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Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess whether the implementation of the electronic Court Records Management System (CRMS) at the Gaborone Magisterial District, Botswana, brought improvements in the delivery of justice as expected in the management of case file records. Design/methodology/approach Principally, a quantitative approach utilizing a research survey design, supplemented by a qualitative approach was used in this study. Findings The CRMS implementation led to improvements in case file management at the Gaborone Magisterial District; case files were successfully captured into the system; retrieval of case files became easier; and incidents of lost and misplaced case files went down significantly. Challenges included shortcomings related to the security of digital case files, digital records preservation and disposition, records appraisal, training, inadequate bandwidth and shortage of computers, as well as inadequate archives and records management standards and guidelines. Research limitations/implications The findings of the study are limited to the case study and cannot be generalized to other organizations. Practical implications The findings should aid future implementation of court records management systems in the judiciary specifically and the public sector in general in Africa. Lessons learnt can enable the avoidance of pitfalls experienced in the implementation of CRMS by other courts. Originality/value This paper provides empirical evidence from an original study.

Objective: Efforts to determine crimes and culprits were carried out in the Ottoman Empire as in every society. Until the second half of the 19th century, when forensic medicine was institutionalized, the records belonging to these applications were held by the institution of “Qadi” in court registry books. In this study, based on these Shariah court records, we aimed to reveal Ottoman period forensic science procedures and urology’s place in them. Material and methods: Literature searches were made with certain keywords in Ottoman medical sources. Ottoman archive documents and relevant literature were examined in terms of forensic practices and urology, especially in Shariah court records belonging to several cities. Results: Signing Ottoman consent documents before medical interventions, the judgment of physicians due to fraud and mistakes, the consultation of physicians in injuries, infectious diseases, and on-site exploration of deaths were identified as the main forensic medicine applications. Extensive information about urologic diseases and forensic urology of the period in the consent documents was uncovered. Conclusion: Shariah court records provided information, through consent documents, about forensic medicine procedures, urogenital diseases, and urologic forensic cases of the period. Informed consent documents, which were introduced in Europe in the 19th century, were used in the Ottoman Empire since the 15th century, showing the Ottomans’ medical ethics in terms of physician and patient rights. Cite this article as: Güner E. Urology in forensic medicine registries in Ottoman court registry books. Turk J Urol 2020; 46(1): 80-6.

Mende is a diocese in south-central France where, in the 1260s, scribes of Bishop Odilon de Mercoeur created an extensive court book or register of litigated cases. Their intention was to develop an archive for the use of the chancery as well as to preserve thecausaeof the episcopal court. These records would later be used by Guillaume Durand the Younger to construct a version of the past which verified episcopal secular lordship and sovereignty in response to mounting intrusion by the king of France. For all of its importance to the history of religion in France, the court book of Mende has received little attention by historians and medieval scholars. In this study, Jan K. Bulman examines the interrelationships between the written records of the ecclesiastical court, the preservation of historical memory, and the defense of episcopal seigneurial rights. Bulman shows how the bishops of Mende followed a singular strategy to defend against loss of autonomy, one that was unique in its reliance on archival records, ancient charters, and narrative hagiography. Richly presented and comprehensively researched, this will be an indispensable work for scholars of religion and the history of medieval France.

Until the late 20th century, 'an archive' generally meant a repository for documents, as well as the generic name for the wide range of documents the repository might hold. An archive could be visited, and then also searched, to discover past actions or lives that had meaning for the present. While historians and historiograph

