HKJudge: A Legal Discourse-Annotated Corpus for Interpreting What Courts Find, How They Reason, and What They Rule

The HKJudge project introduces the first sentence-level, expert-annotated legal discourse corpus of Hong Kong criminal judgments, comprising approximately 290k sentences. It utilizes a two-tier discourse schema to identify what courts find, how they reason, and what they rule, with high inter-annotator agreement.