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Nov
25
B is for … | C is for …
Filed Under Pages on the Web
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, November 2001
BAILII
BAILII (www.bailii.org) should now be a familiar name to all. If not to you, then go to Laurie West-Knights pages at www.lawonline.cc/ukileli.htm for a run-down (he, the driving force behind it). A full transcript of the recent ‘Freeing the Law’ meeting is published there […]
By Nick Holmes, 25 November 2001
Oct
25
A is for …
Filed Under Pages on the Web
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, October 2001
Advertising
Circa the year 2000 (or Y2K as we then knew it) the web was all about advertising. Here’s the way it turned out for some. Scenario 1: Have an idea; do persuasive business plan; raise £millions from easy-to-persuade venture capitalists and public; spend £millions […]
By Nick Holmes, 25 October 2001
Sep
25
In too deep
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A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, September 2001
I have busied myself recently with the redesign and relaunch of the infolaw website. The main purpose of the site, since its inception in February 1995, has always been to provide ready access to free UK legal resources on the web – a portal […]
By Nick Holmes, 25 September 2001
Sep
5
First published in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers, September 2001.
The public provision of law on the web leaves much to be desired:
it is not comprehensive
it is not “joined up”
it is not easily accessible.
This article takes stock of the current position and looks at ongoing initiatives to improve it. It refers in the main to primary […]
By Nick Holmes, 5 September 2001
Jul
25
Accessible law?
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A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, July 2001
I first read about the web in an article in the Guardian in December 1993. This was just the ticket. Built on the internet – a network of networks that could connect everybody together – the enticing thing about the web (which in technical […]
By Nick Holmes, 25 July 2001
Jun
25
e-Government beckons
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A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, June 2001
The Office of the e-Envoy (www.e-envoy.gov.uk) is leading the drive to get the UK online, to ensure that the country, its citizens and its businesses derive maximum benefit from the knowledge economy.
The Government’s programme to ensure that the UK is a world leader in […]
By Nick Holmes, 25 June 2001
May
25
Free legal web services
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A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, May 2001
Last month we looked at the extent to which you might meet prospective clients’ expectations for free online legal advice and information. Let’s turn the tables and see what legal information you can reasonably expect to be provided free on the web.
A public service?
The […]
By Nick Holmes, 25 May 2001
Apr
25
Providing free legal advice
Filed Under Pages on the Web
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, April 2001
The culture of the internet is such that expectations are that most information is free. But these expectations also extend beyond information to just about anything that can be delivered over the internet: including advice, documents, software to name but a few.
But if your […]
By Nick Holmes, 25 April 2001
Mar
25
Government portals | Web design sins
Filed Under Pages on the Web
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, March 2001
Government portals
Last month’s review of UK legal portals would not be complete without covering government sites. While designed for the citizen rather than the lawyer, government portals provide access to so much information vital to lawyering that they are an essential legal research tool. […]
By Nick Holmes, 25 March 2001
Mar
5
Published in P.S., the journal of Probate Section, March 2001
Parts of this article also appeared in previous Pages on the Web in the Solicitors Journal
There are now well over 1,000 firms of solicitors in England and Wales with websites and an increasing number of other legal advice sites competing for your business. It is now […]
By Nick Holmes, 5 March 2001