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scripts/legal_citations.py
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"""Evidence-bound legal citation records; source selection and judgments stay model-led."""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import html
import json
import logging
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any
from urllib.parse import urlsplit
from jsonschema import Draft202012Validator, FormatChecker
from legal_documents import read_pack
__all__ = ["scaffold", "validate_citations", "render_citations", "main"]
LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
def _load(path: Path) -> Any:
return json.loads(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
def scaffold(
run_dir: Path, document_ids: list[str], scope: str, language: str = "it"
) -> Path:
"""Identify documents to inspect; imported authorities are registered separately."""
pack = read_pack(run_dir)
available = {s["id"] for s in pack["sources"]}
if (
not document_ids
or len(set(document_ids)) != len(document_ids)
or set(document_ids) - available
):
raise ValueError("Select distinct document IDs from the evidence pack.")
if not scope.strip() or language not in {"it", "en", "fr", "de", "es"}:
raise ValueError("State the verification scope and supported language.")
value = {
"schema_version": 1,
"language": language,
"scope": scope,
"inventory": {
source_id: {
"reviewed_anchors": [],
"limitations": ["Document citation inventory not yet reviewed."],
}
for source_id in document_ids
},
"authorities": [],
"claims": [],
"limitations": [],
}
target = run_dir / "citations.json"
with target.open("x", encoding="utf-8") as handle:
json.dump(value, handle, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2)
handle.write("\n")
return target
def validate_citations(run_dir: Path, value: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any]:
"""Check quotes, declared coverage and consistency, never legal truth."""
pack = read_pack(run_dir)
sources = {s["id"]: s for s in pack["sources"]}
schema = _load(Path(__file__).with_suffix(".schema.json"))
errors = [
f"{e.json_path}: {e.message}"
for e in Draft202012Validator(
schema, format_checker=FormatChecker()
).iter_errors(value)
]
if errors:
return {
"valid": False,
"inventory_complete": False,
"checks": [],
"errors": errors,
"limitations": [],
}
units = {
(s["id"], u["anchor"]): u["text"] for s in sources.values() for u in s["units"]
}
limits = list(value["limitations"])
def quote_matches(citation: dict[str, str], owner: str) -> None:
text = units.get((citation["source_id"], citation["anchor"]), "")
quote = " ".join(citation["quote"].split())
if not quote or quote not in " ".join(text.split()):
errors.append(f"{owner}: quotation not found at the cited anchor.")
def covered(source_id: str | None, anchors: list[str], owner: str) -> bool:
if source_id not in sources:
errors.append(f"{owner}: unknown source ID.")
return False
source = sources[source_id]
expected = {u["anchor"] for u in source["units"]}
if set(anchors) - expected:
errors.append(f"{owner}: unknown reviewed anchor.")
return bool(expected) and set(anchors) == expected and not source["error"]
inventory_complete = True
for source_id, record in value["inventory"].items():
full = covered(source_id, record["reviewed_anchors"], source_id)
if not full or record["limitations"]:
inventory_complete = False
limits.append(source_id + ": citation inventory incomplete.")
limits.extend(source_id + ": " + item for item in record["limitations"])
authorities = {a["id"]: a for a in value["authorities"]}
if len(authorities) != len(value["authorities"]):
errors.append("Authority IDs must be unique.")
fully_read = {}
for authority in value["authorities"]:
aid = authority["id"]
if authority["url"]:
url = urlsplit(authority["url"])
if (
url.scheme not in {"https", "http"}
or not url.hostname
or url.username
or url.password
):
errors.append(
f"{aid}: use a public HTTP(S) source URL without credentials."
)
if authority["access"] == "unavailable":
if authority["source_id"] is not None or authority["reviewed_anchors"]:
errors.append(
f"{aid}: an unavailable authority cannot claim inspected source material."
)
if not authority["limitations"]:
errors.append(f"{aid}: explain the source access limitation.")
fully_read[aid] = False
else:
fully_read[aid] = covered(
authority["source_id"], authority["reviewed_anchors"], aid
)
if authority["source_id"] in value["inventory"]:
errors.append(
f"{aid}: the document under review cannot verify its own citation."
)
limits.extend(aid + ": " + item for item in authority["limitations"])
ids = [c["id"] for c in value["claims"]]
if len(ids) != len(set(ids)):
errors.append("Claim IDs must be unique.")
checks = []
for claim in value["claims"]:
cid = claim["id"]
passage = claim["document_passage"]
if passage["source_id"] not in value["inventory"]:
errors.append(f"{cid}: claim is outside the selected document inventory.")
quote_matches(passage, cid)
authority_ids = [c["authority_id"] for c in claim["checks"]]
if len(set(authority_ids)) != len(authority_ids):
errors.append(f"{cid}: duplicate authority check.")
for check in claim["checks"]:
aid = check["authority_id"]
authority = authorities.get(aid)
if authority is None:
errors.append(f"{cid}: unknown authority {aid}.")
continue
for citation in check["passages"]:
if citation["source_id"] != authority["source_id"]:
errors.append(
f"{cid}/{aid}: cited passage belongs to another authority."
)
quote_matches(citation, cid + "/" + aid)
if authority["access"] == "unavailable" and (
check["passages"]
or check["identity"] != "unresolved"
or check["version"] != "unresolved"
or check["support"] != "unresolved"
):
errors.append(
f"{cid}/{aid}: inaccessible source cannot carry a verified judgment."
)
if (
any(
check[key] != "unresolved"
for key in ("identity", "version", "support")
)
and not check["passages"]
):
errors.append(
f"{cid}/{aid}: substantive source judgment needs inspected passages."
