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Open Legal Data: Court Decisions Germany

This dataset is a preprocessed version of an Open Legal Data data dump, spefically it contains German court decisions. The dataset was automatically generated and uploaded to the HF hub using oldp-toolkit.

Data format

Each dataset sample has the following format:

{
    "id": 325566,
    "slug": "lg-koln-2029-11-13-84-o-24918",
    "court": {
        "city": 446,
        "id": 812,
        "jurisdiction": "Ordentliche Gerichtsbarkeit",
        "level_of_appeal": "Landgericht",
        "name": "Landgericht K\u00f6ln",
        "slug": "lg-koln",
        "state": 12
    },
    "file_number": "84 O 249\/18",
    "date": "2029-11-13",
    "created_date": "2020-02-06T11:01:05Z",
    "updated_date": "2020-12-10T13:50:38Z",
    "type": "Urteil",
    "ecli": "ECLI:DE:LGK:2029:1113.84O249.18.00",
    "content": "<h2>Tenor<\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"ol\"><li><p>I. Die Beklagte wird verurteilt, der Kl\u00e4gerin ...",
    "markdown_content": "## Tenor\n\n- I. Die Beklagte wird verurteilt, der Kl\u00e4gerin ..."
}

The content fields holds the original HTML content of the court decision. The markdown_content is the HTML content converted to the Markdown format.

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Citation

If you use this data, please cite our research paper:

@inproceedings{10.1145/3383583.3398616,
author = {Ostendorff, Malte and Blume, Till and Ostendorff, Saskia},
title = {Towards an Open Platform for Legal Information},
year = {2020},
isbn = {9781450375856},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3383583.3398616},
doi = {10.1145/3383583.3398616},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2020},
pages = {385–388},
numpages = {4},
keywords = {open data, open source, legal information system, legal data},
location = {Virtual Event, China},
series = {JCDL '20}
}

License

In Germany, acts, statutory instruments, official decrees and official notices, as well as decisions (including court decisions) and official head notes of decisions do not enjoy copyright protection (UrhG § 5).

The collection and metadata has the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0.

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