Mar

24

WikiCrimeLine

Filed Under Wikis

WikiCrimeLine is a new project, set up as part of the CrimeLine family of free updating materials. Publisher and WikiCrimeLine Administrator Andrew Keogh says:
I wish to take CrimeLine one step further and gather up the extensive knowledge base that exists with our almost 8,000 members. This is your unique opportunity to share your knowledge of […]

By Nick Holmes, 24 March 2006

Mar

24

OPSI discussion forum

Filed Under Public Sector Information

OPSI has added a Discussion Forums area to its website. The first to be set up is “Website Help” which is for discussion of problems, issues and tips on using the OPSI website.
They may regret this! Half of the posts so far are from members of the public seeking advice about specific statutory provisions:

Act Enactment
“Can […]

By Nick Holmes, 24 March 2006

Mar

22

Web-enabled document management system

Filed Under Information management

An innovative and unique new online document management service, General Counsel Direct, has just been launched. GCD allows businesses to upload all crucial documentation so that officers, advisors and business partners and relevant employees can retrieve it with a web browser. By establishing user privileges, specific workgroups can collaborate through the internet on clients or […]

By Nick Holmes, 22 March 2006

Mar

16

Blog comings and goings

Filed Under Law blogs

Since January Jolyon Patten of Halliwells has been blogging on insurance and reinsurance matters at Re Risk. This is a continuation of his former blog for Elborne Michell, iNews: Lex in the City. Elbornes appears to have expunged the blog from their site. Not so the Wayback Machine which retains archives to March 2005.
Diary of […]

By Nick Holmes, 16 March 2006

Mar

10

Today we Googled “the man on the Clapham omnibus”

Filed Under Miscellany

Question. I have been seeking for a long time now the details of the case where a reasonable man is defined as “the man on the Clapham Omnibus”.
Answer. First use of the phrase is attributed to Lord Justice Greer, in Hall v. Brooklands Auto Racing Club (1933) 1 KB 205, at p 224. The facts […]

By Nick Holmes, 10 March 2006

Mar

8

The Next Ten Years according to Susskind

Filed Under Future of law

In his SCL 2006 Lecture Richard Susskind predicted that the pace of development in the coming decade will be more profound than during the last. Emerging technologies would enable transformations in the nature of legal service, the way lawyers work, relationships between lawyers and their clients, legal training and learning and dispute resolution.
He sees an […]

By Nick Holmes, 8 March 2006