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Find Case Law
The National Archives' service publishing court judgments as structured, citable documents, extending to the common law what legislation.gov.uk did for statute.
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Cited in the essay as the beginning of the answer to Bentham. His demand was knowability, and in 1811 the only technology that could deliver it was rewriting the law as a single text. Making every judgment addressable and every citation resolvable delivers the same knowability without abolishing the common law's capacity to grow.
The essay's formulation is that to digitise is to codify, and that the choice Bentham thought he faced between evolution and legibility was an artefact of paper.
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- For the Love of Law
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- The National Archives
Source: knowledge/projects/find-case-law.md
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