Deconfounding Legal Judgment Prediction for European Court of Human Rights Cases Towards Better Alignment with Experts
Paper • 2210.13836 • Published
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001-4553 | The applicant is a British citizen born in 1961 and currently detained in HM Prison Old Elvet, Durham. Before the Court, he is represented by Mr. B.T. Row, a solicitor practising in Newcastle. The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follows.
On 17 June 1993 the applicant was arrested an... | [2, 4, 5, 6, 7] |
001-57904 | 7. The first applicant, Catharina Kroon, is a Netherlands national born in 1954. The second applicant, Ali Zerrouk, born in 1961, was a Moroccan national at the time of the events complained of; he subsequently obtained Netherlands nationality. Although they were not living together at the time, they had a stable relat... | [0, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 17, 18, 39, 40, 41, 49] |
001-58115 | 9. Mr Mehdi Zana, a Turkish citizen born in 1940, is a former mayor of Diyarbakır, where he currently lives.
10. Since approximately 1985, serious disturbances have raged in the south-east of Turkey between the security forces and the members of the PKK (Workers’ Party of Kurdistan). This confrontation has so far, acco... | [1, 2, 4, 7, 10, 11, 13, 15, 18, 21, 27, 28, 30, 31] |
001-58227 | 6. In 1929 K.N. inherited three-quarters of a tract of land known as the “Karras estate” from his adoptive father. In 1938 K.N.’s adoptive mother sold him the remaining quarter of the “Karras estate”, which she had inherited from her husband. The contract of sale gave the surface area of the “Karras estate” as 12,000,0... | [2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 28, 31, 38, 39, 41, 45, 48, 50, 51, 52, 55, 56, 57] |
001-61317 | 9. The applicant was born in 1966 and lives in the Paris area.
10. The applicant has been physically disabled since the age of seven. He was adopted by Mr Bernard Poirrez, a French national, under the terms of a judgment of 28 July 1987 of the Bouaké Court of First Instance. On 11 December 1987 the Bobigny tribunal de ... | [3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28, 55, 57] |
001-67816 | 15. The applicants, Mr Cumpănă and Mr Mazăre, were born in 1951 and 1968 respectively and live in Constanţa.
16. In decision no. 33 of 30 June 1992, Constanţa City Council, implementing government decision no. 147 of 26 March 1992, introduced a fine for drivers of illegally parked vehicles and entrusted the task of rem... | [4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32, 36, 37, 38, 48, 49, 51, 53, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 64, 65, 67, 69, 79, 83, 84, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109] |
001-69131 | 8. The applicants, Mr J.S. and Ms A.S. are a married couple residing in Stegna.
9. By way of an administrative decision of 29 October 1948 a property owned by the second applicant’s father W.U. and located in Czarzaste-Chodubki was expropriated pursuant to provisions of the 1944 Decree on Agrarian Reform. It was stated... | [4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 25, 26, 29] |
001-73291 | 9. In 1990 the applicant founded and became the chairman of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Youth Party („Българска революционна младежка партия“). He ran for parliament in 1990 and in several later elections, unsuccessfully. Apparently he was also a presidential candidate in later elections on that party’s ballot.
10. At ... | [1, 7, 8, 12, 17, 18, 21, 30, 35, 36, 38, 40, 44] |
001-76677 | 6. The applicant was born in 1944 and currently lives in Peru.
7. On 3 July 2003 the applicant, a suspected member of the Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) organisation, a terrorist group founded in 1970 whose aim is to transform Peru’s political system by armed force into a communist proletarian regime, was arrested in ... | [1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 25, 30] |
001-77181 | The applicant, Ms Olga Ivanovna Sherstyuk, is a Ukrainian national who was born in 1965 and lives in the town of Popasnaya of the Lugansk region. The Ukrainian Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mr Y. Zaytsev, of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.
The facts of the case, as submitted by the ... | [2, 3, 4, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16] |
001-80083 | 5. The applicant was born in 1971 and lived in Przemyśl, Poland.
6. On 14 August 1997 the applicant was arrested by the police. On 15 August 1997 the Przemyśl District Court (Sąd Rejonowy) decided to detain the applicant on remand in view of the reasonable suspicion that he had committed a homicide.
7. Subsequently, th... | [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28] |
001-83482 | 6. The applicant was born in 1922 and lives in Granemore, County Armagh.
7. At about 10.40 p.m., shortly after closing time, on 6 June 1976, a police officer in the Royal Ulster Constabulary (“RUC”) drove a car, stolen by RUC Reserve Constable Laurence McClure, up to the Rock Bar, a public house. The applicant was leav... | [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 18] |
001-90165 | 5. The applicant was born in 1948 and lived in Warsaw.
6. On 17 September 1997 the applicant was arrested by the police. On 18 September 1997 the Warsaw District Court (Sąd Rejonowy) decided to place the applicant in pre-trial detention in view of the reasonable suspicion that he had been involved in drug trafficking a... | [1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 39, 54, 55, 56, 57, 60, 61, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 81, 85, 93, 94, 96, 97, 101, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107] |
001-88523 | The applicant, Mr Clarence Hornby, is a British national who was born in 1945 and lives in Wigan. He was unrepresented before the Court. The United Kingdom Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mr C. Whomersley of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
The facts of the case, as submitted by the p... | [2, 3] |
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Dataset Summary
This work demonstrates that Legal Judgement Prediction systems without expert-informed adjustments can be vulnerable to shallow, distracting surface signals that arise from corpus construction, case distribution, and confounding factors. To mitigate this, we use domain expertise to strategically identify statistically predictive but legally irrelevant information. We adopt adversarial training to prevent the system from relying on it. We evaluate our deconfounded models by employing interpretability techniques and comparing to expert annotations. Quantitative experiments and qualitative analysis show that our deconfounded model consistently aligns better with expert rationales than baselines trained for prediction only. We further contribute a set of reference expert annotations to the validation and testing partitions of an existing benchmark dataset of European Court of Human Rights cases
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Citation Information
@article{santosh2022deconfounding,
title={Deconfounding Legal Judgment Prediction for European Court of Human Rights Cases Towards Better Alignment with Experts},
author={Santosh, TYS and Xu, Shanshan and Ichim, Oana and Grabmair, Matthias},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.13836},
year={2022}
}
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