Argumentation Quantity and Quality: A Litigation Success Function

Arguments are statements used to persuade someone or in support of a claim. However, these are not perfect and part are be exploited by the opponent to build its own argumentation. In this paper we present a litigation success function (LSF) that considers the quality of the plainti¤ and defendant arguments and preserves the flexibility and analytical characteristics of the "rent-seeking" contest success function. On the contrary to the existent literature, the proposed LSF can be applied to the English fee shifting system, and to model criminal and civil proceedings.