ZASCA-Sum : a dataset of the South Africa Supreme Court of Appeal judgments and media summaries for legal documents summarization research

This novel dataset comprises judgments from the South African Supreme Court of Appeal and their manually curated media summaries. It was collected from the court's official website, the dataset includes 4,171 judgments, of which 2,118 are paired with summaries. The judgments and summaries have been extracted and prepared to support legal document summarization tasks across supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised settings. The dataset, split into training, validation, and test sets, is made publicly available to encourage research in legal summarization.