Sim-Court: A Simulation of Court using LLM-based Agents

THU 2024 Winter AML Submission18 Authors

Keywords: LLM-based Agent;Court Simulation;Legal trial

TL;DR: In this paper, we introduce a simulacrum of court called Sim-Court that simulates the entire process of court trial on both criminal and civil cases.

Abstract: Court trail has became a useful method to maintain justice and social stability throughout the world. However, the scarce legal resources and huge legal cases put extreme pressure on lawyers, judges, and the whole judicial system. An explainable, portable and efficient autonomous court trial needs to be built. In this paper, we introduce a simulacrum of court called Sim-Court that simulates the entire process of court trial on criminal cases. Our contributions lies in three aspect: (i) An easy-to-use agent framework for court simulation with carefully designed evaluation methods, providing a novel benchmark for LLM under legal scenarios. (ii) A more explicable legal case trial comparing to direct trail prediction methods, showing the advantages and value of this framework. (iii) A list of generated trail information and corresponding court record for facilitating further research on similar areas. Hopefully, Sim-court can paves the way for advancing applications of LLM-powered agent in legal scenarios. The full version is released at https://github.com/Miracle-2001/Sim-Court

Submission Number: 18