Researching e-government services, I’ve just come across DirectionlessGov, a cheeky little utility that compares results from a search on DirectGov with results from a Google search for the same term on .gov.uk sites. According to the authors, “Our tests show that DirectionlessGov is much more effective at most common searches than DirectGov.” What they mean in fact is that you will generally get a more helpful result set using a Google site search of government sites (ie prefix the search terms with site:gov.uk) than you will by just searching within Directgov.
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The Insolvency Service has just launched a new Online Forms Service (using the domain insolvencydirect.gov.uk) which enables you to complete a bankruptcy application online. The service currently caters for the statement of affairs in a debtor’s petition and the preliminary information questionnaire which the official receiver may require once a bankruptcy order has been made.
A second edition of the Criminal Case Management Framework has recently been issued by the CJS. The Framework is a guide for operational practitioners on managing cases in the most effective and efficient way from pre-charge through to conclusion, describing case management procedures and the roles and responsibilities for operating them of administrative staff and of the defence. It also sets out the expectations of the judiciary. The online version is structured around “route maps” for the three types of case: guilty plea, not guilty plea and traffic cases. A pdf version can also be downloaded.
The Legal IT Forum bills itself as “The most important Legal IT event of the year strictly for IT Directors and Senior Professionals worldwide” – so most of us need not apply! This is not a plug for the event itself, but for the useful collection of articles on legal IT topics posted on its web pages. Latest articles cover bad business practice, electronic disclosure, disaster recovery, outsourcing legal services, the potential for legal XML and document management / electronic filing. Unfortunately the articles are not dated – a curious omission for a resource concerned in part with information management. So it is impossible to tell, when browsing the archives, how topical the articles are.
