license: cc-by-4.0
The Sheria Corpus v1 is a curated collection of Kenyan legal case summaries from both the High Court and the Supreme Court, organized to support legal research, data analysis, and natural language processing applications in the legal domain. For complete access of the dataset, visit http://datalab.datawiseafrica.com/
Contents: Case metadata: Includes case number, case name, category (e.g., Judgement, Ruling), and decision date.
Court details: Name, level (High or Supreme Court), location, and judges involved.
Legal categorization: Filing county, legal domain (e.g., Civil, Family, Commercial), and case outcome.
Textual sections:
Summary Text: A brief overview (where available).
Introduction and Background: Describes the origins of the case.
Analysis and Determination: Legal reasoning and final judgment.
Additional metadata: Parties involved, media-neutral citation, case URL from Kenya Law, etc.