Firstly, they consider that this is because the two policies have a significant impact on the rights of individuals and on the relationship between the individual and the State; secondly, they consider that this is because policing and criminal law remain
anchored to State sovereignty and the monopole of enforcement exercised
by the States in these
domains.
Given that text documents are still very much the core material produced
by legal professionals, and that references to text documents will remain the basis for grounded and verifiable legal reasoning regardless of the actors and technologies employed, current generation standards in the legal
domain are providing a layered organization of their offerings: presentation - oriented XML is being replaced with structured XML with ample room for metadata and annotations; naming mechanisms based on URIs and IRIs provide linkable
anchors both to entire documents and to smaller fragments; and document - oriented ontologies provide the necessary glue between abstract legal reasoning and the textual pieces of supporting evidence.