La-Mousse/CAPP-17-01-2025

language:

• —fr license: mit prettyname: French Court of Appeal Decisions (CAPP) sizecategories:
• —n>1M sourcedatasets: [] taskcategories:
• —text-classification
• —text-generation task_ids:
• —document-retrieval
• —document-question-answering tags:
• —legal
• —french-law
• —court-of-appeal
• —judicial-decisions dataset_info: features:
• —name: id dtype: string
• —name: ancien_id dtype: string
• —name: origine dtype: string
• —name: url dtype: string
• —name: nature dtype: string
• —name: titre dtype: string
• —name: date_decision dtype: string
• —name: juridiction dtype: string
• —name: numero dtype: string
• —name: solution dtype: string
• —name: numero_affaire dtype: string
• —name: formation dtype: string
• —name: siege_appel dtype: string
• —name: juridictionpremiereinstance dtype: string
• —name: lieupremiereinstance dtype: string
• —name: president dtype: string
• —name: avocat_general dtype: string
• —name: avocats dtype: string
• —name: rapporteur dtype: string
• —name: contenu dtype: string
• —name: sommaire dtype: string ---

French Court of Appeal Decisions Dataset (CAPP)

Dataset Description

The French Court of Appeal Decisions Dataset (CAPP) is a comprehensive collection of judicial decisions from French Courts of Appeal. This dataset contains appellate court decisions from various jurisdictions throughout France, providing a valuable resource for legal research, analysis, and machine learning applications in the French legal domain.

Source Data

The data is sourced from the official DILA (Direction de l'Information Légale et Administrative) platform through their open data initiative. The original data is available at: https://echanges.dila.gouv.fr/OPENDATA/CAPP/

Content Description

Each entry in the dataset represents a single judicial decision and includes the following information:

• —id: Unique identifier for the decision
• —ancien_id: Previous identifier (if applicable)
• —origine: Origin of the decision
• —url: URL to the source document
• —nature: Nature of the document
• —titre: Title of the decision
• —date_decision: Date when the decision was made
• —juridiction: Court that made the decision
• —numero: Case number
• —solution: Decision outcome
• —numero_affaire: Case reference number
• —formation: Court formation/chamber
• —siege_appel: Location of the Court of Appeal
• —juridiction_premiere_instance: First instance court
• —lieu_premiere_instance: Location of first instance court
• —president: Presiding judge
• —avocat_general: Attorney General
• —avocats: Lawyers involved
• —rapporteur: Reporting judge
• —contenu: Full text content of the decision
• —sommaire: Summary of the decision

Usage

This dataset can be loaded using the Hugging Face datasets library:

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("username/french-court-appeal-decisions")

Data Processing

The dataset was created by:

1. 1.Downloading compressed archives from DILA's open data platform
2. 2.Extracting and parsing XML files containing court decisions
3. 3.Cleaning and structuring the data into a consistent format
4. 4.Converting the data into JSONL format for efficient processing

Applications

This dataset is suitable for various applications, including:

• —Legal document retrieval systems
• —Case law analysis
• —Legal precedent research
• —Machine learning models for legal text classification
• —Legal question answering systems
• —Legal text summarization

Citation

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite:

@dataset{french_court_appeal_decisions,
  author = {DILA},
  title = {French Court of Appeal Decisions Dataset},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Direction de l'Information Légale et Administrative},
  url = {https://echanges.dila.gouv.fr/OPENDATA/CAPP/}
}

License

This dataset is released under the MIT License. Please refer to the license file for more details.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to DILA (Direction de l'Information Légale et Administrative) for making this data publicly available through their open data initiative.