Governments and commercial firms create profit and social gain by exploiting large pools of data. One source of valuable data, however, lies in public hands yet remains largely untapped. While the deep reservoirs of data produced by Congress and federal agencies have long been available for public use, the data produced by the federal judiciary is only loosely regulated, imperfectly available to the public at large, and largely ignored by scholars. The ordinary process of litigation in federal courts generates an enormous volume of data. Especially after recent developments in large language models, this data holds immense potential. It can be used to predict case outcomes or clarify the law in ways that advance legality and judicial access. It can reveal shortfalls in judicial practice and enable the provision of cheaper, better access to justice. It can make legible many otherwise invisible social facts that, if brought to light, can improve public policy. Or the data can fuel private profits, its benefits accruing to a small coterie of data brokering firms capable of monopolizing its commercial use. This Article is the first to address the complex empirical, legal, and normative questions raised by the untapped public asset of judicial data. It develops a positive, descriptive account of how federal courts produce, dissipate, preserve, or disclose information. This account includes a map of the well-known sources of Article III data (for example, opinions, orders, and briefs), but also extends to a massive volume of \"dark data\" produced but either lost or buried by the courts. This positive analysis further uncovers a complex administrative framework that erects a plethora of walls and hurdles-some categorical, and some individuated-to slow down or stop public access. With this positive understanding in hand, we offer a careful analysis of the constitutional questions implicated in decisions to disclose-or to render opaque-judicial data. Drawing attention to the key question of who controls judicial data flows, we demonstrate the existence of sweeping congressional power to regulate judicial data outside of a small zone of inherent judicial authority and a handful of instances in which privacy or safety are implicated by disclosure. Congressional authority, therefore, is the rule and not the exception. Having established these empirical and legal predicates, the Article offers a normative vision of how Congress should regulate the production and dissemination of judicial data in light of the capabilities and incentives of relevant actors. The information produced by the federal courts should not exclusively be a source of private profit for a few data-centered firms. It is a public asset that should be elicited and disseminated in ways that advance the federal courts' mission of equal justice under law.

This is a calendar in English of the coroners' rolls for c. 1265-1317 and 1378-1380, held respectively in The National Archives and Gonville and Caius College Cambridge. The introduction explains coroners' duties (which could be varied) and court procedure before focusing on the work of the Bedfordshire coroners. Included are lists of the medieval coroners for Bedfordshire (1230-1478), Bedford (1240-1456), Dunstable (1228-1411) and the Bedfordshire liberties of the Abbot of St. Albans (1287-1326) and Eton College (1451). The rolls contain cases of murder, assaults and thefts and tragic accidents such as that of five-year-old Joan in 1274 who 'went through Riseley to beg for bread, came to a bridge called Fordebrugge and, as she tried to cross it, fell into the water and drowned.' Aside from crime, the rolls reveal the conditions of daily life at the poorer level of society, agriculture and the countryside.

We analyzed Wisconsin court records from the period 2001-18 to document trends in hospital lawsuits to recover patients' unpaid medical bills. These lawsuits increased 37 percent during this period, from 1.12 per 1,000 residents in 2001 to 1.53 per 1,000 residents in 2018, with lawsuits being disproportionately directed at Black patients and patients living in poorer and less densely populated counties.Hospitals' practice of suing patients over unpaid medical bills has received increasing attention, with journalists shining light on aggressive hospital behavior.1,2 A recent study examined crosssectional patterns in hospital litigation in Virginia in 2017.3 Several non-peer-reviewed reports examined hospital lawsuits in Connecticut, Maryland, and selected counties in New York and Texas.4-7 No study has examined long-term trends in hospital lawsuits, and there is limited understanding of how the incidence of lawsuits varies across patients, regions, and hospitals. In this study we constructed a new data set of hospital lawsuits from the period 2001-18 for the state of Wisconsin. We used these data to document trends in lawsuits, describe which patients were more likely to be sued, and analyze which hospitals were more likely to sue their patients.

Drawing on millions of court records of eviction cases filed between 2012 and 2016 in 39 states, this study documents the racial and gender demographics of America's evicted population. Black renters received a disproportionate share of eviction filings and experienced the highest rates of eviction filing and eviction judgment. Black and Latinx female renters faced higher eviction rates than their male counterparts. Black and Latinx renters were also more likely to be serially filed against for eviction at the same address. These findings represent the most comprehensive investigation to date of racial and gender disparities among evicted renters in the United States.

Does psychopathology develop as a function of the objective or subjective experience of childhood maltreatment? To address this question, we studied a unique cohort of 1,196 children with both objective, court-documented evidence of maltreatment and subjective reports of their childhood maltreatment histories made once they reached adulthood, along with extensive psychiatric assessment. We found that, even for severe cases of childhood maltreatment identified through court records, risk of psychopathology linked to objective measures was minimal in the absence of subjective reports. In contrast, risk of psychopathology linked to subjective reports of childhood maltreatment was high, whether or not the reports were consistent with objective measures. These findings have important implications for how we study the mechanisms through which child maltreatment affects mental health and how we prevent or treat maltreatment-related psychopathology. Interventions for psychopathology associated with childhood maltreatment can benefit from deeper understanding of the subjective experience. In a cohort of 1,196 children followed to age 29 years, the authors found that risk of psychopathology was more strongly associated with subjective recall of childhood maltreatment histories than with objective, court-documented evidence of maltreatment.