This is actually one of the things AI is currently being developed for, and may not be that far off. Again, it won't be reasoning as we understand it, more a se

This is actually one of the things AI is currently being developed for, and may not be that far off. Again, it won't be reasoning as we understand it, more a set of state tables that allow inferences. But people are definitely trying to develop AI that can take a description of an event, and break it down into legal concepts such as "who was at fault here?"