Wikidata:Property proposal/intervener

intervener

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   Under discussion

Description	name of a third-party group or person allowed to participate in a legal case
Represents	intervention (Q2292948)
Data type	Item
Domain	human (Q5), organization (Q43229)
Example 1	York University v Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Q108085698)→QThe Writers' Union of Canada (Q8038449)
Example 2	CCH Canadian Ltd. v. Law Society of Upper Canada (Q5009584)→QAccess Copyright (Q4672434)
Example 3	Eurobank Ergasias S.A. v. Bombardier inc. (Q125349256)→QCanadian Bankers Association (Q1032046)
Source	https://www.scc-csc.ca/case-dossier/info/search-recherche-eng.aspx, e.g. https://www.scc-csc.ca/case-dossier/info/af-ma-eng.aspx?cas=39856
Planned use	To create a Wikidata project for Canadian Supreme Court cases and to start populating SCC entries with this property
Number of IDs in source	"Interveners make submissions in about half of the cases heard by the Supreme Court of Canada" (https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1086&context=ohlj)
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Implied notability	Wikidata property for an identifier that suggests notability (Q62589316)
See also	plaintiff (P1620), defendant (P1591)

Motivation

Half of Supreme Court of Canada decisions are made with third-parties called interveners and it has even been said that you can tell how important a case by the number of interveners allowed to weigh in on a pending legal decision (https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4029&context=scholarly works) The role of interveners are of great interest to legal scholars, political scientists, and activists. At present, legal cases allow for a plaintiff and a respondent to be properties of a legal case, but not third party intervenes who are also allowed to present documents to the court. Interveners should be considered an 'input' to a legal decision and not an 'outcome' and as such, they don't belong as 'part of' a decision of the judges. Happy to clarify any of the above. Note: I've asked WikiProject Canadian law for comment. Copystar (talk) 21 April 2024 (UTC)