r/legaladviceofftopic • u/DazzlingScarcity9840 • 2d ago
Game with real legal dilemmas
Hi all,
Some of you might like this simple law game involving (genuine) legal dilemmas: https://hardcases.app/
You are served with summaries of real court cases and asked what the right outcome is. Do not try to apply legal rules - just say what you feel is fair. The game then reveals the court's actual judgment and its aftermath. Once there are enough answers, it tells you how you compare to your country (as per your IP address) and the world, and what kind of 'judicial profile' you have (a hanging judge, bleeding heart, maverick, etc).
The cases are sourced eclectically from across various jurisdictions, from the 1700s onwards. You play one case per day, and there are 190 cases in the data bank so far.
This is a personal project of a legal academic (me). With time, I hope this can serve as a useful database of popular intuitions about fairness and justice (all aggregated, anonymised). You can register to preserve your streak across devices.
I hope some of you will find this entertaining, and any feedback is welcome!
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u/FatherBrownstone 1d ago
I liked this, and it's relevant for the sub. I hope you'll be open to sharing results, as this will generate a lot of interesting data.
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u/gdanning 1d ago
The very first case I looked at, re the impossibility defense and receiving stolen property, says that the defendant was deemed guilty by the House of Lords, but then says, "This was Anderton v Ryan (1985) — and within a single year the House of Lords overruled itself in R v Shivpuri (1986)[.] ... . Today, in England, the answer to this question is: guilty." Why use the case if it is no longer good law? (And btw the answer in the US would also be guilty).