When contracting through software agents, disputes will inevitably arise. Thus there is an urgent need to find alternatives to litigation for resolving conflicts. Methods of Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) need to be considered to resolve such disputes. Having agents understanding what the...

Most legal decision support systems have generally operated in domains with well-understood norms. Hence reasoning has been represented by a combination of rule-based and case-based reasoning. However, we analyse legal domains in which decision makers are allowed a significant amount of...

There has been very little published research on building legal decision support systems to perform risk assessment. Yet one of the principal goals of the law is to reduce risk through the avoidance of litigation. This paper discusses ongoing research on how legal decision support systems can...

In this paper we discuss Split Up, a hybrid rule-based/neural network system which provides advice upon the distribution of property following divorce in Australia. The task of determining what property a Family Court judge may distribute was determined to be rule-based and implemented using...