Automated legislation processing

with the LegalEyes Enhanced Legislation solution

Enhanced legislation solution

The automated modular system for identifying citations, comprehending editorial instructions and consolidating legislation

eyeCITE

Identifies citations, definitions and other elements in UK legislation.

eyeCOMPREHEND

Builds on eyeCITE to convert amendments, initial commencements and appointments into well-formed XML.

eyeCONSOLIDATE

Uses the XML generated by eyeCOMPREHEND to consolidate legal changes in a legislation repository.

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LegalEyes eyeCITE

What is eyeCITE?

eyeCITE is a modular value-adding parsing engine that incorporates automatic techniques to enhance legislation published in its original format. In the UK, this means legislation in the UK government's Crown Legislation Markup Language (CLML) published on www.legislation.gov.uk.

See eyeCITE in action

View eyeCITE-enhanced enactments by clicking below to browse recent documents then viewing the 'Full text' tab in each individual page.

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How does eyeCite improve a legislative text?

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Intra-document citations

Internal section and Schedule references are automatically identified and marked as hyperlinks.

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Inter-document citations

References to other statutes, even the smallest elements, are also identified and marked as hyperlinks.

3

Statutory definitions

Statutory definitions are identified and can be marked up as hyperlinks to their source.

These capabilities mean a reader can move through legislation in an intuitive way, following links to other enactments as they arise, and quickly see which terms have been defined by statute.

LegalEyes eyeCOMPREHEND

What is eyeCOMPREHEND?

eyeCOMPREHEND builds on the value added to a legislation document by eyeCITE. It identifies initial commencements, appointments and amendments, converting the English text into well-formed valid XML.

It captures the source and affected ends of each amendment, identfying definitions and headings as it does so. Where applicable, any introducing provisions are also captured so that a fully detailed annotation can be produced.

See eyeCOMPREHEND in action

Click below to see an example of the amendment XML generated automatically by eyeCOMPREHEND for an example enactment:

Example enactment

How does it work?

1

Find initial Commencements

The initial commencement days specified by an enactment are turned into commencement elements that contain the key dates and information for each commencement.

2

Find appointed days

Appointed days in an enactment are turned into appointment elements that contain the key dates and information for each appointment.

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Find amendments

Amendments made by a legislation document are identified and sufficient information is recorded to allow each to be consolidated in a legislation repository.

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Make amendment XML

Extracted amendments are converted into the following XML elements:

  • Enactment Repeal (also capable of supporting repeals and revocations subject to exceptions and exclusions).
  • Block Insert (contains the respective BlockAmendment elements).
  • Block Repeal
  • Block Substitution (contains the respective BlockAmendment elements).
  • Text Insert
  • Text Repeal
  • Text Substitution

LegalEyes eyeCONSOLIDATE

What is eyeCONSOLIDATE?

eyeCONSOLIDATE takes the amendment XML generated by eyeCOMPREHEND and passes it against a well-defined web service to consolidate legal changes in a legislation repository.

How does it work?

Each call contains sufficient information to consolidate the amendment into the amended legislation.

The target legislation repository needs to be able to support:

  • Resolving the target enactment based on title, year, series number and enactment class.
  • Resolving the target citation to the affected/source unit, heading (part or chapter), provision and sub-provision levels.
  • Resolving definitions and headings within each level of an enactment.
  • Implementing the various methods to apply amendments to each legislation document.
  • An optional capability to group amendments within 'activity lists'.
  • An optional capability to generate past and current views of a provision for editorial validation.

In order to make each call, a custom implementation of the consolidation service interface is written for the target legislation repository.

The core services allow for the amendments to be passed against this interface to consolidate all of the amendments.

LegalEyes Citation Map

What is the citation map?

The citation map demonstrates the power of the LegalEyes mark-up engine by showing how every enactment in the statute book refers to every other.

Search the citation map

See how the entire United Kingdom statute book is connected. Click on the 'Citation map' tab in any enactment.

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What's citing this document?

See what's happening to an enactment. Every piece of legislation which cites it is listed; the most recent first.

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What does this document cite?

See what a new enactment is affecting. Every piece of legislation cited by it is listed.

3

Changes over time

See how the number of references has changed over time. The number of references per year for period of up to fifty years is provided.

Legislation map alert

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Email alerts

Track changes to legislation. Register your email and set up a list of favourite enactments by clicking the 'Alert me' button for any enactment. You'll receive an email alert whenever something happens to an enactment on your list.

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