(We have an actual law that says: 'Each Dutch citizen is expected to know the law'. I know, I know, it makes judges and lawyers look pretty redundant and silly.)
Is this supposed, perhaps, to be equivent to
ignorantia juris non excusat? i.e. that you cannot claim innocence by not knowing that your crime was a crime. (Though if it can be shown that it would be unreasonable to have known, it
might get you some drastic mitigation in sentencing, depending upon many other factors.)
Though encyclopedic knowledge of case-law is the province of the people that get paid for it (and that seems to be where Westlaw and Ross (and lawyers in general!) are competing), the core statutes from which the merits of the cases get interpreted remain open-access (at least in theory, however impenetrable the words are) Though these are perhaps less useful as AI training material, as you need to build up associations like "nine times out of ten, an appeal with <certain considerations> will succeed", etc, which is like an AI reviewing many chess matches, rather than merely trying to parse the single set of rules and regulations that define how any particular match might happen.
It also sounds very much like going into an all-you-can-eat buffet (presuming the Westlaw subscription allowed unlimited access to as much information as the legally-curious might wish) but instead of gorging oneself, opening the window and passing as much as was available out to be served at pop-up street cafe. At the very least, going against the spirit of the original access (which, for even a non-AI version of the scheme, would amount to unauthorised and prohibited subscription-sharing), probably also breaking further seperate regulations (equivalent to not ensuring allergy information and anti-allergy segregation is maintained, plus other hygene precautions such as making sure nothing sits around too long, raw salads and cooked meat being kept in close proximity, etc) by representing an unqualified 'legalBot' output to be just as accurately curated and presented as the original material which was courtesy of at least some level of actual legal training.
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