An updated version of AKOMA NTOSO schema has been released. The updates were made by Fabio Vitali and Monica Palmirani. This release contains modifications regarding mainly the handling of judgements, its metadata and few of them affect the document content. Many of the modifications are NOT backward-compatible.

Here in brief are the changes made:

• A new inline element, docketNumber, has been introduced to handle the specification of the docket number, case number, file number or in general any number that represents the overall procedure of which this is one document.
• Speech-related containers such as administrationOfOaths, declarationOfVote, etc. have been added to the list of containers that can be specified anywhere.
• Element lawyer has a few difference in its attributes: the attribute represents has become for, and a new attribute empoweredBy has been added for lawyers that receive the representation not directly from the client but indirectly through a delegation of power via another lawyer.
• Element opinion, wrapping the opinion of the judges in a judgement, has a new attribute type that specifies whether each individual judge consents or dissents from the judgement.
• The element workflow has been clarified. A workflow is not composed of action elements anymore, but of step elements. Each step element defines (references to instances of) a date, an actor (either a TLCPerson or a TLCOrganization), a role (a TLCRole), and an outcome (a TLCConcept).
• A new analysis container has been added for judicial analysis. The judicial element contains one result element that specifies the actual result of the judgment (one of deny, dismiss, uphold, revert, replaceOrder, remit, decide, and approve), and as many elements as needed of the judicial argument category, which are: supports, isAnalogTo, applies, extends, restricts, derogates, contrasts, overrules, dissentsFrom, putsInQuestion, distinguishes.

See here for more information and documentation. http://www.akomantoso.org/