A dataset for predicting Supreme Court judgments in Nigeria.

ABSTRACT: It has been widely argued among researchers that the application of big data analytics promises to reduce human bias and provide a scientific and evidence-based approach to the judicial process. In this dataset, historical data consisting of appeal cases presented at the Supreme Court of Nigeria (SCN) were collected from an online repository (Primsol Law Pavillion). A total of 5585 appeal cases brought before the SCN were collected from the archive. The dataset consisted of both criminal and civil appeal cases brought before the SCN. Variables that are related to court case proceedings were identified from related literature, verified by legal experts and used as a basis for generating an electronic structured version of the dataset stored as a spreadsheet file from the unstructured data.

SUBMITTER: Ngige OC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10425661 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature