RE: [activities] Re: activities Digest, Vol 60, Issue 2

Hi Patrick,

>What sort of data sets are you considering using?

The data that is available is via Austlii in RTF format. This needs to be converted to TXT then data to be extracted to whatever format suits.

We can only use the cases that are published at the moment but if this project takes off it has a potential to push the government to bring further transparency to they system by releasing all the data.

Between 2007 - 2008   77 169	cases went through the Federal Magistrates court alone. Ref http://www.fmc.gov.au/pubs/docs/0708pt3.pdf

The current process that I gathering raw data.
http://www.complife.com.au/courtstats/index.php?title=Getting_Raw_FMC_Data

The goals of the project to to see what interesting trends can be discovered to help improve the Family Court System.

Not all judgments are made public but the cases that are published to the public influence future decisions.

The sky is the limit as to what trends the public want to find out.

I'm only starting small as I have limited resources but if I can get public interest then maybe we can improve the Family court system in Australia with interesting data trends.

What I hope to achieve out of this project is to see transparency in the family court system for the public.

Ive seen families go through the family court system and it has destroyed their lives or build resentment between parents which can't be good for the children. 

If parties knew the likely results before they even started litigation then maybe the public will think about their children more before litigating.

If you knew that self representation only has a 2% success rate would you self represent?

If you knew that most cases cost $30,000 would you start litigation?

If transparency is brought to the system, people can make informed decisions as to what is in the best for their children.

I hope this helps.

The aim of this project is to be community driven so once I get expressed interest then the community can choose what they think is important to them as to what data gets analysed. 

Gareth

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Sent: Mon 1/10/2011 11:39 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [activities] Re: activities Digest, Vol 60, Issue 2
 
Hi Gareth,

What sort of data sets are you considering using?

I'm curious as to what sort of patterns you think may become evident.

One that would be really interesting is self-representation by gender,
length and outcome (this would likely include such things as
care/residency of children, property, assets etc).

>From memory the previous Chief Justice of the Supreme Court once
commented that self-represented parties had the poorest outcome even
given similar circumstances. He was arguing for greater federal
funding of legal services.

Anyhoo, just curious as to what you're aiming to achieve or are interested in :)

Regards,

Patrick


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> Hi guys,
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> RE: COURT STATS PROJECT 2011
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> I'm interested in providing a talk on a project that I'm starting for 2011.
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> I'm still doing the ground work on getting this project started but I've had a large amount of interest in this project so far as the family court system impacts most families in Australia.
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> The project is going to be a full disclosure project to give transparency to the Australian public on how the statistics are going to be gathered.
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> This project is a project to gather Family Court statistics from the Australian court system and bring transparency to the Australian public.
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> I am using all open source software and will be releasing all my script on how the data is manipulated.
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> This is a project I'm running in my spare time outside of my full-time job in IT.
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> I'm looking for expressions of interest from the IT community to provide some technical skills to assist this project move forward.
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> http://www.complife.com.au/courtstats/
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> Please let me know what you think,
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> Gareth Hilton-Smith
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