreme Administrative Court. Commercially accessible sources include Beck online, ASPI, and CODEXIS. All of these sources were evaluated on the basis of content range and search engine and user interface quality. This paper argues that the quality of public sources is generally comparable to commercial ones, in some cases even exceeding their quality (e. g. the NALUS system). The narrower specialization of the public sources makes them more user-friendly in terms of accessing judicature. On the other hand, judicature only constitutes one part of the services provided by the commercial systems: their search engines are shared by other services, which makes them more difficult to navigate. However this also enables them to provide judicature in the context of other relevant information such as legislation or literature.

Item type:	Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords:	law, justice, judicial organization, legal information, legal information system, judicial decision, constitutional, court, NALUS, Beck online, ASPI, CODEXIS Academia
Subjects:	A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AC. Relationship of LIS with other fields . B. Information use and sociology of information > BI. User interfaces, usability. H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HP. e-resources. I. Information treatment for information services > IB. Content analysis (A and I, class.) L. Information technology and library technology > LS. Search engines.
Depositing user:	Mgr. Ondrej Korhon
Date deposited:	19 Feb 2013 09:40
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:25
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/18607

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