EXPERT LEGAL SYSTEMS-eGANGES

This is a comment about the eGanges. It’s nature was already discussed in the Wiki, so in addition to that I voice my opinion regarding it.

eGanges system is, at present, a shell system which allows input of rules and noting their interoperation. As of itself, eGanges cannot provide legal support, and can only work as an assistance tool to legal professionals, and possibly to their clients. In such a form, a legal support system based on eGanges can only be as good as the very person inputting the rules and their interoperation in the system. Whereas eGanges is able to link several areas of law into one flowchart-like system, the initial user would have to have a knowledge of all the legal interoperations in the first place. This results in a circular argument that a legal practitioner who does not have a deep knowledge of particular areas of law is creating an eGanges based system will not be able to create a system which can be relied on fully. On the other hand, a person who is a specialist in a particular area of law, such as a barrister, will not need such a system simply because they already know all the intricacies of the interoperation of legal rules.

The only way in which such a system may present itself as a viable commercial alternative its shell was filled out with rules by a large legal research company, such as LexisNexisAU. A product based on eGanges and developed in such a way would collect sufficient amount of congregate knowledge which would enable assistance to persons of legal and non-legal background. However, such a system could get too complicated for many users as the amount of relations between different legal areas is enormous, and if a matter is of such complexity that it requires eGanges based system, it is probably just easier to refer it to a specialist.

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