Data Model Documentation

 

judge

The judge name element, containing the name of a judge hearing a case.

Description

OxLawRepML only.

The appropriate two-character ISO 3166 country code should be captured as the value of the nationality attribute where applicable.

The role attribute is used only where a judge's name is provided along with information about his or her role in the case, such as President A. Barak, or Justice D. Appleby (dissenting). In such cases the extra descriptive information is captured in the role attribute.

Note that the role attribute used to capture descriptive information that is relative to the court proceedings, i.e. the judge's role in that particular case (e.g. Presiding), while the foreTitle attribute on the nameGrp child element is used to capture an official title that the judge has been permanently granted, e.g. Justice.

DTD declaration

<!ELEMENT judge (#PCDATA | nameGrp)*>

Children

Attributes

Name

Type

Value

id

ID

#IMPLIED

nationality

CDATA

#IMPLIED

opinion

CDATA

#IMPLIED

role

CDATA

#IMPLIED

Parents

Special features

  • Mixed content element