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Record W322187415

The Oral Judgment Practice in the Canadian Appellate Courts

2003· article· en· W322187415 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
J. E. Côté

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Journal of Appellate Practice and Process · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLegal Systems and Judicial Processes
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAppealSupreme courtLawArgument (complex analysis)Common lawPsychologyPolitical scienceMedicine
DOInot available

Abstract

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It is traditional that British and Canadian appeal courts render many judgments orally, in open court.Although this format may seem foreign to American judges and jurists, it is a practical and efficient tool for rendering decisions and disposing of cases.The American legal system would fare well to consider the advantages of oral judgments. II. HISTORYOral judgments are not foreign to the American legal system.They are the traditional common-law way to render judgment.Virtually all of the English court decisions commonly referred to in law school are reports of oral judgments.'Many are not even verbatim reports. 2 Until recent years, most English reasons for judgment, even long important ones, were delivered orally in court.'Although some were drafted in writing first, 4 many were ex tempore.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.013
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.117
Threshold uncertainty score0.852

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.013
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.005
Science and technology studies0.0230.011
Scholarly communication0.0100.001
Open science0.0030.003
Research integrity0.0030.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.342
Teacher spread0.322 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2003
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