One lesson of the terrible Black Saturday fires in Victoria was that lines of communication can break down, with tragic consequences. Information which may have been available to some did not reach and so could not inform the decisions of those who had to act. The recently-released interim report of the Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission [...]
Archive for the ‘Legal Argumentation’ Category
The Bushfire Royal Commission should explain its reasoning better
Posted in Argument, Communication, Legal Argumentation, Reasoning on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Why are legal arguments so hard to follow?
Posted in Argument, Argument Mapping, Language, Legal Argumentation, Rationale, Reasoning on August 13, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Judges use written judgements to convey the complex set of arguments supporting their decision. However it is difficult to extract the arguments from those written judgements, at the level of clarity and rigour demanded by good-quality argument mapping. This difficulty is due in large part to various aspects of traditional legal prose.
The War was Illegal
Posted in Argument Mapping, Deliberation, Legal Argumentation on March 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Following on from the previous post, here is the argument map of the “Gang of 43″ case that the Coalition of the Willing’s war on Iraq would be illegal: Viewing options: Click on the image above to view a full-size version; or (better) view a PDF version; or (best) download the original bCisive file, allowing [...]
Yes, the war was legal – argument map
Posted in Argument, Argument Mapping, Critical Thinking, Legal Argumentation, Teaching on March 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Greg Hunt’s brave case that the Iraq war was in fact legal presented in an argument map.
Mega-Litigation
Posted in Argument, Argument Mapping, Legal Argumentation, Reasoning on August 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Maybe this post should’ve been called “Why judges should be paid more.” Simon Lewis alerted me to the written judgment of Justice Ronald Sackville in the case Seven Network Limited v News Limited, otherwise known as the C7 case, or “Kerry Stokes against the world.” This is a monster (1200 pages, 76mb in rtf format) [...]
Pre-structured maps of legal arguments
Posted in Argument Mapping, Critical Thinking, Legal Argumentation on August 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Peter Tillers discusses why DNA can never be regarded, on its own, as conclusive evidence of guilt or innocence. This post makes me wonder about the possibility of a kind of schematic argument map showing how the argument from say a DNA match to guilt would have to go in some more-or-less general version. This [...]
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