[WikiEN-l] WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 153

Tue Dec 19 08:00:09 UTC 2006

On 19/12/06, Sarah <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/18/06, zero 0000 <nought_0000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> > Perhaps there is another useful way to look at it: consider
> > the legal database to be "the" source, rather than a
> > collection of sources.  Can I say something like "Legal
> > opinions found in the LawIsUs database uniformly favor Y"?
> > (The wording may need tweaking.)

> The problem is that material we use as sources must be available to
> the general public, and it's not clear that we can expect the public
> to have access to a legal database.

Er, what on earth? No, rubbish. It's the source, it's checkable.

> Also, we have to depend on you
> having conducted the search correctly, which you may not have done if
> you have no legal education; and we have to depend on you correctly
> describing the opinion that you say is uniformly favored, which you
> may also not have done.

That's a separate issue.

- d.