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Jun
29
The SSCSC website was relaunched 23 June. Using the site you can find out how to appeal and download the necessary forms; check up on recent cases and other developments; search for decisions; and consult basic cases and directions on practice and procedure.
Social Security and Child Support Commissioners
The site uses a template which has been […]
By Nick Holmes, 29 June 2004
Jun
29
Further to the last post, according to the DCA:
our replacement [editorial] system went live … last week and we are busy converting in excess of 27,000 documents to XML format. We are also working with a supplier [TSO] to develop the enquiry service database that we expect to be able to pilot, within the Government […]
By Nick Holmes, 29 June 2004
Jun
25
Recent reports emanating from a KableNET.com news story suggest that “the Department for Constitutional Affairs is planning a new online database of UK primary and secondary legislation”. Informed observers will know that the Statute Law Database has been just around the corner since at least 1998. In fact the news is that TSO (formerly The […]
By Nick Holmes, 25 June 2004
Jun
25
The establishment professes to be quite happy with Tesco’s new Legal Store which supplies LawPack self-help books and book/CD kits for common legal issues, providing quick Q&A advice and a jargon buster online and referring users on to the Law Society’s Solicitors Online site for further advice. Tesco ‘wants to demystify the law by offering […]
By Nick Holmes, 25 June 2004
Jun
21
Government plans online shop
Filed Under Government
The government is to offer a one-stop shop on the internet for all the services it offers citizens, aiming to put all its service online by 2005 with one central site for people to interact electronically with officials. The current UK Online serice has been deliberately designed to get citizens in and out as quickly […]
By Nick Holmes, 21 June 2004
Jun
21
Parliament site sucks say users
Filed Under Democracy
The UK Parliament’s website needs a radical overhaul as there is widespread dissatisfaction among users, a select committee of MPs said on 16 June 2004. While the site has received praise as an example of open and accessible government, the committee found that people often had difficulty finding the answers even to simple questions: the […]
By Nick Holmes, 21 June 2004
Jun
11
Directories of Online Law Journals
Filed Under General resources
Lund University Libraries last week launched phase 2 of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The new version of DOAJ now includes records at article level and a search functionality allowing users to search articles in potentially all Open Access Journals. The Directory aims to increase the visibility and ease of use of open […]
By Nick Holmes, 11 June 2004
Jun
10
Parliament: Breathing new life into Hansard
Filed Under Democracy
A new website that allows voters to search and annotate the text of parliamentary debates has been launched by a team of volunteer programmers. TheyWorkForYou.com is the fruit of nine months’ work by a loose group of e-democracy activists whose aim is to breathe new life into Hansard. It does this by “scraping” the content […]
By Nick Holmes, 10 June 2004
Jun
4
Punctuation and plain English for lawyers
Filed Under Miscellany
Punctuation is a touchy subject for some lawyers of the old school; indeed good legal drafting was based on the premise that one should not use puntuation at all. Thankfully, most have deserted that position and would agree that punctuation “has always been offered in a spirit of helpfulness, to underline meaning and prevent awkward […]
By Nick Holmes, 4 June 2004
Jun
4
e-Envoy out; e-Government Unit in
Filed Under Government
On 3 June the Office of the e-Envoy metamorphosed into the e-Government Unit of the Cabinet Office (with some functions transferred to the Treasury Office of Government Commerce) in preparation for Ian Watmore taking up the headship of the unit in September. Andrew Pinder, the former e-Envoy, exited with the job done:
“96% of the population […]
By Nick Holmes, 4 June 2004