)
complete_source = (
authority["access"] == "full-text"
and fully_read[aid]
and not authority["limitations"]
)
if check["identity"] == "mismatch":
result = "wrong-identity"
elif check["version"] == "wrong-version":
result = "wrong-version"
elif (
check["identity"] != "matched"
or check["version"] != "applicable"
or not complete_source
):
result = "unverified"
else:
result = {
"supports": "supported",
"partial": "partial",
"contradicts": "not-supported",
"does-not-address": "not-supported",
"unresolved": "unverified",
}[check["support"]]
checks.append({"claim_id": cid, "authority_id": aid, "result": result})
return {
"valid": not errors,
"inventory_complete": inventory_complete and not errors,
"checks": checks,
"errors": errors,
"limitations": limits,
"meaning": "Recorded model judgments with mechanically checked source links and quotations; not certification of legal truth, source authenticity or completeness of research.",
}
def render_citations(run_dir: Path, review_path: Path) -> Path:
"""Publish the source-to-claim record, with unresolved access and versions visible."""
value = _load(review_path)
result = validate_citations(run_dir, value)
target = run_dir / "citations.html"
if target.exists():
number = 1
while (run_dir / f"previous-{number}-citations.html").exists():
number += 1
target.rename(run_dir / f"previous-{number}-citations.html")
(run_dir / "citations-validation.json").write_text(
json.dumps(result, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2) + "\n", encoding="utf-8"
)
if not result["valid"]:
raise ValueError("Invalid citation review: " + "; ".join(result["errors"]))
labels = _load(Path(__file__).with_name("legal_citations_labels.json"))[
value["language"]
]
esc = lambda text: html.escape(str(text), quote=True)
authorities = {a["id"]: a for a in value["authorities"]}
statuses = {
(c["claim_id"], c["authority_id"]): c["result"] for c in result["checks"]
}
rows = []
evidence_html = (
lambda c: f"<p>{esc(c['source_id'])} · {esc(c['anchor'])}</p><blockquote>{esc(c['quote'])}</blockquote>"
)
for claim in value["claims"]:
for check in claim["checks"]:
aid = check["authority_id"]
source = authorities[aid]
status = labels["results"][statuses[(claim["id"], aid)]]
judgments = " · ".join(
labels["judgments"][check[k]]
for k in ("identity", "version", "support")
)
rows.append(
f"<tr><th>{esc(claim['id'])}<p>{esc(claim['proposition'])}</p>{evidence_html(claim['document_passage'])}</th><td>{esc(source['citation'])}<p>{esc(labels['relevant_date'])}: {esc(claim['relevant_date'])}</p><p>{esc(judgments)}</p>{''.join(evidence_html(c) for c in check['passages'])}</td><td><strong>{esc(status)}</strong><p>{esc(check['reasoning'])}</p><p>{esc(claim['correction'])}</p></td></tr>"
)
register = []
for source in value["authorities"]:
link = (
f'<a href="{esc(source["url"])}" rel="noreferrer">{esc(source["citation"])}</a>'
if source["url"]
else esc(source["citation"])
)
register.append(
f"<li><strong>{esc(source['id'])}</strong> {link}<p>{esc(labels['access'][source['access']])} · {esc(labels['checked'])}: {esc(source['checked_at'])}</p><p>{esc(labels['version'])}: {esc(source['version'])}</p><p>{esc('; '.join(source['limitations']))}</p></li>"
)
page = f"""<!doctype html><html lang="{value['language']}"><meta charset="utf-8"><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"><title>{esc(labels['title'])}</title>
<style>body{{font:16px/1.6 'Instrument Sans',sans-serif;color:#172b4d;max-width:1200px;margin:40px auto;padding:0 24px}}h1,h2{{line-height:1.2}}h2{{margin-top:36px}}table{{width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px}}th,td{{border:1px solid #ccd5df;padding:14px;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;font-weight:400}}thead th{{font-weight:700}}blockquote{{margin:8px 0;white-space:pre-wrap}}.table{{overflow:auto}}a{{color:#145ca4}}p{{overflow-wrap:anywhere}}</style>
<main><h1>{esc(labels['title'])}</h1><p>{esc(value['scope'])}</p><p>{esc(labels['meaning'])}</p><p>{esc(labels['inventory_complete'] if result['inventory_complete'] else labels['inventory_partial'])}</p><div class="table"><table><thead><tr>{''.join('<th>'+esc(c)+'</th>' for c in labels['columns'])}</tr></thead><tbody>{''.join(rows)}</tbody></table></div>
<h2>{esc(labels['sources'])}</h2><ul>{''.join(register)}</ul><h2>{esc(labels['limits'])}</h2><ul>{''.join('<li>'+esc(item)+'</li>' for item in result['limitations'])}</ul>
<h2>{esc(labels['privacy_title'])}</h2><p>{esc(labels['privacy'])}</p></main></html>"""
target.write_text(page, encoding="utf-8")
return target
def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
parser.add_argument("command", choices=("scaffold", "render"))
parser.add_argument("--run-dir", type=Path, required=True)
parser.add_argument("--document", action="append", default=[])
parser.add_argument("--scope", default="")
parser.add_argument("--language", default="it")
parser.add_argument("--review", type=Path)
args = parser.parse_args(argv)
try:
target = (
scaffold(args.run_dir, args.document, args.scope, args.language)
if args.command == "scaffold"
else render_citations(
args.run_dir, args.review or args.run_dir / "citations.json"
)
)
LOGGER.info("%s", target)
return 0
except (OSError, ValueError, KeyError, TypeError) as error:
LOGGER.error("%s", error)
return 2
if __name__ == "__main__":
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format="%(message)s")
raise SystemExit(main())
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