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Dec
16
Clementi Review
Filed Under Legal reform
Sir David Clementi’s Report of the Review of the Regulatory Framework for Legal Services in England and Wales was published on 15 December. Key proposals are:
A Legal Services Board – this will oversee the way the legal profession regulates lawyers
The Office for Legal Complaints - a new gateway for consumer complaints about all lawyers
Legal Disciplinary […]
By Nick Holmes, 16 December 2004
Dec
14
e-Government nearly on course
Filed Under Government
The Cabinet Office Autumn Performance Report states that 96% of government services will be available electronically by the end of 2005, with 75% of these services currently available. Many services are experiencing high annual growth rates:
67% of incorporations are now electronic, up 19% from the previous year.
Over 1.1 million Self Assessment tax returns for 2002-03 […]
By Nick Holmes, 14 December 2004
Dec
8
Holding your MP to account
Filed Under Democracy
Three sites that help you the citizen make sense of what your elected representatives are doing and hold them to account (in their own words):
TheyWorkForYou.comEverything MPs say in the House of Commons is recorded in a document called Hansard. TheyWorkForYou.com helps make sense of this vital democratic resource while allowing you to add comments and […]
By Nick Holmes, 8 December 2004
Dec
8
Parliament site sucks II
Filed Under Democracy
The start of the new Parliamentary session is a reminder just how awkward it is to monitor the progress of bills on the Parliament site. The Bills before parliament page summarises the position thus:
Public Bills before ParliamentThe page lists the titles of Public Bills currently before Parliament as well as Amendments to the Bill and […]
By Nick Holmes, 8 December 2004
Dec
5
First published December 2004 in Computers and Law
Lord Justice Brooke chaired the legendary “Free the Law” meeting at Chatham House in London which gave birth to the body we now know as BAILII. 1 November 2004 saw him again in the chair, this time to host a celebration of its first five years. He was […]
By Nick Holmes, 5 December 2004
Nov
19
Advice Services Alliance
Filed Under Law sites
The Advice Services Alliance is the umbrella body for independent advice services in the UK. Members are national networks of not-for-profit organisations providing advice and help on the law, access to services and related issues, including adviceuk, Age Concern England, Citizens Advice, Citizens Advice Northern Ireland, DIAL UK, Law Centres Federation, Scottish Association of Law […]
By Nick Holmes, 19 November 2004
Nov
3
Public sector information - exploiting the intellectual capital
Filed Under Public Sector Information
At a meeting on 1 November to celebrate 5 years of free law via BAILII, Richard Susskind outlined current developments regarding re-use of Public Sector Information (PSI). He chairs the Advisory Panel on PSI whose job is to advise the Government so that this asset is protected and exploited and its value is maximised. Central […]
By Nick Holmes, 3 November 2004
Nov
3
Three weblogs focussing on legal information management have been added to our blog links (bottom right) and are well worth bookmarking. Better still add their RSS feeds to your feedreader. [What’s RSS?]
Excited Utterances by Joy London, trainer at Allen & Overy, USA - on law firm knowledge management
Feedmelegal by a lawyer in private practice - […]
By Nick Holmes, 3 November 2004
Oct
26
A new name in UK law publishing
Filed Under Law publishing
On 20 October LexisNexis UK sold a portfolio of approximately 600 titles to Tottel Publishing, a company set up by Jim Smith, a former UK publishing director of LexisNexis Butterworths. The sale includes bound books and some 70 looseleaf works, journals and newsletters, as well as the entire Irish list and many of the titles […]
By Nick Holmes, 26 October 2004
Oct
22
BIALL has set up a Legal Online Resource Database - a register of all the online services provided by the mainstream commercial publishers. You can view the register by selecting title, host, subject, material type, or jurisdiction, or view a listing of what’s new. Records give a brief summary of coverage and link through to […]
By Nick Holmes, 22 October 2004