In QUALITATIVE LEGAL RESEARCH, 'CODING' refers to:

1. CODING is the systematic process of labelling segments of qualitative data (interview transcripts, field notes, documents) to facilitate analysis. 2. STAGES (per Strauss/Corbin grounded theory): 3. (i) OPEN CODING — initial breakdown of data into discrete concepts; emerging themes; 4. (ii) AXIAL CODING — relating concepts and categories; identifying patterns; conditions, contexts, consequences; 5. (iii) SELECTIVE/THEORETICAL CODING — integrating around core categories. 6. TYPES of codes: DESCRIPTIVE (summarising content), IN VIVO (using participants' own words), INTERPRETIVE (researcher's analysis), PATTERN codes. 7. SOFTWARE: NVivo, Atlas.ti, MAXQDA support coding. 8. RELIABILITY checks: intercoder agreement (Krippendorff's alpha, Cohen's kappa). 9. Hence option B is correct. _Source: Legal Research Methodology + Jurisprudence — Coding in qualitative research methodology_