Frequently asked questions
What is Hukukça?
Hukukça is an open-source index of legal opinions about current legal events. It gets its data from 2 kinds of sources: opinions submitted through the portal by legal professionals who join Hukukça, and opinions that legal professionals state publicly online.
How does Hukukça tell whether a member is a lawyer?
A member's vote can count only after their legal qualification is verified. The only method currently supported is for lawyers to join with the email address shown in their bar record.
Can I audit the verification process myself?
Yes. Hukukça uses GCS (Google Confidential Space) for the email-verification and voting steps. You can check these steps through the verification evidence on the lawyer's page and the technical evidence next to their votes. You can also download the raw records and check them with the open-source verifier. To verify that the email address matches the bar record, you can use the TBB Lawyer Search link.
How does Hukukça tell whether an opinion collected online is from a legal professional?
Hukukça cannot verify that these opinions were stated by legal professionals. It always identifies their sources, however. You can review where an opinion came from and how it was interpreted.
Can I review the legal opinions collected online?
Yes. Open the "Sources" link on any case page to see the source and quotation for each opinion, the answer it was classified under, and the classification confidence when available.
How are the index scores calculated?
Each individual legal opinion counts as 1 vote, each bar-association opinion as 3 votes, and an opinion of the Union of Turkish Bar Associations as 8 votes. A choice's score is its share of all weighted votes. and online opinions duplicated by the same lawyer's portal vote are excluded. Scores are hidden until there are at least 10 counted opinions for a main question or 50 for a side question.
Where can I find the source code?
The source code is not public yet. The website, the country-agnostic Konsensus frontend, the GCS-based registration and voting system, and the offline evidence verifier are being prepared in separate repositories. Links will be added to this page when they are published.
Can I check that the running site matches the published source code?
Yes. For each release, Hukukça publishes the Git revision in its source record and the built-file digests in its build record. Once the source is published, you can compare the Git revision with the code and the file digests with your own build. These records are self-reported by the site and are not independent proof by themselves.