id stringlengths 1 4 | type stringclasses 2
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values | input stringlengths 2.3k 391k | output stringlengths 440 34.9k |
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3188 | non-electoral | 2007 | THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
JUDGMENT
Reportable
Case no: 379/06
In the matter between:
ALTHEA LA DON DE GREE First Appellant
DJANGO ANTOINE DE GREE
Second Appellant
and
DAVID WILLIAM WEBB
First Respondent
CARO... | THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
MEDIA SUMMARY β JUDGMENT DELIVERED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL
From:
The Registrar, Supreme Court of Appeal
Date:
Friday 1 June 2007
Status:
Immediate
Please note that the media summary is intended for the benefit of
the media and does not form part of the ju... |
1768 | non-electoral | 2011 | THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL OF SOUTH AFRICA
JUDGMENT
Case No: 710/2008
In the matter between:
LOUIS JOHANNES JACOBUS GROBBELAAR First Appellant
DANIEL JOHANNES MONK HEYNS
Second Appellant
PETRUS CROUS WELGEMOED
Third Appellant
and
SHOPRITE CHECKERS LIMITED
Respondent
Neu... | THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
MEDIA SUMMARY β JUDGMENT DELIVERED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL
From:
The Registrar, Supreme Court of Appeal
Date:
11 March 2011
Status:
Immediate
Please note that the media summary is intended for the benefit of
the media and does not form part of the judgmen... |
2926 | non-electoral | 2015 | THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL OF SOUTH AFRICA
JUDGMENT
REPORTABLE
Case no: 916/2013
In the matter between:
PETROS DUMISANE JWARA
FIRST APPELLANT
VICTOR MPHO JWILI
SECOND APPELLANT
RATSHEKI LAMPROS MOKGOSANI
THIRD APPELLANT
and
THE STATE
RESPONDENT
Neutral citation: Jwara v S (916/13) [2015] ZASCA 33 (25 March 20... | THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL OF SOUTH AFRICA
MEDIA SUMMARY OF JUDGMENT DELIVERED IN THE
SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL
FROM
The Registrar, Supreme Court of Appeal
DATE
25 March 2015
STATUS
Immediate
Please note that the media summary is for the benefit of the media and
does not form part of the judgment.
JWARA v STATE... |
2629 | non-electoral | 2014 | "THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL OF SOUTH AFRICA\n\nJUDGMENT\n\nCase no: 20119/2014\nReportable\n\nIn th(...TRUNCATED) | "SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL OF SOUTH AFRICA\n\nMEDIA SUMMARY β JUDGMENT DELIVERED IN THE SUPREME COUR(...TRUNCATED) |
1254 | non-electoral | 2008 | "THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL\nREPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA\nJUDGMENT\nCASE NO: 207/07\nReportable\nIn th(...TRUNCATED) | "THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL\nREPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA\n\nMEDIA SUMMARY β JUDGMENT DELIVERED IN TH(...TRUNCATED) |
182 | non-electoral | 2017 | "THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL OF SOUTH AFRICA\nJUDGMENT\n\nReportable\nCase No: 926/2016\nIn the matt(...TRUNCATED) | "SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL OF SOUTH AFRICA\n\nMEDIA SUMMARY β JUDGMENT DELIVERED IN THE SUPREME\nCOU(...TRUNCATED) |
13 | non-electoral | 2017 | "THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL OF SOUTH AFRICA\nJUDGMENT\nReportable\nCase No: 200/2016\nIn the matter(...TRUNCATED) | "THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL OF SOUTH AFRICA\n\nMEDIA SUMMARY OF JUDGMENT DELIVERED IN THE SUPREME C(...TRUNCATED) |
2322 | non-electoral | 2009 | "THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL\nREPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA\nJUDGMENT\n\nCase No: 191/08\n\nIn the matte(...TRUNCATED) | "THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL\nREPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA\n\nMEDIA SUMMARY β JUDGMENT DELIVERED IN TH(...TRUNCATED) |
1219 | non-electoral | 2008 | "THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL\nREPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA\n\nJUDGMENT\n\nReportable\nCase no: 164/07\n(...TRUNCATED) | "THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL\nREPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA\n\nMEDIA SUMMARY β JUDGMENT DELIVERED IN TH(...TRUNCATED) |
3889 | non-electoral | 2022 | "THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL OF SOUTH AFRICA\nJUDGMENT\n\nReportable\nCase no: 828/2021\n\nIn the ma(...TRUNCATED) | "THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL\nREPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA\n\nMEDIA SUMMARY β JUDGMENT DELIVERED IN TH(...TRUNCATED) |
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ZASCA-Sum: South African Supreme Court of Appeal Summarization Dataset
ZASCA-Sum is a curated dataset comprising over 4,000 judgments from the South African Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA), each paired with corresponding media summaries. This dataset is designed to facilitate research in legal natural language processing (NLP), particularly in the areas of legal summarization, information retrieval, and the development of legal language models tailored to South African jurisprudence.
Dataset Overview
- Total Entries: 4,000+ judgment-summary pairs
- Languages: English (South African legal context)
- Structure:
judgment_text: Full text of the SCA judgmentmedia_summary: Corresponding media summary of the judgmentcase_id: Unique identifier for each casedate: Date of the judgmenturl: Link to the official judgment document
Usage
This dataset is intended for:
- Training and evaluating legal summarization models
- Developing legal information retrieval systems
- Conducting research in legal NLP and computational law
- Enhancing access to legal information and promoting transparency in the judicial system
Accessing the Dataset
The dataset is available on Hugging Face:
π https://huggingface.co/datasets/dsfsi/zasca-sum
To load the dataset using the Hugging Face datasets library:
from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("dsfsi/zasca-sum")
Citation
If you use ZASCA-Sum in your research, please cite the following publication:
@article{abdulmumin2025zasca,
title={ZASCA-Sum: A Dataset of the South Africa Supreme Courts of Appeal Judgments and Media Summaries},
author={Abdulmumin, Idris and Marivate, Vukosi},
journal={Data in Brief},
volume={47},
pages={111567},
year={2025},
publisher={Elsevier},
doi={10.1016/j.dib.2025.111567}
}
License
This dataset is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.
For more information, please refer to the associated publication.
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