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Improve citation resolving for documents with citations to caselaw and legislation from foreign jurisdictions #1068

Open NotoriousMBB opened 1 year ago

NotoriousMBB commented 1 year ago

Citations currently are agnostic and resolve to the website the document is part of, e.g. https://lawlibrary.org.za/akn/za/doc/guide/2023-03-01/a-practical-approach-to-evidence-for-judicial-officers/eng@2023-03-01

longhotsummer commented 1 year ago

There are two issue at play here:

  1. citation extraction for acts doesn't differentiate between different countries (ie. "Act 7 of 2009" will always be for the current document's country).
  2. correctly extracted citations to foreign documents result in a 404, because the document isn't on the current site. This will be resolved by the new resolver that will come out of #498

Let's keep this issue open to address number 1 above.